A Tk 26.69 crore newly constructed building of Thakurgaon Sadar Hospital is lying unused as the hospital authority has refused to take it from the Public Works Department (PWD) citing several ‘faults’ that might hinder the medical care giving process.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina accuses Khaleda Zia of paving the way for HM Ershad to take over power in 1982 and enjoying various facilities from the former military ruler.

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader hands over a letter to speaker of the parliament requesting her to appoint Raushan Ershad as leader of the opposition in the House.

A Jashore court places three accused on a three-day remand each in a case filed over raping a woman in Jashore on September 3.

Biswajit Chanda, a teacher of Law & Land Administration department at Rajshahi University, has been recognised as the best professor for his outstanding performance in Land Administration Studies.

Science and Technology Affairs Minister Yeafesh Osman says that the installation cost of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) is higher than that of India as Bangladesh is new to implement such a power plant.

The Ministry of Home Affairs opposes a proposal to include Battalion Ansar in anti-drug drives saying that the force is not a “law enforcement agency”.

The government is going to amend the Companies Act, 1994 incorporating a provision for establishing company by a single person and a new section titled as “One Person Company” will be included in the amended law.

Barrister Mainul Hosein, former adviser to a caretaker government, is released from jail in a case filed by journalist Masuda Bhatti for defaming her in October last year.

BNP will form human chain programmes in Dhaka on September 11 and across the country on September 12 to press home its demand for immediate release of its imprisoned Chairperson Khaleda Zia.

Education Minister Dipu Moni hopes that all public universities would introduce a uniform admission test system by next year.

A total of 246 people are killed and 97 injured in lightning strikes across the country in last seven months this year, says a press release.

An exciting boat race has been held on the Kaliganga river at Balirtek area in Manikganj Sadar.

The online application process for admission into the first year honours programmes in Chittagong University under 2019-2020 academic session began.

Two dengue patients die in Dhaka and Khulna. Of the deceased, Nasima Akter, 48, a resident of the capital’s Shewrapara area, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital around 9:30am.

A section of Jahangirnagar University (JU) teachers observes work abstention protesting alleged corruption of the authorities and unplanned development work on the campus.

An alleged drug peddler is killed in a reported gunfight with police in Sadar upazila of Mymensingh.

Transport owners in Chattogram division call off their indefinite strike, around 10 hours after they enforced the strike to press home their nine-point demands including to stop allegedly harassment and extortion by law enforcers.

A Bangladeshi PhD student is shot dead in a robbery at a gas station in Louisiana of the United States.

At least 18 people have been injured in an explosion at a hotel in Gazipur. “Due to the explosion, two hotels and a branch of a private bank, were badly damaged,” a fire service official said.