How do the BNP leaders talk about electricity? Have they no shame? Those, who plunged the country into darkness during their regime, are now talking about power crisis. Their dream of government getting ousted due to power outage will soon turn into a nightmare.

 Nobody’s Children is a collection of “ten real stories” of homeless children living without any of the support or privilege we take for granted.

The Anti-Corruption Commission is looking into violations of contract in the procurement of 10 locomotives for Bangladesh Railway.

Customs Intelligence and Customs House officials seized 22,99,500 Saudi riyal -- equivalent to Tk 6 crore -- at Dhaka airport on Wednesday night.

A total of 70 people died in the political clashes across the country in the first half of the year 2022 while 3,770 were injured, according to the data of Human Rights Support Society.

Dhaka University (DU) will celebrate its 101st founding anniversary today. Established in 1921, the country’s oldest university started its academic activities the same year on July 1 with about 600 acres land, 3 faculties, 12 departments, 60 teachers, 877 students and 3 dormitories.

Speakers called for a well-governed democratic Bangladesh by controlling corruption effectively during the virtual annual meeting of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) yesterday.

The High Court yesterday directed the government to submit in three months a report on the steps taken to issue birth certificates to all street children.

BNP, Jatiya Party and Gono Forum MPs at Jatiya Sangsad yesterday blasted the government for the sorry state of the Election Commission (EC), education system, law and order situation and widespread corruption in health sector.

A total of 737 people was infected with dengue in June. In the past five years, June has not witnessed so many cases except in 2019, one of the worst years in regards to dengue infections.

Around 11:00am yesterday, Sufia Begum, a resident of the capital’s Dhanmondi area, went to Dhaka airport to fly to Bangkok for tourism purposes.

Today is the second death anniversary of Latifur Rahman, founder chairman and CEO of Transcom Group, a well-known and highly respected business house in Bangladesh.

Abdur Rob Siddiqui has been adjudged as the best school teacher in Rajshahi division for a third time.

Abul Mansur Ahmad upheld the sorrows and the inherent crises of the common people through his literary works to emancipate them from feudalism and imperialism, Dhaka University Professor Emeritus Serajul Islam Choudhury said yesterday.

The government should take steps to get international recognition of the genocide perpetrated by the Pakistani army during the Liberation War, researchers said yesterday.

Terming weavers and manufacturers of clothes as rural geniuses of Bengal, renowned journalist and former state minister for external affairs of India MJ Akbar said the wealth they had brought was taken away by the British.

Planetary Health Academia (PHA) announced travelling fellowships for Bangladesh’s specialist doctors during a conference in the capital yesterday.

Three people were killed in road and train accidents yesterday, according to reports from our correspondents.

War criminal and former Jatiya Party leader Syed Mohammad Qaisar died yesterday.

Expatriates’ welfare ministry has taken up an initiative to revise the costs for international migration, with the aim to make it more “realistic” for the labour force.