Activist Mizanur Rahman walked out of the DB office in the capital’s Minto Road yesterday, six hours after he was picked up.

Withdrawal of the existing 5 percent advance tax on gold import has been proposed in the budget for fiscal 2022-23 to encourage import of the precious metal through formal channel and discourage its smuggling.

Panic spread among officials at the Chattogram Port when smoke began billowing from an acid-loaded container on Tuesday, around three days after the BM container depot fire and explosion.

The Padma Bridge will be opened to traffic on June 26, a day after its inauguration.

The government of Bangladesh has written to the United Nations arguing that it is “unlawful to arbitrarily consider any missing [person’s] case as enforced disappearance”.

Although the child-centric budget allocation increased in terms of size over the last two fiscal years, it dropped from 2.78 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to 2.63 percent.

The US wants a general election in which the Bangladeshi people can choose their leaders, US Ambassador in Dhaka Peter Haas said yesterday.

Ukrainian troops holding out in the ruins of Severodonetsk yesterday came under renewed heavy assault from Russian forces who see the capture of the industrial city as key to control of the surrounding Luhansk region.

Police yesterday sued eight officials of the fire-ravaged BM Container Depot for negligence but left out the owners of the depot.

A Dhaka court yesterday set September 20 for the hearing on the charge framing of 11 cases, including one filed over sedition, against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.

Police yesterday recovered the body of an imam, who was hacked to death in Joypurhat’s Kalai upazila.

Abul Kashem, a former MP and Jatiya Party presidium member was stabbed by his party rivals in Tangail yesterday.

A police team is scheduled to reach Dhaka from Oman in the morning today with Sumon Shikder Musa, a key suspect of the murders of a city Awami League leader and a college student in late March.

The authorities have increased the bus fares on 13 routes of south-western districts, which will come into force on June 26, a day after the inauguration of the Padma Bridge.

The Gono Commission has recently been facing a backlash from religion-based organisations over submission of a “white paper” that named 116 religious leaders and Islamic speakers for their “involvement in laundering money, funding militancy and spreading communal hatred”.

Police yesterday arrested the editor of Dainik Parbatta Chattogram, a Rangamati-based daily, in a case filed under the controversial Digital Security Act.

Russia yesterday reported its forces had taken full control of residential neighbourhoods in Ukraine’s flashpoint city of Severodonetsk, after Kyiv said its troops were fighting on in the eastern hub despite being outnumbered.

The Turkish man, sent to a hospital from Dhaka airport because he has rashes on his body, has no monkeypox symptoms, said a top official of the health directorate.

The Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Ito Naoki yesterday expressed hopes that the government would do everything necessary to ensure next year’s national election is free, fair, and better than the last one held in 2018.

Israel’s occupation and discrimination against Palestinians are the main causes of the endless cycles of violence, UN investigators said yesterday, prompting angry Israeli protests.