The High Court (HC) has directed Department of Environment (DoE) to shut 27 dying factories and private hospitals, which have no environmental clearance certificates, near Shyampur and Postogola on the bank of Buriganga river in 15 days.

The Chattogram Development Authority has said the building, which was partly blown off in a “gas line explosion” did not maintain the Building Code during its construction.

The Supreme Court (SC) has upheld a High Court order that granted bail to former textiles and jute minister Abdul Latif Siddique in a corruption case, clearing the way for him to walk out of jail.

BNP seeks a copy of the agreements the government signed recently with India.

Three labourers have gone missing after a sand-laden bulkhead was hit by a launch and capsized in the River Meghna near Gajaria of Munshiganj.

A four-year-old child is run over by a covered van in the capital’s Mirpur area.

Chattogram City Corporation and Chattogram District Administration will cover treatment expenses of those who suffered injuries during a gas pipeline explosion in Patharghata of Chattogram.

The government is going to enforce the much-anticipated Road Transport Act 2018 from today.

Primary Education Completion Examinations (PECE) and its equivalent Ebtedayee Education Completion Examination begin across the country with 29,03,638 students appearing.

Former Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Samrat, an alleged kingpin of the illegal casino business in the capital, has been placed on a six-day remand in a case filed over amassing illegal wealth.

A wild elephant was found dead in Lama upazila of Bandarban.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had her meals cooked without onion as the essential cooking ingredient appeared to a costly item in recent days.

Seven people have been killed and 15 injured in what police said a gas pipeline explosion at a house in Patharghata of Chattogram city.

Sri Lanka's former wartime defence chief Gotabaya Rajapaksa is set to become president after his main rival conceded defeat in an election that came months after bombings by Islamist militants threw the country into turmoil.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on November 16, 2019

BNP will stage demonstration across the country including Dhaka on Monday protesting the abnormal price spiral of onion and other daily essentials.

The wholesale onion markets in the capital see the low turnout of buyers as the price of the daily essential has gone beyond the purchasing capacity despite the government’s mechanisms to cool down the overheated market.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reaches Dubia on a four-day official visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to attend Dubai Air Show-2019 and other programmes.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleges that the government is unable to bargain with India over the long-standing issues between the two countries.

Talks setting the EU's budget for next year are going down to the wire because of disagreement between member states and the European Parliament, officials say.