A tribunal in Dhaka yesterday framed charges against all 25 accused Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology students in the Abrar Fahad murder case.

The government has extended for six months its earlier order that suspended the jail sentence of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and released her from jail.

Onion prices have shot up dramatically in the country due to panic buying by consumers and price gouging by wholesalers in the immediate aftermath of India’s decision on Monday to suspend onion exports.

The cabinet yesterday approved a draft law allowing the aviation ministry to keep its control over Biman, even though the national flag carrier was turned into a public limited company in 2007 to make it profitable.

The High Court yesterday observed that the managing director of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) is intentionally not implementing a 2011 directive asking it to seal off drains and sewerage lines linked to the Buriganga.

Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) will begin making payments to the laid off workers of 25 shuttered state-run jute mills of the country.

Reopening of the country’s 25 state-run jute mills still remains uncertain as the government proposals for reopening the mills are given a cold shoulder by most of the jute industrialists.

The prison authority has beefed up security across the country following a threats from some unidentified miscreants over phone and letters of “snatching away militant inmates” from jails.

India yesterday banned export of onions with immediate effect, a move more than likely to create a crisis in the markets of Bangladesh.

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Bangladesh has surpassed China in terms of the total number of deaths due to Covid-19 with the health directorate reporting 26 deaths in the past 24 hours till 8:30am yesterday.

The biannual director general-level talks between Border Guard Bangladesh and Indian Border Security Force, scheduled to start yesterday, was postponed as the BSF delegation failed to reach Dhaka.

Some Titas gas company officials are more interested in corruption than providing service to consumers and this leads to casualties due to explosions, energy experts said, while reflecting on the recent Narayanganj mosque fire that has so far claimed 32 lives.

Six leakages in gas pipeline and around 17 percent of the mosque air filled with methane gas caused the blast in Narayanganj, finds the probe of fire service and civil defence.

Deaths caused by Covid-19 rose to 5.81 percent compared to the previous week as Bangladesh entered the 37th week of the first detection of coronavirus case, said a press release from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) yesterday.

Nearly three-quarters of rural households in the country have low level digital access and skills, finds a survey of Brac Institute of Governance and Development.

Expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Chowdhury Samrat, one of the “casino kingpins” in Dhaka, siphoned off Tk 195 crore to Singapore and Malaysia with the help of Enamul Haque Arman, another leader of the ruling party’s youth wing, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police found in an investigation.

Wait of Dhaka dwellers for the maiden metro rail service could linger as a contractor responsible for implementing the first phase of the much-hyped project sought a one-year extension due to the impacts of Covid-19 pandemic.

Father Richard William Timm, an internationally-acclaimed scientist and humanist, who served most of his life serving the people in Bangladesh, passed away in a hospital in the US state of Indiana at 1:20pm on September 11.

Contradicting Rab claim that the Ghoraghat UNO and her father were attacked by a local Jubo League leader, police in Dinajpur yesterday said they arrested a suspended government staffer for his alleged involvement in the incident.