Claiming that traders are now running their businesses more comfortable than in the past, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan urges them to provide information if anyone extorts money from them.

The High Court summons the civil surgeon of Patuakhali to appear before it on May 22 for giving an explanation of a postmortem report made in connection with a rape and murder case.

Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan urges all people to build awareness to prevent incidents of throwing brick chunks at trains.

The government is considering an option to export rice to benefit the farmers, Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque says.

Dhaka dwellers demand safe water from the state-run agency Wasa at a mass hearing organised on the quality of supply water.

The Dhaka South City Corporation will closely monitor the price situation at different markets in the capital from today in order to contain the price hike of the essentials into a tolerable limit on the occasion of the holy Ramadan.

An international expedition team will study plastic pollution in one of the world’s most iconic waterways - the Ganges River (known locally as Ganga and Padma).

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University Grants Commission (UGC) yesterday approved a budget of Tk 8,088.49 crore for 2019-20 fiscal year for itself and public universities.

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A Rangpur court yesterday sentenced three men to death and four to life imprisonment for killing a trader in Pirganj upazila in 2006.

Although Bangladesh has made significant progress in women’s empowerment, a large segment of girl students in the country still remain absent from classes during menstruation due to inadequate hygiene facilities at their educational institutions, a study has found.

What started out as a happy beginning of a monthly vacation for a family turned worrisome on Sunday night, as the youngest member was knocked out by a stone flying in through a train window.

Abul Mansur Ahmad Smriti Parishad is launching the second edition of an essay contest in honour of the renowned politician, journalist and litterateur, said a press release.

Journalists will hold sit-ins across the country on May 15 to put pressure on the government for implementing their 14-point demand, including gazette notification for the ninth wage board before Eid-ul-Fitr.

With bricks, stone chips, sacks of sand and other equipment taking up almost the entire breadth, the road looks more like a dumping zone for construction materials.

A police informant was stabbed to death in the capital’s Rampura area early yesterday.

Twenty-five eminent personalities in a joint statement yesterday expressed their concern over and condemned the death threats against three renowned citizens of the country.

“Failure is the pillar of success” has come to reality in Shitol Sarker’s life.

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