LGRD Minister Md Tazul Islam yesterday asked authorities concerned to take necessary steps and ensure that makeshift cattle markets are set up only in designated places maintaining health guidelines during the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha.

The proposed budget for FY 2021-22, if passed, will make tobacco products even more affordable and increase its use among the youth and poor, said lawmakers, economists and public health experts at a virtual programme yesterday.

Libyan coast guards have rescued and detained 439 migrants, including 164 Bangladeshis, from the Mediterranean Sea as they were trying to go to Europe.

The government needs to show its commitment in conserving the country’s environment and restoring its ecosystem, speakers said at an online discussion yesterday.

The first death anniversary of veteran Awami League leader and former minister Mohammed Nasim was observed yesterday with different programmes maintaining health guideline protocols for Covid-19.

The authorities of Cumilla University have started holding in-person examinations -- postponed due to Covid-19 situation -- from yesterday, maintaining health guidelines.

Members of Counter Terrorism Division of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) claimed to have arrested the “IT expert” of banned militant outfit Ansar Al Islam from port city’s Khulshi area on Friday night.

Field-level election officials have expressed fear of chaos at the upcoming Union Parishad and Pourasabha elections, stemming from confrontational local politics and factional feuds.

Bangladesh may face a massive earthquake in the very near future. Therefore, the government should take necessary preparations like building

A landscape design project based in Dhaka city has bagged the prestigious ‘DNA Paris Design Award 2021’.

Poritosh came to Khulna Medical College Hospital’s dedicated Covid-19 unit all the way from a Moheshkura of Bagerhat’s Morelgong upazila on

The road that connects Tejgaon Satrasta intersection to Karwan Bazar and Farmgate is named after late Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul

Most of the patients who started overwhelming the coronavirus unit of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital in the third week of May were from the frontier district of Chapainawabganj.

A motorcycle rider and his pillion passenger were killed and an ambulance driver was injured when the ambulance hit the bike on Dhaka-Aricha

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday urged the party leaders and activists to put behind intra-party conflicts first before

By keeping educational institutions closed for more than 15 months, the education minister is leading the sector to destruction, leaders and activists of different left-leaning student organisations said yesterday.

Seven persons, including Patuakhali Science and Technology University’s (PSTU) vice-chancellor (VC), were served a legal notice, calling for action

Participants including a number of lawmakers at a virtual seminar yesterday urged the government to allocate at least Tk 15,000 crore from revenue in the 2021-22 national budget for coastal protection, particularly for climate-resilient embankment construction.

An assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) was killed and a constable injured after a microbus carrying liquor rammed into them in the port city’s Chandgaon area when they were on-duty early yesterday.

Basurhat municipality mayor Abdul Quader Mirza on Thursday filed a general diary (GD) against 96 persons including his two nephews and a Noakhali lawmaker.