Experts expect few heatwaves over next three months, say no reason for panic 

Plans one-stop service system to speed up approvals and facilitate business operations

Says eight upazila health complexes already upgraded to 100-bed; remaining 492 to be expanded under govt decision

‘Anatomy of BGB Shootings in Rampura’ earns top honour in ‘Best Use of Video’ category

Strike was scheduled to begin today, but owners and workers postponed the decision following MP's request

A seven-year-old girl was killed after being dragged underwater while bathing in a pond at Hazrat Khan Jahan Ali shrine

After a two-day lull during the Eid holiday, both suspected measles cases and hospital admissions have risen over the last four days, raising fresh concern.

Dhaka drivers are gradually changing their long-ingrained traffic habits as AI-based enforcement and semi-automated traffic signals reshape behaviour at major intersections across the city.

Italian police have arrested two Pakistani nationals for the murder of four Pakistani farm workers found dead in a burnt-out minivan in southern Italy, Corriere della Sera daily reported yesterday.

The New York Times publisher on Monday slammed artificial intelligence companies for “brazen theft of intellectual property”, warning they threaten the future of journalism during a speech at the World News Media Congress in the French city of Marseille.

An oil tanker believed to be part of Russia’s “shadow fleet” sailed into a French harbour yesterday, an AFP reporter said, after the French navy detained it on suspicion of flying a false flag.

Tofail Ahmed, a key figure in the mass uprising of 1969 and an organiser of the Liberation War, was laid to rest in his ancestral village in Bhola yesterday.

A 72-year-old man was beaten by a mob after he allegedly attempted to rape a 9-year-old girl in the Halishahar area of the port city yesterday evening.

Although the monsoon season is approaching, the health authorities have yet to take any initiative to conduct the pre-monsoon entomological survey that experts say is crucial for identifying mosquito breeding hotspots and preventing a major dengue outbreak.

The government-appointed probe committee is set to submit its investigation report today into the deaths of six newborns at Ad-din Medical College Hospital, following the incident that occurred on May 27.

The Committee to Protect Journalists in a statement issued yesterday urged Prime Minister Tarique Rahman to act on his government’s press freedom pledge by ending the cycle of partisan persecution of journalists and protecting newsrooms from mob attacks.

The Khulna Divisional Children’s Hospital, built by the government at a cost of around Tk 115 crore to provide specialised treatment for child patients, has remained unused for around two years due to negligence, bureaucratic complications and lack of coordination between government agencies.

The extension could be approved at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in September

A woman was hacked to death allegedly by a local rickshaw-puller inside her home in Katli area of Netrokona municipality on Monday night.

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman is likely to make his first overseas visit to Malaysia on June 21-22, ahead of a three-day China visit starting June 23.