The Supreme Court has cleared the way for Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) to implement a 25 percent hike inwater price that it fixed earlier.

A tenth grader was allegedly raped by a youth in Kabirhat upazila of Noakhali.

The average life expectancy of Bangladeshis has increased to 72.6 years in 2019, as compared to 72.3 years in 2018, according to a report of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).

The government will convert a temporary ordinance into a permanent law in order to continue operating virtual court systems after the Covid-19 pandemic, said Law Minister Anisul Huq.

The final results of the 38th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examinations will be published today.

Bangladesh plans to redesign its incentive package to draw foreign direct investments (FDI) to negate the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the national economy, keeping an extra eye out on prospective sources in the South-East, officials said.

While airlifting a launch around twelve hours after it capsized on the Buriganga river, rescue workers recovered a man who swam up from the capsize site.

Two minor boys drowned in a pond at Gilabari village in Aditmari upazila on Sunday.

Tourism-related set-ups including hotels and motels in Kuakata will reopen for visitors tomorrow, after a closure imposed by the administration three and a half months ago due to the outbreak of Covid-19.

Galachipa upazila project implementation officer (PIO) has allegedly demanded Tk 4 lakh as bribe from a contractor when the latter applied for a final bill after completion of the construction work of a culvert in Dakua union.

The Teesta has continued devouring homesteads, arable lands and orchards at Char Gokunda, a river basin village in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila during the last one week.

State Minister for Power Nasrul Hamid today told the parliament that the government has taken six measures to collect the due electricity bills through a quick correction of the inflated power bills.

As the coronavirus pandemic rages on, causing classrooms to stay closed, online education becomes more imperative. Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) acting Vice Chancellor Professor Milan Pagon in a recent interview with The Daily Star said that online education is much more than just emailing educational material to students and he was sceptical about the ability of many Bangladeshi universities to offer proper online education.

The government will give Tk 10,000 as grants to 1,500 journalists at the first stage during the ongoing coronavirus period, Information Minister Hasan Mahmud told parliament today.

After three years of pressing the first charge sheet, members of the elite force Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-7) on Monday pressed its second charge sheet against 10 people including Nur Mohammed, Chairman of Khan Jahan Ali Group, and his brother Mostaq Ahmed, under the Special Powers Act in a much-talked-about cocaine haul case filed with Bandar Police Station on June 28, 2015.

Saying that her government has taken various measures for ensuring treatment of Covid-19 patients, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told the parliament today that her government will soon recruit 2,000 more doctors and 4,000 nurses to strengthen the health sector.

The government has decided to appoint former Inspector General of Police Dr Mohammad Javed Patwary as the next ambassador of Bangladesh to Saudi Arabia.

Roads and Highway Department (RHD) has restricted vehicular movement on one of the four lanes of the busy First Bangladesh-China Friendship (Buriganga-1) bridge in Postogola since 6:00pm, as a crack developed after a rescue ship hit the bridge today noon.

Professor Shamsuzzaman Khan has been appointed as the chairman of Bangla Academy for the next three years.

Ignoring health directives to contain the spread of Covid-19, several thousands of people thronged the Sadarghat area today to witness the rescue operations of the launch capsize.