With only a day remaining before Eid-ul-Azha, selling of sacrificial animals is yet to gain momentum at the markets in the capital.

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller yesterday reassured his country’s commitment to work with Bangladesh in combating human trafficking.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh yesterday announced a Tk 6,119.59 crore budget, with a major focus on recovering waterbodies, mosquito control activities and ensuring recreation facilities for city dwellers.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has alleged that people do not have confidence in the country’s health system anymore, as it has completely collapsed.

A lighter vessel carrying 1,500 tonnes of cement clinker capsized near Hatiya channel after colliding with another vessel yesterday.

Within nine working days, detectives yesterday pressed charges against Regent Group Chairman Mohammad Shahed in an arms case.

Fire gutted a CNG filling station at Burichang on Dhaka-Chattogram highway yesterday, injuring two workers of the station.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-14) yesterday arrested a dealer of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) for illegally hoarding its goods.

At least nine people were killed and around 12 injured in road accidents in four districts during the last two days, report our correspondents.

The government will not export hilsa abroad during this season, saidFisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul Karim yesterday.

Six Eid-ul-Azha jamaats (congregations) will be held at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque from 7am on the Eid day tomorrow, said a press release of Islamic Foundation.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has requested Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) of Bangladesh Bank to freeze all bank accounts National Institute of Diseases of the Chest and Hospital (NIDCH)’s Administrative Officer Munsi Sazzad Hossain and his two brothers.

All overhead cables on Gulshan Avenue (from Pakistan Embassy to Gulshan Shooting Club) will be put underground by October 1, Dhaka North City Corporation(DNCC) Mayor Atiqul Islam said yesterday.

Detectives in separate drives arrested 59 members of “dope gangs” from different parts of the capital yesterday.

A Dhaka court today placed three arrestees on 14-day remand each in connection with two cases filed over the blast at Pallabi Police Station on July 29.

Bangladesh is the fourth most-seriously hit in terms of the number of children affected by lead poisoning on a massive and previously unknown scale in the world, according to a new global report.

Forest officials rescued 60 pankauris – cormorants -- during a drive in Barlekha upazila of Moulvibazar last night.

A father and his son were killed in a road accident in Gaibandha’s Gobindaganj upazila today.

Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh has announced Tk 6,119.59 crore budget for 2020-21 fiscal year.

A journalist and his family members were injured in an attack carried out by some local criminals in Lalmonirhat Sadar last night.