India has agreed to hold the Joint River Commission (JRC) meeting on solving outstanding issues relating to water sharing, especially the Teesta deal, with Bangladesh soon.

A project undertaken more than five years ago to convert the metre gauge railway line into dual gauge from Akhaura to Sylhet is likely to see further delay as questions have been raised over its rationale and high cost.

“It is a jail, isn’t it? Have you ever heard that a person lived happily in a jail?”

US President Donald Trump on Sunday faced allegations that he paid little or no federal income tax for years before he came to power, as his cloudy financial past stoked controversy ahead of the first election debate.

Another 32 migrants, who have returned to the country recently, were thrown into jail yesterday after completion of their quarantine period.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) yesterday demanded that the Digital Security Act 2018 be reviewed with its “repressive” provisions dropped to ensure the free flow of information and press freedom.

Militant outfit “Neo JMB” has declared its new chief and brought changes in the top leadership as the IS-inspired terror group is trying to get back on its feet by reorganising its structure.

Regent Group Chairman Mohammad Shahed has been sentenced to life imprisonment in an arms case.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen to place a comprehensive report over sending back the stranded expatriates to their workplaces abroad.

Implementation of government’s stimulus package, announced to absorb the economic shock from the coronavirus pandemic, saw a mixed progress as around 26 percent of the massive Tk 111,141-crore scheme was disbursed in four months till July.

The government, alongside the private actors, itself encroaches on rivers it is supposed to protect, speakers at a discussion said yesterday.

All the nine rapists who raped a Chakma girl are professional robbers and they confessed about their crimes, police said in a press conference in Khagrachhari.

Baku and Yerevan put themselves on a war footing after heavy fighting erupted yesterday between Azerbaijan and Armenian separatists, claiming military and civilian casualties on both sides.

Ten years ago, Uday Singha Palash, a student of Murari Chand College and a Bangladesh Chhatra League activist, was murdered in Sylhet city’s Tilagarh area in a factional clash.

Migrant workers, who had been stranded at home ever since they came back from Saudi Arabia for holidays, yesterday said they were worried about the renewal of their work permits despite assurance from Bangladesh government.

Around 68 percent of the people who had to stop working in urban areas of Dhaka and Chattogram due to the pandemic have lost their jobs, according to a World Bank report.

Eminent jurist and Attorney General of the republic Advocate Mahbubey Alam is no more.

Directors general came and went, but the power and influence that the health directorate driver gained stayed.

Coronavirus deaths could more than double to two million without collective action against the pandemic, the World Health Organization has warned, as resurgence of cases across the world forced governments around the world to impose fresh curbs.

On Friday night around 8:00, a married couple was visiting the college campus when the suspects forced both of them to the hostel and gang-raped the wife while keeping the husband tied with a rope.