Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Abu Dhabi for New York on an eight-day official visit to the USA to attend the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

Ayesha Siddika Minni, an accused of a case filed over the murder of her husband, meets her lawyer advocate ZI Khan Panna to take legal advice at his Supreme Court Bar Association Chamber in Dhaka this morning.

Hartwig Schafer, vice president of the World Bank for the South Asia Region, and Jean Todt, special envoy on road safety of the United Nations Secretary-General, will arrive in Bangladesh tomorrow on a two-day visit for discussing the challenges and opportunities to improve road condition in the country.

The number of internet users in the country grew by 19.60 lakh in August which is by far the highest in a single month in recent years, according to a report published by the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC).

The power and water connections to the dormitories of Gopalganj’s Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University (BSMRSTU) are still snapped as the students continued their protest on the campus for the fifth consecutive day.

More than 400 heavy vehicles remain stranded at the Shimulia-Kathalbari terminals as ferry services have been halted early today due to poor navigability in a stretch of the Padma.

A Rohingya couple is killed in a “gunfight” with police at a Rohingya refugee camp in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Baxar, hours after they were detained by law enforcers.

The fires that burned through the Amazon rainforest last month sparked international outcry and offers of help, but as world leaders meet in New York, the planet's largest rainforest remains engulfed in flames.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir asks the government to step down, shouldering the responsibility of its misgovernance and corruption.

A man is held with 4,500 pieces of yaba pills at the domestic terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has begun action in a bid to uproot weeds and others bad elements from Awami League and all of its affiliated bodies to keep the party’s image intact, says party’s General Secretary Obaidul Quader.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) seizes gambling equipment and sharp weapons during simultaneous raids at three clubs in Chattogram city.

Three students, including two of Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University (HSTU), drown as a boat capsized in Ashurar Beel in Nawabganj upazila of Dinajpur this afternoon.

A man is held with currency of 46 countries at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

SM Golam Kibria Shamim, who is a top government-listed contractor also known to be a Jubo League leader, has been remanded for 10 days in two cases.

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British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson today said the United Kingdom (UK) would be spending some 6 billion pounds to help Bangladesh and other vulnerable countries combat climate change with adaptation and mitigation.

New York is bracing for the rising sea levels that climate change will bring, and preparations have already begun -- but the long-term costs of adapting to a warmer, wetter world are expected to be astronomical.

Not the driver, conductor of the Victor Classic Paribahan bus was at the wheel when the vehicle ran over and killed singer and music composer Parvez Rob on September 5.