The government yesterday tasked the FBCCI with mediating between tanners and rawhide merchants to resolve the issue of the tanners’ non-payment of Tk 400 crore to the merchants.

The Islamic State militant group yesterday claimed responsibility for a suicide blast at a wedding reception in Afghanistan that killed 63 people, underlining the dangers the country faces even if the Taliban agree a pact with the United States.

Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar will be arriving in Dhaka today on a three-day visit to further improve the bilateral relations of the two neighbours.

In February 2017, when Dhaka University took back the responsibility of seven government colleges after more than two decades, the university was neither prepared nor adequately staffed to handle the added burden.

Terming the dengue outbreak a big problem, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged people to be aware of the mosquito-borne disease and keep their houses and surroundings clean to prevent the breeding of Aedes mosquitoes.

For the last one week, hospitals outside Dhaka are receiving more dengue patients than those in the capital.

The High Court yesterday expressed dissatisfaction over the activities of two city corporations of Dhaka for controlling mosquito menace.

Indian authorities eased restrictions on movement and restored landline telephone links in some parts of Kashmir on Saturday, the biggest relaxation in a crippling lockdown since New Delhi announced it was removing the region’s special status on Aug 5.

Illegal gas connections via plastic pipes helped Friday night’s fire spread faster, razing almost the entire slum at Mirpur’s Chalantika, fire service officials said.

Although tanners were supposed to start buying rawhide at the government-fixed rates yesterday, merchants refused to sell, demanding the payment of a “considerable” portion of their arrears.

The scenes at Chalantika slum resemble those from a wasteland in a dystopia.

Students and officegoers are most vulnerable to dengue infection, according to a government survey.

Bus and launch terminals and railway stations in the capital witnessed floods of incoming passengers yesterday as most offices and business open today after an extended Eid holiday.

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) officially announced the appointment of former South Africa coach Russell Domingo as head coach of the Bangladesh national team during a press conference in Mirpur yesterday.

A massive fire broke out at a slum in Chalantika area of the capital’s Mirpur last night, burning more than a thousand shanties to ashes. After a three-hour effort, 24 firefighting units brought the fire under control around 10:35pm.

As many as 251 eminent personalities from South Asia, Europe and North America have condemned the Indian government’s scrapping of Kashmir’s special status and curtailment of civil liberties in the valley, saying such acts mean betrayal of the people there.

Many of the JMB men convicted in the August 17 series bomb blast cases walked out of prison after serving their jail term and it remains a big challenge for law enforcers to keep them under surveillance, say counterterrorism officials.

Mexican authorities say federal police found 65 severely dehydrated and hungry migrants from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka wandering on a highway in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz.

UN Security Council members believe India and Pakistan should refrain from taking unilateral action over the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir, China’s UN envoy said yesterday after the council met on the issue for the first time in decades.

Five of a family from Netrakona’s Durgapur upazila lost their lives while two others were critically injured in a road accident on Mymensingh-Kishoreganj highway yesterday.