The country’s first metro rail, once launched, will save around Tk 3,500 crore annually in terms of travel time and vehicle operation costs, metro rail authorities said.

The flood situation in Sylhet and Sunamganj has worsened for excessive torrential rain in the districts and India’s Meghalaya and Assam.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, now undergoing treatment at Evercare Hospital, was moved to a cabin from the coronary care unit yesterday.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday warned of a “dangerous disconnect” between what scientists and citizens are demanding to curb climate change, and what governments are actually doing about it.

“Sir, I have been raped. We are very poor. We have no money for moving the case. I want justice from you.”

Bangladesh will be hoping to turn their fortunes in the longest format of the game under the leadership of Shakib Al Hasan when the first Test against the West Indies begins in Antigua today.

People faced delays in casting votes via EVMs in union parishad elections in Chattogram’s Banshkhali yesterday as fingerprints of many did not match with the ones in the voters’ database and some failed to use the machines properly.

Russia said yesterday its forces destroyed a depot containing Nato-supplied arms in western Ukraine as Kyiv showed no signs of obeying a Russian ultimatum to surrender the eastern city of Severodonetsk.

Indian Border Security Force arrested six Bangladeshis with Phensedyl bottles and packets of fish feed from the border area in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Monday night.

Police arrested a youth in Jashore’s Lebutala village early yesterday over raping a schoolgirl.

The Press Council Act-1974 is being amended with a provision of fining a journalist up to Tk 10 lakh if found involved in any illegal or criminal activities, Bangladesh Press Council Chairman Justice Nizamul Huq Nasim said on Tuesday.

It is the beach holiday you have been waiting for. You have your swimming gear ready, and the waves crashing upon the Kolatoli beach in Cox’s Bazar are calling out.

At least 13 BNP leaders and activists were sent to jail yesterday in a case filed against 342 people in connection with BNP’s attack on police in Barguna’s Amtali on Monday.

A Gopalganj court yesterday sent two people to jail on charges of hurting religious sentiments.

A 10th grader died yesterday after falling while taking selfies at the gate of a moving train at the Chuadanga railway station on Monday evening.

The European Union said yesterday it has purchased almost 110,000 vaccine doses to help tackle the monkeypox outbreak and would share them out among the bloc’s members.

Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics is going to begin its sixth population and housing census, the first one to be conducted digitally, from today.

The Anti-Corruption Commission is not sure whether the finance minister’s recent proposal for giving money launderers the scope to legalise money theylaundered out of the country would hamper investigations against money launderers.

Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud yesterday told parliament that a letter was sent to the Department of Posts and Telecommunications to block the links and cancel the domain registrations of 179 online news portals that spread confusion among people.

About 35,000 people of 49 villages in Kurigram’s Roumari have been suffering from shortage of drinking water and food since flood hit the upazila on June 11.