LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Md Tazul Islam yesterday asked the project directors to maintain timeline and quality while implementing various projects.

President Hassan Rouhani denounces the presence of foreign forces in the Gulf and said Iran will put forward a peace plan, after arch-foe the United States ordered reinforcements to the tinderbox region.

The government has appointed former senior secretary Nasima Begum as the chairman of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says the government would not allow operation of any illegal business like casino in the country.

Chattogram Metropolitan Police’s counter terrorism unit detains four Election Commission (EC) employees in a case filed over providing NID cards to Rohingyas.

Police seize casino, gambling equipment, liquors and cash conducting drives at four clubs in Motijheel area of Dhaka.

A special tribunal in Dhaka sentences five JMB members to 12 years’ rigorous imprisonment in connection with a blast in Dhaka’s Khilkhet area as part of the series bomb blast in 63 districts of the country on August 17, 2005.

Ayesha Siddika Minni, an accused of a case filed over the murder of her husband, meets her lawyer advocate ZI Khan Panna to take legal advice at his Supreme Court Bar Association Chamber in Dhaka this morning.

Hartwig Schafer, vice president of the World Bank for the South Asia Region, and Jean Todt, special envoy on road safety of the United Nations Secretary-General, will arrive in Bangladesh tomorrow on a two-day visit for discussing the challenges and opportunities to improve road condition in the country.

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud yesterday said BNP leaders should thank Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her stance against corruption and apologise to people for their misdeeds during BNP regimes.

Six people were killed and 16 injured in road accidents in three districts yesterday, according to reports from our correspondents.

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Noted media personality and agriculture development activist Shykh Seraj has received the “Standard Chartered-Channel i Agrow Lifetime Achievement Award” for his contributions to the country’s agricultural development.

Left-leaning politicians, economists and energy experts yesterday demanded omission of a provision from a government production sharing contract, that allows drilling companies to export gas extracted from offshore blocks in the Bay of Bengal.

Indian Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) Admiral Karambir Singh arrived in Dhaka yesterday on a four-day visit, aiming to improve bilateral maritime relations between the two countries.

Despite the country being committed to meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there is shortage of information as well as obstacle in identifying appropriate indicators in this regard, speakers said at a workshop yesterday.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) yesterday termed the ongoing action against the allegedly corrupt youth and student leaders “just a tip of the iceberg”.

World Car Free Day 2019 will be observed today in the country, as elsewhere in the world.

A syndicate of extortionists, which has been “born and raised under political patron over the years”, is the major barrier to establishing discipline in the country’s transport sector, road safety campaigners said yesterday.

Admission tests for honours programmes of Jahangirnagar University (JU) will begin today and continue till October 1.