Macroeconomic stability, fiscal and debt management, and domestic resource mobilisation are the major areas Bangladesh need to keep its focus on, Asian Development Bank officials said yesterday referring to what the country can learn from the ongoing economic crisis in Sri Lanka.

The wait for the completion of the Padma Bridge is set to prolong as the prime minister said yesterday that the bridge would be open to public by the end of the year.

People’s trust in the Election Commission has eroded drastically because of its failure to hold the last two general elections in a free and fair manner, said senior journalists.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday ruled out the possibility of an economic crisis like the one in Sri Lanka as the Bangladesh economy is in a sound state.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said there may have been some excesses while enforcing the Digital Security Act, but the government is now very careful to make sure the law is not misused.

Dhaka Wasa managing director said he gets foul-smelling tap water at home too but assured that it was harmless.

Reaffirming the importance of protecting human rights and freedom of religion, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said lifting sanctions and resuming training of Rab might take time but he recognised the agency’s crucial counterterrorism role.

Opposition BNP and Jatiya Party MPs in parliament yesterday came down heavily on Article 70 of the constitution saying that lawmakers cannot speak freely because of this provision.

Sri Lanka’s president lost his parliamentary majority yesterday as dozens of lawmakers walked out of ruling coalition and urged his resignation, following days of street protests over the island nation’s crippling economic crisis.

For the second day in a row, many neighbourhoods in the capital suffered an acute gas crisis yesterday, as the authorities struggled to fix the technical problems that occurred at Bibiyana Gas Field in Sylhet on Sunday.

Covid-19 has taken a heavy toll on privately run primary schools, resulting in permanent closure of 14,111 of the institutions just in one year as they failed to bear the operational costs, says a government report.  

Sri Lanka’s opposition yesterday dismissed the president’s invitation to join a unity government as “nonsensical” and instead demanded he resign over the country’s worsening shortages of food, fuel and medicines.

Amid outrage on social media and beyond, Dhaka Metropolitan Police yesterday suspended constable Nazmul Tareque, who was accused of harassing a college teacher for wearing a "teep" on her forehead.

The speed at which the National Emergency Helpline (999) responds to distress calls is much slower than that of developed countries due to an outdated operating system and manpower shortage.

Pakistan’s political turmoil deepened yesterday, when Prime Minister Imran Khan avoided an attempt to oust him and sought fresh elections after dissolving parliament, a move the opposition called treasonous and vowed to fight.

Suborna Mustafa yesterday expressed serious resentment in parliament over the harassment of a Tejgaon College teacher, allegedly by a policeman, for wearing a ‘teep’.

Police recovered the body of a child from a septic tank yesterday, 10 days after she went missing, in Noakhali’s Chatkhali upazila.

Police yesterday arrested a man for allegedly abetting the suicides of two Santal farmers in Rajshahi’s Godagari upazila last month.

Muslims in Bangladesh have started observing the holy month of Ramadan, the lunar month of self-purification through fasting and abstinence, from today as the new crescent moon was sighted yesterday.

A 14-year-old boy died yesterday after his co-worker in Anwara Mannan Textile Mill at Sreepur pumped air through his rectum.