At least 30 readymade garment workers are injured in a clash with police in Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj.

The new acting president of Bangladesh Chhatra League, Al Nahian Khan Joy, warns of taking actions if any BCL men tarnish image of the student organization through extortion.

Md Shafiqul Islam, the new commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, has said that he would work as an officer-in-charge (OC) to make police stations more people-oriented.

The workers of a readymade garment factory, who have been staging demonstration in Dhaka’s Mirpur-1 since the morning, withdraw their blockade.

It was around 7:00pm on Friday, a man was running after snatching a mobile phone from a passenger of a bus stuck in traffic jam in front of Chandni Chowk Market in the city's Nilkhet area.

Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque yesterday said Bangladesh is committed to ensure biosafety as an adaptor of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity.

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam yesterday said the government under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is working relentlessly for infrastructural development in rural areas.

The government is working towards increasing the country’s power generation capacity to 60,000 megawatt (MW) by 2041. The current capacity is 22,329MW.

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The High Court has directed the government to grant the selection grade and time scale to three assistant teachers of separate government secondary schools as per the relevant provisions of the Services (Pay and Allowances) Order 2009.

LGRD Minister Md Tajul Islam yesterday said the government will introduce more water transports on canals and lakes of the capital, to rescue them from illegal encroachment and pollution, and at the same time ease the pressure on the congested roads.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said the council of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) was postponed due to crisis in leadership in BNP.

Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman GM Quader yesterday urged leaders and activists of the party to come together, putting aside all the divisions among them, to play an important role in pro-people politics.

Speakers at a seminar yesterday urged the government to ensure alternative livelihood for fishermen while imposing bans on fishing, to help them lead a normal life along with their family members during those days.

Today is 18th death anniversary of Sir Shahebzada Syed Fariduddin Ahmed, founder of SF Ahmed & Co, chartered accountants and auditors company established in 1958, says a press release.

Mentioning that consumers owe the government Tk 10,000 crore as utility bills, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid yesterday said action will be taken against the defaulters.

Sudipto Mukerjee, the newly-appointed resident representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Bangladesh, presented his credentials to Foreign Minister Dr A K Abdul Momen yesterday.

For the last five months, Arabiya Afifa, a preschool student in Gandaria, has to walk for around 40 minutes on Dinanath Sen Road every day to go to and return from her institution.

A woman has died and more than 100 people fell sick after having dinner at a wedding ceremony in Sunamganj.

Water cannons spouted as the wheels of Rajhangsha -- Biman Bangladesh Airlines’ fourth brand new Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner -- touched the taxiway of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport yesterday afternoon.