The construction work of the Padma bridge will be completed within the next year, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says.

Three suspected criminals have been killed in separate “gunfights” with law enforcers in Chattogram, Cumilla and Gazipur districts of the country.

A college boy was found murdered at Gobra-Narail road in Dhopakhola area of Narail Sadar upazila yesterday morning.

The throat-slit body of a truck driver was found in Satmile area near Kazi Nazrul Islam College in Jashore Sadar upazila yesterday.

Speakers at a dialogue on ‘Rights of indigenous people and Dalits in the context of SDGs’ on Tuesday urged taking proper steps for development of the country’s ethnic minority peoples and backward Dalit community.

Two minor cousins drowned in a pond in Kishoreganj’s Bajitpur upazila on Tuesday.

A number of affluent people in Jashore’s Narayanpur union have received rice under the vulnerable group feeding (VGF) programme.

Students of two government primary schools boycotted their classes and jointly formed a human chain on Itbaria road in Kalapara upazila headquarters yesterday, demanding immediate arrest and exemplary punishment of the attackers of their two teachers.

The recent prolonged flood has damaged sugarcane on 591 acres of land under the mill zone areas of Rangpur Sugar Mills that will adversely affect sugar production in the next crushing season 2019-20.

Monsoon is the time when floating guava markets on canals crisscrossing thousands of guava orchards, in Jhalakathi’s Bhimruli and Pirojpur’s Atghar Kuriana under Nesarabad upazila, become alive with visitors from all over the country.

Educational activities at Tepibari High School in Bhuapur upazila of Tangail is hampered as the schoolhouse has turned risky due to serious damage caused by the recent floods.

The High Court (HC) has granted permanent bail to Tanzila Haque Chowdhury Mitu in a case filed for provoking her husband Mustafa Murshed Akash, to suicide, clearing the way of her walk out of jail.

Three people, including a garment worker, died of dengue today, bringing the unofficial death toll from the disease to 121 this year.

The Anti-Corruption Commission produces before the High Court the names and other relevant particulars of its 11 officials who were investigating 26 corruption cases in which jute mill worker Jaha Alam was wrongly implicated and suffered in jail for three years.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said all the television (TV) channels are enjoying complete freedom in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh will brief the diplomats stationed in Dhaka about the latest situation over the Rohingya issue tomorrow as two consecutive efforts to begin the repatriation of the displaced people failed amid their unwillingness and trust-deficit among them.

The High Court will deliver a verdict tomorrow on the bail petition filed by Aysha Siddika Minni in a case filed over the murder of her husband Rifat Sharif.

The High Court directs the public administration secretary to submit by October 23 an enquiry report on the death of 13-year-old Titash Ghosh, who died in an ambulance on a ferry on the way to Dhaka on July 25.

Senior Secretary to the Bridges Division Khandker Anwarul Islam will be appointed as the new cabinet secretary, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal tells journalists.

The High Court directs the authorities concerned to take more effective measures across the country in order to prevent Aedes mosquito that causes dengue fever among people.