The foreign ministers of Bangladesh and India share a common vision of connecting South and Southeast Asia through regional water, rail and roadways projects, as well as through sharing energy, tourism and telecommunication networks.

All roads in the capital will be brought under CCTV camera coverage, which would benefit the city’s traffic management and help control crime, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said yesterday.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh is filling up a large waterbody on the eastern side of the Hajj camp at the capital’s Ashkona for a housing project for its officials and employees, violating a conservation law.

Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal leaders and activists have come under repeated attacks by the armed members of Bangladesh Chhatra League since Tuesday while trying to hold programmes in Dhaka University areas and some other parts of the country.

Seven intrepid women were yesterday felicitated at the sixth edition of the “Unsung Women Nation Builders Awards”, an initiative of The Daily Star and IPDC, for their meaningful contributions to building a better Bangladesh.

Around 50 people, including a journalist and a lawyer, were reportedly injured as armed members of BCL swooped on JCD leaders and activists in the High Court area yesterday, just two days after violence rocked the Dhaka University campus.

The government has finally responded to the Human Rights Council’s Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances for the first time in 26 years.

The religious affairs ministry dropped a bombshell on potential hajj pilgrims yesterday telling them that they would have to pay Tk 59,000 by Monday on top of the already hiked hajj package costs.

The health directorate has ordered closure of all unregistered private hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres by tomorrow afternoon.

Biman’s struggle to decide where to make a stopover for its ambitious Dhaka-Toronto route demonstrates its inefficiency and lack of professionalism, aviation experts said.

Soon after Tuesday’s violence on Dhaka University campus, a top leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League claimed they had no “organisational involvement” in the attack on leaders and activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal.

Work for the Dhaka-Ashulia Elevated Expressway project is yet to formally start but the deadline for the mega project is to expire in just over a month.

The government is committed to using the long-overdue National Household Database (NHD) from the next fiscal year to better target the social safety net programmes, in a development that can infuse dynamism in the flat scheme.

Information and communications technology experts yesterday said it would be almost impossible to manipulate the electronic voting machines.

The BNP has decided to hold talks with other parties to devise a strategy for a united movement against the government.

Expressing concern over the two proposed acts relating to media freedom, US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas feared that some of the provisions in the draft acts could be used to intimidate journalists.

Speculation over when the Padma bridge would open has come to an end, and the countdown to the long-awaited day that the country’s longest bridge will be open to traffic has begun.  

More than 11 years ago, the government issued an order for the trade of essential commodities, aimed at controlling their prices and curbing price manipulation by unscrupulous businesses through hoarding and other unfair means.

The taka yesterday weakened further against the US dollar amid the falling supply of the greenback due to surging imports.

The High Court yesterday ordered finding out the persons and institutions responsible for the financial scams and money laundering through e-commerce platforms.