Despite tragic loss of lives and properties in repeated building disasters, the country’s national building code has been lying largely unimplemented for 26 years, getting obsolete in the absence of an enforcement authority, said leading professionals.

Only local vessels or vehicles would be used for transporting Indian goods through Bangladesh, according to the draft standard operation procedure for India using Bangladeshi ports.

Traders have hiked onion prices exponentially within a day, capitalising on India’s export ban on the essential spice.

Prof Khondoker Md Nasiruddin finally resigned as the vice chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University (BSMRSTU) in Gopalganj yesterday, a day after an UGC probe found evidence of irregularities and corruption against him.

The High Court has observed that Narail’s Sessions Judge Sheikh Abdul Ahad had made a serious mistake when he exempted the principal accused in a murder case, which is deemed illegal and miscarriage of justice.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has ruled out the possibility of any recurrence of 1/11 in the country, saying that the government is taking stern action against corruption in advance to avoid repeat of such an incident.

The Anti-Corruption Commission will enquire into the illegal wealth of a section of public works department officials, top government-listed contractor SM Golam Kibria Shamim and the people who amassed wealth through the casino business.

A Feni court yesterday set October 24 for delivering the verdict in the Nusrat Jahan Rafi murder case.

A Transparency International Bangladesh survey yesterday said the government’s flood relief distribution activities this year were marred by various irregularities, including using the relief fund to pay for a minister’s visit to flood-affected areas.

His passport records say he went to India on July 3 last year through the Benapole Land Port and flew back home on July 19.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that action against people involved in irregularities will continue irrespective of their political affiliations.

The Directorate General of Drug Administration has imposed a temporary ban on the import, production and sale of heartburn drug ranitidine amid a global concern over the presence of a probable carcinogen in the products.

A UGC probe committee has found evidence of irregularities and corruption against the vice chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University in Gopalganj and has recommended his withdrawal.

The Dhaka-Chattogram highway expansion project is a classic case of how poor planning and bad decisions can cause a huge waste of public money.

A first-year resident of Dhaka University’s Bijoy Ekattor Hall was beaten up on Friday night after he failed to show up at Bangladesh Chhatra League’s programmes.

A rift has emerged in the Chattogram Awami League over Jatiya Sangsad whip Shamsul Hoque Chowdhury’s alleged patronisation of gambling at a sporting club and his son issuing a threat to a senior party leader.

At least 92 people became victims of enforced disappearances last year and 23 of them are still missing, says a new human rights report.

Dhaka South Jubo League President Ismail Chowdhury Samrat who has lately been under the scanner for allegedly running an illegal casino at a club.

Six people died and five others became ill for apparently consuming “toxic alcohol” in Noakhali’s Companiganj upazila on Friday.

The Rural Electrification Board plans to install 457 kilometres of power lines through forests in eight districts, a move vehemently opposed by the forest department.