Tarique Rahman to attend tree plantation programmes and exchange views with BNP leaders

Relatives from Bogura say visiting her resting place brought consolation

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman yesterday directed the concerned authorities to expedite two major waste-to-energy projects for Dhaka, saying the schemes must be implemented on time using the best available environment-friendly technology.

Forty-three of the then government’s 62 ministries and divisions spent Tk 982 crore, 91 lakh and 74 thousand on programmes marking Mujib Borsho across Bangladesh, Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury told parliament yesterday.

People in the country’s southeastern region are still struggling as vast tracts of land remain under water after more than a week of heavy rain and hill torrents.

Hours of heavy rain yesterday left large parts of Dhaka submerged in ankle- to waist-deep water, crippling traffic, and stranding commuters on streets and people in their homes.

The government plans to supplement textbooks with additional materials, such as guides, workbooks, and video lessons, under a new education system aimed at making learning more practical and skills-based.

A man lost both his legs after jumping in front of a moving train near the Zero Point area in Kaliganj upazila of Jhenaidah yesterday evening.

The primary and mass education ministry has prepared draft guidelines for updating the primary curriculum, suggesting an approach that defines what children should know and the skills and competencies they should attain by the end of class-5.

Four members of a family were killed and two others injured after a truck rammed a battery-powered three-wheeler, locally known as a mithila, in Nilphamari’s Domar upazila yesterday.

Former acting president and Jatiya Sangsad speaker Barrister Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar died at a private hospital in Dhaka early yesterday at the age of 94. He had been suffering from age‑related complications.

Five more patients died of confirmed measles and measles-like symptoms across the country in the last 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

A female elephant critically injured after falling about 200 feet down a rain-soaked hill in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf died while undergoing treatment yesterday.

Thousands of people from around 20 villages in Monirampur upazila of Jashore have been enduring severe hardship as construction of a bridge has remained stalled for over a year past its scheduled completion date, with officials attributing the delay to a High Court order requiring a redesign.

A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against 21 people in a case over the murder of scrap trader Lal Chand, alias Sohag, near Mitford Hospital in Old Dhaka and set July 19 for recording prosecution witnesses.

Bangladesh has found its new representative for the Miss World stage during its national finale. Samanzar Sayeed was crowned Miss World Bangladesh 2026 on July 11 at Radisson Blu Dhaka Water Garden Hotel and will go on to compete at the 73rd Miss World Festival in Vietnam.

A total of 79,246 class V students have secured talent-pool and general scholarships under the Primary Scholarship Examination 2025, with girls accounting for nearly 55 percent of the recipients, Education Minister ANM Ehsanul Hoque Milon announced yesterday.

The Election Commission (EC) has revised the timeline for publishing polling centre lists for zila and upazila parishad elections, extending it to 25 days before polling from the previous 15 days, as it prepares for local government elections.

Bangladesh will emerge as a $1 trillion economy by 2036, former Bangladesh Bank governor Dr Mohammed Farashuddin,  said yesterday.

The BNP has decided to instruct its grassroots leaders and activists to intensify organisational activities and begin preparations for elections to different tiers of local government.