A significant rise in number of battery-run auto-rickshaws has paved way to serious traffic congestion at Mantola Bazar Intersection in Habiganj’s Madhabpur upazila.

The Public Works Department initiated a project in 2021 to build a specialised hospital in Barishal for cancer, cardiac, and kidney patients.

Police have been largely absent on the ground in the one month since the fall of the Hasina-led government amid a mass uprising, causing safety concerns for the public.

Chattogram-based business giant S Alam Group has taken more than half of the total loans disbursed by Islami Bank, said the Shariah-based lender’s newly-appointed chairman.

The recent rainfall has once again exposed Bagerhat municipality’s woefully inadequate drainage system and the sufferings it can cause to town dwellers.

The Anti-Corruption Commission has decided to open an investigation into the corruption allegations against former army chief Gen (retd) Aziz Ahmed as it has found preliminary proof of graft.

The 16-year-old boy, Alfi Shahriar Mahim, who was arrested in the murder case of Begum Rokeya University student Abu Sayed on July 18, got bail yesterday after languishing in jail for 13 days.

For the past several years, local residents have been dumping household wastes in the open on Olipur-Shahjibazar road in Brahmandura union under Shayestaganj upazila of Habiganj.

For the last couple of days, two year-old Sayma Akter holds a mango in her hand, hoping her father will return home so that they can share their favourite fruit together.

Hasina Begum has become numb since her eldest son, Ahsan Habib, 25, died after being shot in the neck during a clash centring the quota reform protest on July 18.

Farmers in different upazila of Rajbari are busy purchasing paddy saplings for planting in their croplands amid the ongoing Aman planting season across the country.

“Please help! We need money to send this body to his village for funeral. Donate whatever you can.”

Jashore University Science and Technology has decided to expel nine students from various departments for their involvement in kidnapping job applicants and torturing a residential student overnight

Between 9:00am and 6:00pm, at least 154 patients received treatment at the DMCH

Cuet students blocked Chattogram-Kaptai road in front of the university yesterday, protesting the death of two students in a road crash on Monday.

The political pressure to punish Iran creates a thorny problem for the administration: how to deter such attacks in future without escalating regional tensions, raising oil prices or antagonizing China, the biggest buyer of Iranian oil.

A contractor has allegedly threatened a railway engineer publicly for not complying with his wishes of using poor materials in a road construction project in Kurigram.

Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) has decided to raise the toll rate of Bangabandhu Bridge by around 17 percent aiming to boost its income for covering maintenance costs and repaying loans.

Planning Minister MA Mannan and Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday talked about resolving a spat between them over the route selection for a prospective railway in Sunamganj.

Awami League, the oldest and largest political party in Bangladesh, is celebrating its 72nd foundation day today in a restricted manner amid the pandemic.