Six people were injured as a bus plunged into a road-side canal in Janigaon area of Sunamganj Sadar upazila earlier today.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said Indian Border Security Force should be cautious and use non-lethal weapons while guarding the border with Bangladesh.

A prisoner of Chattogram Central Jail has died while undergoing treatment at Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH).

The prosecution has submitted two petitions to a Dhaka court for showing Regent Group Chairman Md Shahed Karim arrested in two cases filed over misappropriation of Tk 3.68 crore of a businessman.

A girl has been stabbed to death by an unknown person in Dhaka’s Dakshinkhan area.

Transparency International Bangladesh yesterday termed the appointment and reappointment of the present managing director (MD) of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority “questionable”, calling upon to conduct a neutral audit to this end.

Ekattorer Ghatok Dalal Nirmul Committee yesterday congratulated UK Home Secretary Priti Patel for branding Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin -- a British Muslim leader facing the death penalty in Bangladesh for alleged war crimes -- a war criminal.

The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayor yesterday placed a Tk 4,506.75 crore budget for 2020-21 fiscal year, giving priority to mosquito control and garbage management activities.

The tenure of the incumbent council of Chattogram City Corporation will expire on August 5 and the government is going to employ an administrator to run the CCC during the interim period until an election is held to elect a new body.

To expand a street and install drainage, Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) is tearing down the boundary wall of Rajshahi College, which is a 147-year-old heritage site built following colonial-era architecture.

Thieves yesterday stole a bag containing Tk 17 lakh from a branch of Agrani Bank in Rajshahi’s Shaheb Bazar.

Shah Makhdum Airport in Rajshahi is resuming operations on the domestic route to Dhaka from today.

The Miarchar channel on Barishal-Dhaka river route has been declared closed after a cement-laden cargo vessel capsized there on Saturday afternoon.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court will hold hearing on the review petition of war criminal ATM Azharul Islam when its regular functions will resume after the ongoing closure.

Rajshahi residents formed a human chain and staged a rally at the city’s Alupatty intersection yesterday, to press a five-point demand including protection of people’s health and implementation of the Rajshahi City Corporation Act to that end.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday claimed to have arrested four members of a “dope gang” that allegedly looted valuables from people by feeding them sedatives.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has decided to file a case against Mahbubul Haque Chisty, former chairman and audit body chief of now-defunct Farmers Bank, his son and four others for misappropriating about Tk 63 crore.

Nearly 93 percent of child workers based in the capital have failed to find work on a regular basis during the pandemic, a survey has found.

A three-member probe body of Chattogram Metropolitan Police today recommended the suspension of sub-inspector of Double Mooring Police Station after finding him guilty of “prompting the suicide” of a 16-year old boy following assault and harassment by his family members.

The managing director of Shahabuddin Medical College Hospital (SMCH), who was on the run, has been arrested by Rapid Action Battalion from a hotel in Dhaka’s Gulshan.