Rapid Action Battalion destroys 400 maunds of mangoes in Jatrabari area of Dhaka. The most of the mangoes were supposed to hit the market at early June, but the mangoes are ripened using different methods which are illegal.

A man, believed to be Russian, who sparked a mass evacuation of the Eiffel Tower by scaling the iconic Paris landmark has been admitted to a psychiatric unit, legal sources say.

The High Court orders the government to stop sand extraction from Sandhya River at Babuganj in Barishal to prevent the devouring of Birshreshtha Captain Mohiuddin Jahangir Smriti Museum and other local structures including his house into the river.

Dhaka University Professor Kazi Shahidullah has been appointed as the chairman of University Grants Commission (UGC).

Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain alleges that farmers are not getting the fair prices of paddy due to the lack of an agricultural policy and government's "irresponsibility".

A Tangail court sentences four transport workers to life term imprisonment for raping a garment worker on a bus in 2016.

In purview of farmers counting losses in Bangladesh, the government has increased the duty on import of the basic staple to protect local produce.

Canada has announced almost US $100 million in humanitarian aid for the Rohingyas currently sheltered in Bangladesh’s refugee camps.

Hello readers! How are you doing today? Here are the headlines so far on May 22, 2019

The executive engineer of Public Works Department (Pabna office) was withdrawn today over allegations of irregularities in purchasing furniture and other household items for officials and other employees of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant.

Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) launches an air condition (AC) bus service on Dhaka-Narayanganj route.

The High Court orders the director general of the directorate of health services to conduct an enquiry into a “misleading postmortem report” made in connection with a rape and murder case in Patuakhali.

The High Court directs the government to explain in four weeks why it should not be directed to take steps for installing fire extinguishers in all public vehicles to prevent fire accidents.

The 15 Bangladeshis who returned home yesterday are not the ones who survived the boat capsize in Mediterranean Sea on May 9.

Nearly 500 people escape narrowly after the hull of a passenger launch cracked open mid-river in Chandpur’s Matlab North upazila.

Twelve fallen peacekeepers from Bangladesh are to be honoured by the United Nations when it will observe the International Day of UN Peacekeepers.

Railway Minister Nurul Islam Sujan has acknowledged the glitch in sale of advance train tickets through app and said the unsold tickets will be on sale at counters after five days from today.

Bangladesh Meteorological Department predicts increased rain activity at many places in the country in the next 24 hours ending at 9:00 am tomorrow.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expresses concern over the “needless controversy” created by the opposition over EVMs at a meeting of NDA leaders yesterday evening convened by party president Amit Shah.

India has successfully launched an earth observation satellite that would enhance the country’s surveillance capabilities among others.