The 22-year-old was helping prepare for a wedding reception when he was electrocuted while moving a stand fan

Rashtrapati Bhavan had scheduled a rehearsal for the Bangladesh prime minister’s ceremonial welcome before the statement was recalled

Party leaders appointed to Rangamati, Bandarban and Khagrachhari interim bodies

Visitors find no memorabilia, broken facilities, and misuse at site honouring Liberation War hero

The ceremony lasts only minutes, but officials spend weeks managing invitations, protocol and seating for Bangladesh’s top dignitaries

Watchdog says any development of the public asset should proceed through an open, transparent tender process

The death toll from toxic gas exposure at Ferdous Steel Ship Recycling Yard in Sitakunda, Chattogram, rose to 10 after another injured worker died at a private hospital in the port city Wednesday evening.

The impact of the gas crisis that began on July 21 is spreading across the country’s industrial belts, with factories cutting production, shutting units and sending workers on leave.

Local BNP and Awami League leaders are among 20 people accused in a case filed over alleged illegal tree felling and timber trading in Satchari National Park in Habiganj’s Chunarughat.

The Rohingya crisis is putting huge pressure on Bangladesh’s economy and damaging the environment in areas hosting the refugees, Army Chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman said yesterday.

Police have recovered two brass idols stolen from the Radha-Govinda Temple inside the Central Kali Temple in Faridpur’s Nagarkanda upazila and arrested four people in connection with the theft.

The power and energy crisis is expected to abate in winter and visible progress would be seen by next summer, said the prime minister’s finance and planning adviser.

A man was arrested and sent to jail yesterday after locals detained him for allegedly attempting to rape a seven-year-old schoolgirl in Kaliakair, Gazipur, on Wednesday.

State-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Ltd (BAPEX) has launched a fresh exploration drive at Mobarakpur in Pabna, hoping to tap commercially viable gas reserves after an earlier attempt was halted over technological limitations.

A Dhaka court yesterday summarily dismissed a case filed hours earlier against former interim government chief adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus and 26 others over the vandalism and arson at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s residence at Dhanmondi 32.

Bangladesh will seek a higher share of Ganges water when the water-sharing treaty with India is renewed, as the existing 30-year agreement is set to expire in December, State Minister for Water Resources Forhad Hossain Azad said yesterday.

Three political parties registered with the Election Commission last year have violated its rules by failing to submit their annual audit reports, while four others registered in earlier years have also failed to comply.

The government yesterday launched a preventive oral cholera vaccination campaign targeting 51.75 lakh people in 14 high-risk upazilas and thanas.

Kolkata police have arrested the leaseholder of Shikha Inn in connection with a fire that killed nine people, including seven Bangladeshis, at a hotel in the city’s New Market area in the early hours of Wednesday.

Senior Supreme Court lawyer Toufiq Nawaz, husband of former minister Dipu Moni, was laid to rest at Banani Graveyard yesterday afternoon beside the grave of his mother, Khairun Nesa.