The metro rail authority has taken a number of initiatives to bring back foreign engineers and consultants to speed up the construction work of country’s first metro rail project amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

With most doctors not attending chambers for over three months, patients in Chattogram are being compelled to seek health-related suggestions from staff members at various dispensaries, leading to irrational use of antibiotics which can have adverse health impacts in the long run.

The Bangladesh embassy in Hanoi is asking the 27 Bangladeshis stranded there to go back to work in Ho Chi Minh City, but the workers are sticking to their demand of repatriation at the earliest.

Prominent Bangladeshi photojournalist Shahidul Alam has been awarded the 2020 International Press Freedom Award alongside three others from Iran, Nigeria and Russia.

National Technical Advisory Committee (NTAC) on Covid-19 on Friday suggested not to set up cattle markets in Dhaka, Narayanganj, Gazipur and Chattogram cities as a preventive measure against the pandemic.

A fire broke out at an electric bulb factory in Bongshal area of Dhaka tonight.

The Rapid Action Battalion arrested Masud Parvez, managing director of Regent Group, from Gazipur this evening.

Shabab Chowdhury, son of lawmaker Ekramul Karim Chowdhury of Noakhali-4 constituency, rammed a police patrol van with his car in Chattogram city’s Lalkhan Bazar area under Khulshi police station, and was locked into an altercation with police personnel.

The government has taken up four projects costing Tk 8,000 crore to construct sustainable embankments to protect the lives and properties of people in the coastal areas of the southwestern part of the country, Deputy Minister for Water Resources AKM Enamul Hoque Shameem said today.

Jatiya Party today observed the first death anniversary of its founder HM Ershad with various programmes maintaining social distancing and health directives in wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain has decided to run the virtual judicial functions of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court for five days a week from July 19 in order to hear and dispose of urgent cases.

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) today approved eight projects with an overall estimated cost of Taka 10,102.03 crore, including a Tk 4,025.62 crore project to develop road infrastructures and drainage system in the 18 new wards under Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC).

Former minister and freedom fighter Shahjahan Siraj has died of cancer at the age of 77.

The High Court today denied bail to a detained accused, Mohammad Ali, in the sensational Freedom Fighter Faruk Ahmed murder case in Tangail.

Gynaecologist Dr Irin Jaman of Chattogram Ma O Shishu Hospital has died of coronavirus while undergoing treatment at the Intensive Care Unit of Chattogram Medical College Hospital.

The High Court has refused to grant bail to Maruf Reza, an accused in a 30 year old murder case of Sagira Morshed.

Abul Bashar Mollah, the master of Mayur-2 launch that hit and sank another vessel in Buriganga river on June 29 killing at least 34 persons, has been placed on a three-day remand by a Dhaka court.

Around three and a half lakh people living in the chars and shores of Brahmaputra, Teesta and Dharla rivers of Kurigram and Lalmonirhat are affected by floods.

Vice Chancellor of Patuakhali Science and Technology University Prof Dr Harun-Or-Rashid and his wife Kanika Mahfuz have been airlifted to Dhaka and admitted to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital with breathing problems.

Detectives have been tasked with investigation of a case filed against JKG Health Care Chairman Dr Sabrina Arif Chowdhury and some others over issuing fake Covid-19 test reports.