The desire expressed by the two Dhaka city mayors to take over the responsibility of drainage management from Dhaka Wasa in a bid to end the capital’s perennial waterlogging problem has widely been regarded as a popular idea.

Veteran journalist and litterateur Rahat Khan passed away at his Eskaton residence in the city last night. He was 79.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday reaffirmed her government’s goal of illuminating every house of the country by next year and urged the people to be frugal with electricity use.

Only one out of four people practiced social distancing in the country in March and April, finds a study.

After months-long stalemate, the government has finally given nod to the icddr,b to run phase-III trial of the Chinese vaccine for Covid-19.

The High Court yesterday summoned two investigation officers in a case in which three accused confessed to raping and killing a class-V female student, who was later found alive in Narayanganj.

This year’s Junior School Certificate and its equivalent exams were cancelled yesterday while Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hinted that students might be promoted without having to sit for class final tests.

A technical committee of the telecom regulatory commission also found that Rohingyas of Ukhia and Teknaf upazilas of Cox’s Bazar were using around three lakh mobile connections of local carriers.

With Khaleda Zia’s suspension of jail sentence ending in less than a month, her family members and lawyers are preparing documents to seek extension of the government order through which she was released for six months.

Suspended police officer Pradeep Kumar Das was accused in a new murder case filed yesterday with a court in Cox’s Bazar.

Lionel Messi has not informed Barcelona coaches he will not attend training on Wednesday, according to the club’s newly-appointed sporting director, Ramon Planes.

Three years on, crimes like murder, abduction, extortion and narcotics smuggling continue to multiply at the world’s biggest refugee settlement in Cox’s Bazar.

Police yesterday closed the investigation officer (IO) of a case that showed a teenage girl of Narayanganj murdered while she was alive in real.

A businessman of the port city yesterday sued seven people, including Major (retd) Sinha murder accused suspended sub-inspector Liaqat Ali and two other policemen, for allegedly extorting Tk 2 lakh from him and threatening to “kill him in a crossfire.”

The deadline for finishing the Padma bridge is going to be extended by more than a year largely due to the pandemic.

The coronavirus situation forced the government to cancel this year’s Primary Education Completion Examination and its equivalent Ebtedayee Education Completion Exam.

After authorities moved to normalise bus services, the railway authorities have also undertaken steps to normalise operation of trains despite the continued rise of new infections and deaths from Covid-19.

Rohingyas across the world yesterday silently observed “Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day” commemorating the brutal military campaign beginning this day in 2017 that forced some 750,000 Rohingyas to flee to Bangladesh.

An estimated 76,000 babies were born in the Rohingya camps in Bangladesh over the past three years, said Save the Children in a new report released today.

The family of a 33-year-old man has accused Rab members of torturing him to death in custody in Chattogram city.