The authorities concerned must ensure proper treatment of all types of liquid waste before releasing those into rivers in order to keep Rajshahi’s Padma and Barnoi rivers free from pollution, speakers said at a meeting in the city yesterday.

The High Court yesterday questioned a lower court order that granted bail to convicted lawmaker Mohammad Shahid Islam alias Kazi Papul’s wife and daughter in a Tk 148.41 crore laundering case.

They were all aged between 16 and 17 -- members of a teen gang named “Bandage Group” in Mugda. To establish dominance in the area, they often fought over trivial issues.

Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad yesterday said they are taking measures and putting out new rules to ensure that migrant workers do not pay a price that would cripple them economically.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked all concerned to present the authentic history of the Liberation War before the new generation.

Top Bangladeshi cricketer Shakib Al Hasan has called upon people from all walks of life to stand beside people of chars and climate-impacted areas, marginalised and deprived of fundamental rights due to their proximity to the coast.

Three people have gone missing after a goods-laden engine-run boat capsized in the river Karnaphuli yesterday morning.

A newborn was found in a bush near Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka yesterday morning. The baby girl, aged only a day or two, was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital after an airport cleaner found her abandoned.

Dr Sayeed Hasan Shikdar, chief (additional secretary) of planning division, has been appointed as the new chairman of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha.

Dr Sayeed Hasan Shikdar, chief (additional secretary) of the planning division has been appointed as the new chairman of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) today.

A newborn was found in a bush near Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka this morning.

Activists of Greater Khulna Development Movement Coordination Committee (GKDMCC) staged a sit-in this morning in front of Khulna Development Authority (KDA) office, saying there is no development in the region.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday granted bail to Mohammad Asif, who was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment by a tribunal in a case filed over the death of his wife and Rajshahi University student Wahida Sifat in 2015.

Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (Bapa) yesterday placed a 15-point demand, which includes closing down all under-construction coal-based power plants near Sundarbans and stopping industrialisation at sensitive areas to save the largest mangrove forest in the world.

Chattogram Metropolitan Police yesterday arranged meals at a restaurant for 200 underprivileged children from ten schools and madrasas as part of

Five people died and four were injured in road accidents across the country in the last two days.

To save canals, rivers and waterbodies in Dhaka, fecal sludge management is very important and authorities should take immediate steps for its proper management, said speakers at a workshop yesterday.

Dumping of domestic waste just outside households in the open is ruining Chattogram’s city’s environment, but it would be unfair to blame residents of the port city alone.

Today is the 52nd death anniversary of Shaheed Sergeant Zahurul Haque.

The government has plans to make the Bangladesh Coast Guard (BCG) an independent force as they will have their own manpower.