He is an academician who teaches English literature at a private university in the capital.

The government has decided not to penalise commercial vehicles for violations of several key sections of the Road Transport Act-2018 until June next year

Customs officials recovered 70 gold bars worth Tk 3.5 crore from a toilet at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram yesterday.

A 250-bed hospital in Dhanmondi produces about 4,000 litres of liquid waste a day. The liquid is treated to ensure that it doesn’t spread infection when disposed of.

Many healthcare facilities across the capital have been breaching their legal obligations on safe disposal of medical waste, but a decade-old system is failing to hold them accountable.

Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation will enforce a countrywide 72-hour strike in January if their demand for bringing “necessary amendments” to the Road Transport Act-2018 is not met.

Sixty-year-old Abdur Rashid Bepari and his family members were on their way to Dhaka’s Kamrangirchar to have his son’s marriage registered yesterday.

Not long ago, flyers and posters could be seen on utility poles and the walls of buildings, footbridges and road dividers across the capital before any big event of the ruling Awami League or any of its associate bodies.

The Indian subcontinent’s first day-night Test was ushered in with pomp and circumstance at the iconic Eden Gardens in Kolkata yesterday, when India and Bangladesh faced off in the second and final Test match of Bangladesh’s first multi-format tour of India.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday showed interest in importing bicycles from Bangladesh.

Pink fever has taken over Kolkata and myriad arrangements were in full flow for Bangladesh and India’s first ever pink-ball Test, which will get underway from 1:30pm (Bangladesh time) today.

He is an apparent big shot in the black market of medical recyclables. Probably in his late thirties, the man keeps close supervision over his business and is careful to leave no footprints behind.

A worker hacks away at a pipe-like object at a small scrap shop in Old Dhaka’s Islambagh. The sound of his hammer crashing against the pipe is instantly followed by bits of plastic flying off in all directions. Flecks of yellow and red tint the air.

Following a government directive, several private business conglomerates are importing onions to immediately check the skyrocketed price of the essential cooking spice.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged everyone not to pay heed to propaganda about shortage of onion and salt in the market.

People suffered in different parts of the country for the fourth consecutive day yesterday as transport workers continued their wildcat strike in nine districts demanding amendments to Road Transport Act-2018.

The world’s major fossil fuel producers are set to bust global environmental goals with excessive coal, oil and gas extraction in the next decade, the United Nations and research groups said yesterday.

Bangladesh has said it believes reconciliation can be a critical enabler for resolving the Rohingya humanitarian crisis, the brunt of which it is bearing.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines yesterday waived its cargo handling charges for onion imports, hours before the first consignment of Pakistani onions landed at Dhaka airport.

A suspected drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with members of Rapid Action Battalion in Hazaribagh area of the capital early yesterday.