The central effluent treatment plant (CETP) at the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate with fundamental flaws and jaw-dropping inadequacies, reflects extremely negatively on how this project was planned, designed and implemented, said Saber Hossain Chowdhury, chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on the environment, forest and climate change ministry.

Two primary school students were injured while playing with an abandoned crude bomb in Natiabari area of Bera, Pabna, yesterday.

Lithuania has changed its decision to donate Covid-19 vaccines to Bangladesh as the latter abstained from voting in favour of the UN General Assembly resolution condemning Russia for invading Ukraine.

In a chilly winter morning, a teenage girl was busy serving customers with tea at a roadside stall in Tangail Sadar upazila’s Khudirampur area.

Police arrested a 58-year-old man for raping a nine-year-old girl in Durgapur, Netrakona.

A 20-year-old man was arrested for killing his two nieces, aged six and four, and seriously injuring another child on the street in the Kazir Bolsa area in Ishwarganj, Mymensingh, yesterday.

A contractor was sued over the assault on two engineers of the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) in Dumki, Patuakhali, on Sunday.

Three men died when a tractor rammed their motorcycle on Saturday night in Brahmanbaria. 

A Dhaka court yesterday adjourned till April 26 the hearing on charge framing against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and six others in the Barapukuria coalmine graft case.

A Bangladeshi man was shot dead near Kushtia’s Daulatpur border on Saturday night.

Policy Research Institute, a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organisation, recently signed a memorandum of understanding with The Daily Star on “Policy initiative for DFS in Bangladesh”.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is leaving for the United Arab Emirates today on a five-day visit.

Four bullet-hit bodies were found in Gherao Mukh area of Bandarban’s Rowangchhari upazila yesterday morning.

A boat carrying more than one hundred Rohingya refugees, including dozens of children, landed on the coast of Indonesia’s westernmost province Aceh early yesterday, police said.

The High Court has blasted the Anti-Corruption Commission once again for its failure in bringing money launderers to book.

The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested eight members of a security agency including the mastermind of the racket involved in the swindling of about Tk 3 crore from 231 ATM booths of a private bank.

In recent weeks, people have witnessed a curious sight unfolding in a farm in Dhondogaon area of Thakurgaon.

Armed Police Battalion has arrested the chief commander of so-called Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Ulama branch), who issued the fatwa for the assassination of Rohingya leader Mohib Ullah.

People landing in Saudi Arabia will no longer need to take Covid-19 PCR tests, the kingdom said on Saturday.

Police on Friday arrested a former temporary data entry operator of the Election Commission from Cox’s Bazar’s Matarbari over helping Rohingya refugees obtain Bangladeshi national identity cards.