Today, August 1, is the 49th anniversary of the Concert for Bangladesh. The concert was organised by former The Beatles member George Harrison, along with Pandit Ravi Shankar, and was held at the Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Eid-ul-Azha, the festival of sacrifice, is being celebrated in Bangladesh as the country grapples with the Covid-19 outbreak and floods inflict untold sufferings to hundreds of thousands of people.

The month of mourning begins today for the nation to recall the brutal assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members on the night of August 15, 1975, the ugliest chapter in the nation’s history, and renew the pledge to safeguard the country’s independence and sovereignty.

Five local dailies in Chattogram, including the Dainik Azadi, one of the oldest newspapers in Bangladesh, have suspended their publication following a siege programme by journalists demanding full payment of the Eid bonus.

Bangladesh’s GDP which was enjoying an exponential growth of 8.15 percent would be slowing down significantly due to Covid-19. According to the Economist Intelligence unit (EIU), the decline of GDP could lower down to 4 percent. The hardest hit would be the small business sector. This sector contributes 20.25 percent in our GDP growth and accounts for 35-40 percent of our employment. Hence the government and private sector has to take special steps for survival of small enterprises/businesses.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called upon the countrymen to be imbued with the spirit of Eid-ul-Azha and to participate in welfare-oriented activities to establish a discrimination-free, happy, prosperous and peaceful Bangladesh.

Awami League’s Faridpur town unit president Nazmul Islam Khandaker was held today in connection with money laundering.

Five people drowned as a boat carrying them capsized in a beel (water body) in Sarail upazila of Tangail this afternoon.

Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a $200 million financing package with Reliance Bangladesh LNG and Power Limited (RBLPL) to build and operate a 718MW gas-fired power plant in Bangladesh.

Head-on collision between a private car and a covered-van killed three and injured three others at the Nundah Bridge (Baluaya) area on the Rangpur-Dhaka highway under Gobindaganj area of Gaibandha. The accident occurred around 4:30 am.

Three people including two garment workers have been killed and three others injured as a bus hit a rented car on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Habiganj district.

Three alleged yaba smugglers have been killed in a "gunfight" with police in Chokoria upazila of Cox's Bazar.

Police have recovered the bodies of a couple and their three-year-old child from their house in Mathbaria upazila of Pirojpur.

An assistant professor of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) and her husband have been arrested for abusing their 12-year-old domestic help in Sylhet city last night.

Eid holidaymakers have stuck at Paturia ferry ghat in Manikganj as they are caught in a 20km long tailback due to heavy pressure of vehicles ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, to be celebrated tomorrow.

Five people, including four members of a family, were killed and another was critically injured as a bus crashed into a private car on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Sylhet’s Osmaninagar upazila early today.

After more than four months of closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic, lower courts across the country are going to resume regular functions from August 5.

Three people, including two of a family, drowned in different upazilas of Pabna and Kurigram on Wednesday and the day before.

A housewife was killed allegedly by her husband over family feud at Purbo Bolipara in Khagrachhari’s Ramgarh upazila on Tuesday.

Smuggled Indian cattle are being taken to local markets in large numbers in Nilphamari’s Dimla upazila and adjacent areas for sale as sacrificial animals before Eid-ul-Azha.