Disruption in train schedules causes immense sufferings to passengers in several northern districts as a large number of people are on their return journey, especially to the capital Dhaka, for joining work after the Eid-ul-Azha holidays.

Life had offered Munjer Alam Manik, who used to work at a multinational company, almost all modern amenities in the crowded metropolis of Dhaka. Yet a thought nagged him all the time. “What are we eating,” he would mull frequently about the pervasiveness of adulterated and contaminated food in the capital’s grocery shops and markets.

Garbage cans haphazardly placed across Lalmonirhat town have become a nuisance for its residents.

The country’s inflation has increased 10 basis points to 5.62 percent in the first month of the current fiscal as both food and non-food price increased in July.

Field-level officials of Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) have been asked to monitor the areas of government primary schools so that no-primary level educational institutions would be established there.

The High Court (HC) accepts three separate appeals filed by 43 convicts in a case over attack on a train carrying the then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina in Pabna's Ishwardi 25 years ago.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has formally invited his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina for a bilateral official visit to India in the first week of October next.

The High Court extends for one year its earlier order that granted bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a case filed for killing seven people by setting fire on a bus in Cumilla in 2015.

A suspected robber has been killed in a reported gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Pekua upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

The High Court issues a rule asking the government to explain in a week why Aysha Siddika Minni should not be granted bail in her husband Rifat Sharif’s murder case.

Greenpeace in a report alleged that Japanese government is exporting air pollution by financing polluting coal fired power plants overseas, imposing a great heath risk to the people of those countries including Bangladesh.

Miscreants allegedly abduct three men from Bandarban’s Ruma upazila.

A Bangladeshi man has been killed in a road accident in Riyadh of Saudi Arabia.

The Supreme Court clears the way for the government to publish the gazette notification implementing the recommendation of 9th Wage Board for journalists.

A large number of Awami League (AL) leaders and activists in Jaldhaka upazila of Nilphamari went into hiding to avert arrest as police have continued raids to arrest the accused in a case filed for injuring three policemen on National Mourning Day August 15.

A union parishad (UP) member and two others were sent to jail yesterday by a court for kidnapping a teenage girl and injuring a baby in Bagerhat’s Morrelganj upazila.

Police arrested an indigenous man early morning yesterday in Hakimpur upazila of Dinajpur for killing a female garment worker on August 15.

A court in Mymensingh yesterday sent owner of a private clinic, in Brahmapolli area of Mymensingh city, to jail over a rape attempt on a college girl by the clinic manager.

A madrasa student was beaten to death allegedly after complaining to the mother of a neighbouring youth about death threat by the latter at Kathalbari village in Gobindaganj upazila Sunday afternoon.

A former vice chairman of Bandarban Sadar upazila dug up bricks from a road that was built recently by Bandarban Hill District Council (BHDC) in Lemujiri area of the upazila.