Mohib Ullah, one of the most prominent advocates of Rohingya repatriation and the representative of Rohingya refugees’ struggle for identity before the international audience, was shot dead in his office in Kutupalong camp.

Many citizens have lost their lands to Gazipur city corporation. The owners of the lands have complained that workers of the city corporation started demolishing structures without acquiring the land first.

The cyberspace of Bangladesh has become saturated with unregulated internet protocol television (IPTV) operating with a handful of staff and often earning money for airing particular news items or through blackmailing and extortion.

Workers of Opex & Sinha Group in Kanchpur have surrounded Shromo Bhaban demanding payment of arrears.

The honors 1st year admission exam for 2020-21 at Rajshahi University has been scheduled for the first week of October despite halls being closed.

For the last few years there has been a marked decrease in yield in agricultural land surrounding the Sitakunda shipbreaking yard in Chattogram. Local farmers have complained that most of the flowers in vegetable farms of the area are falling off before harvest time.

With an extension, Cox's Bazar airport runway is set to become the longest in Bangladesh. In addition, crores of taka are being spent to upgrade the airport to international standards.

Family members of Army and Air Force men, who were hanged, jailed and sacked in the name of preventing a mutiny on October 2, 1977, formed a human chain in front of the old Dhaka Central Jail yesterday, demanding posthumous trial of late president Ziaur Rahman.

Wastewater from factories has flooded the roads in Dhaka's Shampur industrial area. Garbage piled along the side of the road is once again spilling over. Residents in the area are at severe health risk.

Today marked the first time that Dhaka University's admission test has been held in all eight divisions of the country. The admission test for 'Ka' unit of Dhaka University's science faculty was held today.

For the last four years, most of the homes in the government cluster villages in Dahagram union in Lalmonirhat have been empty. At least 130 landless families were given homes in these villages of Dahagram union in Patgram upazila. Now 80 of these 130 villages are unoccupied and the 50 families living there are facing problems regularly.

The RT-PCR labs at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka have finally been set up, were given approval and have started testing outbound passengers for coronavirus.

In order to protect our rivers and waterbodies, the High Court had declared them as living entities. With pollution increasing each and every day, government bodies like BIWTA filling up rivers, and encroachment by unscrupulous business entities, our insincerity in protecting our rivers is apparent.

While the government is celebrating a step towards data protection with a law modelled after the EU’s data protection law, experts are expressing grave concern about it being another tool for surveillance and repression.

To celebrate the 75th birthday of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the Ministry of Shipping and BIWTA organised Nouka Baich, a traditional boat race on the capital's Buriganga river using a special kind of long, narrow.

The government is planning to bring 80% of the country’s population under Covid-19 vaccination, and has announced that two crore individuals will be given vaccines each month.

App-based ride-sharing bikers assembled for their labour rights and in protest against police harassment and high commission rates set by the ride-sharing companies. Today, in front of the National Press Club, leaders of the App-Based Drivers’ Union of Bangladesh announced 6 demands from the assembly.

On November 1, 2020, journalist Golam Sarwar, was found in a near-unconscious beside a canal at Sitakunda, Chattogram after being missing for three days. After regaining consciousness, he started crying, “I will not do news coverage anymore”. But, the investigation report of his case stated that there is no evidence of him being abducted.

Due to the Dhaka-Sylhet railway and Srimangal-Bhanugach road running through the reserve forest of Lawachara, many of the critically endangered hoolock gibbon species have died in accidents with cars and trains while crossing them. To save the habitat of the species, canopy bridges have been constructed throughout the forest by a team of researchers from Jagannath University.

Work of the first flyover in Rajshahi has remained halted for the last three months. For local farmers, the flyover and the adjacent road undergoing expansion have turned into a grazing area for their cows. Because of repeated change in plan, construction of the flyover and the expansion of the 5km road has remained incomplete for the last 8 years.