The Bangladesh Development Initiative (BDI), a non-partisan research and advocacy group of independent scholars based in the United States, has announced that Dr Hameeda Hossain is the recipient of the 2021 BDI Lifetime Achievement Award.

After the government decided to reopen shopping malls, road transport leaders now want to resume operations of buses and minibuses.

A Dhaka court today placed two leaders of Hefajat-e-Islam on different periods of remand in two separate cases filed with Paltan Police Station over the 2013 mayhem and recent violence in Dhaka.

Four persons were killed and 23 were injured, including fire service officials, in a fire at a building in Old Dhaka's Armanitola area early today.

Sheikh Md Mamunur Rashid, assistant commissioner at Dhaka deputy commissioner’s office and an executive magistrate, has been transferred to Barishal division.

Former DUCSU VP Nurul Haque Nur was sued in another case filed under the Digital Security Act in Cumilla today for allegedly hurting the religious sentiments of Awami League leaders.

Habiganj police today filed an assault case against 200 people in connection with the attack on Dainik Amar Habiganj newspaper office and houses of people from the Hindu community.

An apprentice lawyer was killed in a road accident in Feni’s Lalpur area on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway this afternoon.

A phone call about Ramadan between Zahirul Islam and his nephew Toffazal Hossain a few days ago turned out to be their last.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain has directed the courts of divisional special judges and special judges across the country to hear and dispose of bail petitions and very urgent applications related to criminal cases virtually.

The BNP has sought explanation from the party’s standing committee member Mirza Abbas over his statement on the abduction of party leader M Ilias Ali.

A team of Detective Branch of Police today arrested Dhaka Metropolitan Joint Office Secretary of Hefajat-e-Islam Bangladesh Hazrat Maulana Ihteshamul Haque Sakhi from the capital’s Bangshal area.

The Supreme Court today fixed Sunday for hearing a petition filed by Erfan Salim, son of Awami League MP Haji Md Salim, for vacating its stay order on the High Court bail for him in a case filed over attacking a navy officer in October last year.

The Biden administration today pledged to slash US greenhouse gas emissions by 50%-52% from 2005 levels by 2030, a new target it hopes will spur other big emitter countries to raise their ambition to combat climate change, reports Reuters.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called for ensuring the annual target of 100 billion US dollars which should be balanced 50:50 between adaptation and mitigation with special attention to the vulnerable communities.

The World Bank and the Government of Bangladesh today signed a $250 million financing agreement to help create more and better jobs; recover faster from the Covid-19 pandemic and build resilience to future crisis.

Ninety-eight people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Rab arrested a man for carrying heroin in a private car, while possessing a “movement pass” issued for delivering masks and hand sanitiser.

Five top leaders of Hefajat-e-Islam and Bangladesh Khelafat Majlish were placed on different terms of remand in three cases filed with Paltan Police Station over the 2013 mayhem and recent violence in Dhaka.

Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK), a leading rights organisation, yesterday filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directive on the authorities concerned to conduct a judicial enquiry into the killings of workers at SS Power I Plant at Chattogram's Banshkhali upazila on April 17.