The government is going to set up another 21 weighbridges on major highways to check overloading as the practice is causing damage to roads and bridges.

Doctors have cut another three inches off the amputated leg of Krishna Roy Chowdhury as it became infected. The BIWTC official lost her left leg in an accident in the city’s Banglamotor area a week ago.

Durga Puja is barely a month away, but the festive mood has been punctured by the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the Bengali-dominated village of Khairabari in lower Assam’s Barpeta district.

Indian Border Security Force yesterday opened fire on a group of Bangladeshis leaving at least five wounded at Char Khanpur frontier in Rajshahi.

The BNP yesterday called upon its leaders and activists to be active on the streets with a sacrificing mentality to restore democracy and free party chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail.

A man allegedly killed his 65-year-old mother by setting her on fire after she refused to give him money to buy drugs yesterday evening.

Southern African nations are threatening to quit the global wildlife trade regulator after it refused to relax restrictions on trade in ivory and rhino horn and imposed a near total ban on zoos taking African elephants captured in the wild.

Germany’s far-right AfD party was yesterday hoping for strong gains in elections in two ex-communist states, potentially shaking Chancellor Angela Merkel’s fragile coalition government.

A journalist was shot dead in northwest Honduras Saturday, the 79th killed since 2001 in the Central American country, according to a human rights group.

UN chief Antonio Guterres yesterday promised continued blue helmet support for the army of the Democratic Republic of Congo fighting an array of armed groups.

The Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen said yesterday that it launched air strikes against a Huthi military target south of the capital Sanaa, in an attack the rebels alleged killed dozens of people.

Mohammad Shahabuddin used to be a farmer in Kutupalong area of Ukhia upazila of Cox’s Bazar. He won a national award for farming on four acres of land he had rented for 30 years from a local mosque.

MM Vegetable Oil Products Ltd, a subsidiary of Mostafa Group of Industries, has allegedly misappropriated around Tk 174 crore from Bangladesh Development Bank Ltd using fake documents.

The National Register of Citizens (NRC) in India’s Assam state is an internal issue of India, said Obaidul Quader, general secretary of the ruling Awami League, yesterday.

Myanmar said its military was conducting a rare court martial following a probe into alleged mass graves in crisis-hit Rakhine state, two years after a bloody crackdown drove some 740,000 Rohingya into Bangladesh.

Bangladesh stands to lose $7 billion in export earnings every year once it graduates into the developing country bracket in 2027 as the trade benefits it currently enjoys will be phased out then, a Planning Commission report says.

The alleged ringleader of a Rohingya robber gang was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf yesterday morning, hours after his arrest.

President Hassan Rouhani spoke with French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Saturday, warning him Iran would take the next step in reducing its nuclear commitments unless Europe lives up to its own undertakings.

Sobita, a nurse at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital is now handling more than 10 times the patients she used to at her previous job at the National Institute of Diseases of the Chest and Hospital.

Holy Ashura, commemoration of the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA), will be observed in the country on September 10 as the Muharram moon was sighted in Bangladesh sky yesterday.