Severe health threats from the toxic liquid chemical Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs), popularly known as transformer oil, have remained unaddressed till date, and action has to be taken in this regard immediately, speakers at a project inception workshop said yesterday.

Eminent freedom fighters and citizens yesterday demanded that the government bring the then Pakistan army under trial for carrying out war crimes during the Liberation War in 1971.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claims to have detained an alleged drug peddler with 9,910 pieces of yaba pills from Kotwali area of Chattogram city.

The parliament passes the Finance Bill 2019 with some changes in value-added tax (VAT) and in the policy of capital market and handloom industry.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina describes the proposed budget for FY 2019-20 as people-friendly, development-oriented and balanced one, saying that everyone will be benefitted by the budget as it will help continue the pace of ongoing development.

Illegal parking has become prevalent in the capital simply for lack of enforcement of traffic rules, intensifying gridlocks and causing nuisance to pedestrians and commuters, according to experts.

Thirty-year-old Bellal Hossain could not dig any grave in the last three months as he has been indisposed with lower back pain -- due to digging work for the last 10 years at Jurain graveyard.

Students of Rajshahi University (RU) formed a human chain yesterday, demanding scrapping of value added tax (VAT) on sanitary pads -- proposed in the budget.

It was two hours before sunset when I entered Hail Haor, though you couldn’t tell the time from the grey sky. The road had weaved through half a dozen villages before the land and the sky abruptly opened up all around me. Inside the Haor, the rice fields were glowing with soft green rice seedlings and the beels were brimming with monsoon water.

Another Rajshahi University student has accused a teacher of sexually harassing her. The teacher had faced similar allegation earlier.

BNP has welcomed the newly formed platform by Liberal Democratic Party President Oli Ahmed called “Jatiya Muktimancha”.

Father of Raifa yesterday rejected the investigation report submitted by Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council and demanded punitive measures against the doctors involved in the death of his daughter.

As part of United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) commitment to “leave no one behind”, the innovation lab of its Access to Information (a2i) Programme officially handed over two low-cost ambulances to Research Training and Management International (RTMI) in Cox’s Bazar on Thursday.

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

Today is the 146th death anniversary of Michael Madhusudan Dutt, legendary Bengali poet and father of the Bengali sonnet.

A faction of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) -- who failed to get posts in its new committee -- yesterday began a hunger strike demanding the drop of controversial figures from the student wing and reconstruction of the central committee.

Eminent environmentalist and rights activist Sultana Kamal yesterday claimed that the establishment of Rampal power plant close to the Sundarbans was illegal and anti-constitutional.

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Leaders of different social and political platforms at a discussion yesterday slammed Jatiya Oikyafront for failing to launch any movement against the government.

Dhaka University’s pharmacy department has said that it would not take any responsibility of the research findings that claimed antibiotics and detergent were found in milk.