A Sunamganj court yesterday granted bail to the prime accused in cases filed in connection with the attack on Hindu houses in Naogaon village of the district’s Shalla upazila on March 17.

Upgradation of Dhaka Bypass Road into a four-lane access-control expressway under the first-ever Public Private Partnership project of Roads and Highways Department (RHD) is finally making progress.

Having gotten used to a hand-to-mouth existence, and at times even worse, Birangona Shila Guha could never imagine that she would have her own a house with running water and electricity.

A parliamentary watchdog yesterday expressed extreme disappointment over the absence of DGHS Director General ABM Khurshid Alam in its meeting.

Trail-blazing space reproduction research that yielded healthy baby mice produced using freeze-dried sperm stored for years in orbit is showing the possibilities of procreation beyond Earth, with future implications for humans exploring the cosmos.

Surobala Das, 60, a landless single mother of three from Brahmanbaria cannot believe her luck.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was sworn in yesterday for a second term as head of the world body, promising to draw on the lessons of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic.

The government is planning to find out how many vehicles operate in the capital as well as the capacity of its streets.

The wife of Abu Taw Haa Muhammad Adnan, a young Islamic preacher who remained missing for six days along with three others, again urged the authorities to take steps for their immediate safe return.

Noted actor Swatilekha Sengupta passed away at a hospital in Kolkata yesterday after a long battle with kidney ailments.

The Hajj and Umrah Management Bill 2021 was passed in parliament yesterday aiming to ensure the smooth performing of hajj and umrah and remove irregularities and mismanagement in the sector.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced yesterday that she will offer a formal apology to New Zealand’s Pacific community over “demeaning” police raids that targeted them in the 1970s.

The government is finally going to fix the economic service life of all commercial vehicles, including buses and trucks, more than two years after a high-powered committee recommended it.

A parliamentary body yesterday recommended taking necessary measures to find alternatives to a female upazila nirbahi officer’s presence during the guard of honour given to valiant freedom fighters after their deaths.

Noted Bengali filmmaker Buddhadeb Dasgupta passed away at his Kolkata residence yesterday.

Dhaka has been ranked the fourth least liveable city in the world by the Economist Intelligence Unit’s annual global survey.

A drought without incessant rains or severe storms have blessed four mango-producing districts in Rajshahi division with good yields but the region’s farmers are yet to see good fortune.

The surveys conducted by private think-tanks to deduce the number of new poor due to the pandemic do not stand scientifically, said Planning Minister MA Mannan yesterday.

Noted zoologist and wildlife expert Mohammed Anisuzzaman Khan passed away on Monday, leaving behind his wife, son, daughter, siblings, and a host of friends and well-wishers to mourn his death.

The government has revoked the state gallantry awards of four convicted killers of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.