A nuclear reactor and a steam generator, the key components of the first unit of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, arrived in Bangladesh yesterday, paving the way for completing the main phase of the mega project.

Attaching importance to infrastructural investment, the government set up Bangladesh Infrastructure Finance Fund Limited (BIFFL) in 2011 with Tk 1,600 crore in paid-up capital.

The Dhaka University authorities yesterday decided to hold admission tests in divisional cities.

The parliamentary standing committee on environment has decided to make the list of 90,000 individuals and organisations public who have grabbed around 2.87 lakh acres of forestland across the country.

Air pollution led to 1,73,500 deaths in Bangladesh last year, says a global report as experts find the country’s air becoming increasingly poisonous in the absence of effective measures to control the release of pollutants.

Caving in to the pressure from businesspeople, the government yesterday raised the price ceiling for potato by Tk 5 to Tk 35 per kg at retail markets.

The High Court yesterday issued a rule asking the government’s authorities concerned to explain in two weeks why photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol should not be granted bail in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.

At least 25 people, including three police personnel, were injured in a clash between police and jute mill workers on Khulna-Jashore highway yesterday morning.

Md Yasin, a Bangladeshi youth, took a perilous journey from Oman to Bosnia and Herzegovina two years ago, with a dream of making it to a rich European country.

The railways ministry has asked Bangladesh Railway (BR) to remove project director Ramzan Ali from the Akhaura-Laksham Dual Gauge Double Line Project after a corruption case was filed against him.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has once again called upon people to always wear face masks while out of the home as it reduces Covid-19 infection risks.

A tribunal in Bagerhat has delivered its verdict in a rape case in just seven work days, setting what experts said was a record for the fastest disposal of a criminal case.

Girls as young as nine to 15 are first targeted on different social media, especially Instagram, and then they are provoked by different sexual content.

The family of slain Swechchasebak League leader Masudur Rahman Shuvra has alleged that a local faction of the ruling party was behind his killing while party leaders blame the BNP for the murder.

Fourteen more people have died from Covid-19 in the 24 hours ending at 8:00am yesterday, said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The increase comes on top of the previously estimated rates of child marriage, which already anticipated 12 million girls being forced into marriage this year.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Bangladesh on March 26 next year to attend the celebrations marking 50 years of the country’s independence.

Independent lawmaker Mujibur Rahman Chowdhury, known as Nixon Chowdhury, yesterday sought anticipatory bail from the High Court in a case over violations of the electoral code of conduct during by-polls in Faridpur’s Charbhadrasan upazila.

When one thinks of a char, the idea of swaths of land -- barren or cultivable -- comes to the mind. Bhasan Char, a remote island in Hatiya, however, is completely different.

Around 25,000 aspiring migrant workers are facing new hassles as Saudi Arabia asked them to resubmit documents for reissuing their visas, expired amid coronavirus pandemic.