The ongoing 48-hour road transport strike that began at 6:00am yesterday in 21 districts of the country's south western region caused immense sufferings to passengers.

The 10th Parliament goes into its third budget session on June 1, says a Parliament Secretariat press release.

The Chittagong Metropolitan Police yesterday announced that the area it covers would be divided into 135 beats to create a database of local people, criminals, establishments and the characteristics of crimes at specific spots.

Two youths have been hacked to death by unidentified criminals in Ershadnagar area under Tongi of Gazipur city.

The High Court has cleared the way for a lower court to continue trial proceedings against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Zia Charitable Trust corruption case.

Superstore owners yesterday urged the government to scientifically test any product from their shelves before taking action based on allegations of selling substandard or adulterated foods.

Time has changed little on Cox's Bazar's Kutubdia Island. Tides rise and fall, waves crash upon the beach while people are busy with salt production and fishing, just as they always have been. The island's limited electricity has proved a similarly unchanging reality.

A rejuvenated Dhaka Mariner Youngs Club got off to a flyer in the Green Delta Insurance Premier Hockey League with an emphatic 4-1 win over Ajax SC at the Maulana Bhasani Stadium yesterday.

Khulna district won their fourth National Cricket Championship title when they beat Dhaka district by six wickets in the final of the competition in Pabna yesterday.

The Bangladesh Football Federation is set to get more financial assistance from the FIFA as the 66th Congress of the world's game governing body decided to double the current expenditure fund and provide additional development fund to its member associations.

Since Bangladesh's elimination from the semifinals of the Bangabandhu Gold Cup in late February, the key national players had been out of international action due to suspension while others missed out domestic competition due to a court ruling.

The government will have to spend more money from the public exchequer on the salaries and perks of the 222 public servants who got promotion over the last three days, but who will continue to do their same old job.

India suspends seven of its Border Security Force (BSF) troopers in connection to killing of a Bangladeshi teenager in Chuadanga.

The High Court issues a contempt rule against three government officials for not procuring necessary equipment for post-earthquake rescue according to a previous order.

Parliament will go into the Budget session on June 1, a Parliament Secretariat press release says.

Mobile phone operators will give free minutes to its users as compensation for every case of call drop and network failure from June 1.

Global financial network SWIFT is primarily responsible for the hacking of Bangladesh central bank reserve, says head of the committee probing into one of the biggest cyber-heists in the world. SWIFT was responsible to ensure around 13 security measures for the safety of the system but it did not do so, he adds.

Hours into police announcement that newly appointed BNP Joint Secretary General Aslam Chowdhury would be arrested wherever he is seen, detectives arrest him in Dhaka's Kuril area for his alleged involvement in a oust-government plot.

The wrestling festival called Jabbarer Boli Khela (Jabbar’s Wrestling Competition) stands as one of Chittagong’s major festival in Laldighi area. The one-day festival begins in the Bangla month of Baishakh—or around April 25. Scores of professional and amateur wrestlers from across the country participates in the competition.

Owners of nearly 100 superstores keep their shutter down in Dhaka and other parts of the country since this morning, protesting “harassment through implementation of discriminatory policy and misuse of law”.