A man died after falling into the elevator shaft of a high-rise building in Dhaka’s Malibagh area this morning.

The rate of recovery from Covid-19 infection among lower court personnel and staff is 66 percent, while there have been less then one percent fatal cases.

Heavy downpour in the past few weeks has brought many problems for the government-run Horticulture Centre in Savar’s Rajalakh, an institution that has been instrumental for widespread tree plantation in the area.

After 18 people drowned in a recent trawler capsize in Netrakona’s Madan upazila, the local administration asked leaseholder of Uchitpur Trawler Ghat and trawler owners to arrange for mandatory life jackets for all passengers.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has called for ensuring active participation of youth in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by involving them in making decisions, formulating policies and strategies, setting action plans and implementing them.

The Bhadra and Shalta rivers in Khulna’s Dumuria upazila have filled up in just one year after re-excavation that cost Tk 46.25 crore. Sever

Janmashtami, the celebration of Sri Krishna’s birth and one of the major festivals of the Hindu community, was celebrated yesterday in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country with due religious fervour.

Dhaka North City Corporation mayor Atiqul Islam yesterday said construction works of 10 U-loops -- stretching from Tejgaon to Uttara -- will be finished by December.

Around nine years after its formation, the railways ministry has decided to transfer its office from Rail Bhaban, the headquarters of Bangladesh Railway, to the secretariat, according to a ministry document.

Khorshed Alam Sujan took charge as Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) administrator on Thursday. He has been appointed for 180 days as the CCC polls was postponed due to Covid-19 pandemic.

Another police personnel died with Covid-19 infection at Central Police Hospital in Dhaka early today.

Around nine percent -- nearly 20 lakh -- of Dhaka city dwellers could be Covid-19 positive with roughly 78 percent of them exhibiting no symptoms, according to a study.

The law ministry has decided to organise several programmes at the district judgeships and upazila sub-registry offices across the country in order to observe National Mourning Day on August 15.

After five months, the regular functions of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court will resume tomorrow strictly following the health guidelines.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed three Awami League leaders of Faridpur unit on three-day remand each in a Tk 2,000 crore money laundering case.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed Regent Hospital Chairman Mohammad Shahed on a seven-day remand in a case filed over misappropriation of Tk 2.71 crore of Farmers Bank Ltd.

Seventeen more Bangladeshi Tabligh Jamaat members, including eight women, returned home on Sunday night after languishing in an Indian jail for 40 days.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday pressed charges against Dhaka-6 constituency lawmaker Kazi Firoz Rashid, also a presidium member of Jatiya Party, on the charge of grabbing a government land.

Bangladeshi migrant workers in Bahrain are seeing fresh employment opportunities amid the coronavirus pandemic, as some local employers there, especially in the construction sector, are opening up jobs for such workers.

BNP yesterday said that Election Commission (EC) is going to unilaterally change names of local government institutions and their posts at the “behest” of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.