The 21st session of the BIMSTEC Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) comprising foreign secretaries of the member states will be held virtually in Colombo, Sri Lanka on September 2.

Internet services across the country resumed today after 12 hours of disruption due to damage done by an excavator to the country's second submarine cable line yesterday.

The Ministry of Food and the World Food Programme today formalised the inclusion of fortified rice in the Open Market Sales (OMS) which will directly benefit about 720,000 people in 144,000 households.

The police superintendent of Cox’s Bazar must also be brought to book, RAOWA Chairperson and General Secretary Major Khandaker Nurul Afser during a meeting with journalists at the former residence of slain ex-Major Sinha Rashed Md Khan has said.

A Jubo League leader and his assistant were arrested on Saturday on charges of assaulting Amtali Upazila Nirbahi Officer and obstructing the officer from discharging government duties.

A Dhaka court has placed Regent Hospital Chairman Mohammad Shahed on a seven-day remand in a case filed over the misappropriation of Tk 2.71 crore of Farmers Bank Ltd.

A Cox’s Bazar court grants bail to Shahedul Islam Shifat, who was present when retired Major Sinha was shot, in two cases filed with Teknaf Police Station.

Seventeen more Bangladeshi Tabligh Jamaat members, including eight women, returned home last night after languishing in an Indian jail for 40 days.

Two employees of a hospital have been killed when their motorcycle hit a stationed truck on the Satkhira-Khulna regional highway in Tala upazila of Satkhira.

Senior District Judge of Dinajpur Aziz Ahmed and his wife Moushumi Akhter, who tested positive for Covid-19, have been airlifted from Dinajpur to Dhaka.

A 116-metre-long metal bridge on Pakhimara canal, in Nilganj union of Kalapara upazila, collapsed on August 5. The bridge was the only means of communications for inhabitants of at least five adjoining villages.

It has been a good time for lemon farmers as they are getting fair prices of the fruit amid the pandemic. The growers in Sreemangal upazila are largely dependent on lemon farming.

The power lines hanging dangerously low over the waterbodies and now flooded places in Tangail have turned into death traps.

Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque says the government will review the overall situation, including the flood’s impact on Aush and Aman paddy, before importing rice.

The Supreme Court has adjourned for two weeks the hearing on a petition filed by Sikder Group Managing Director Ron Haque Sikder and his brother Dipu Haque Sikder, seeking its permission to challenge a High Court order.

Rights activists, left-leaning politicians and civil society members today called upon the government to bring constitutional change recognising the country’s ethnic minorities as ‘indigenous’.

The Ministry of Education is going to prepare a list of senior professors of public universities so that they can select names from the list to recommend them to the president for appointment as vice-chancellors and pro-vice-chancellors.

Chehlum of Latifur Rahman, the late chairman and managing director of Transcom Group, was held at his Gulshan home after Maghrib prayers today.

Over 500 people from the Santal community in Gobindaganj upazila of Gaibandha district observed the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples today with elaborate programmes.

A tribunal in Dhaka today fixed September 2 for hearing on charge framing against 25 accused in connection with the killing of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) student Abrar Fahad in October last year.