What immediately catches a visitor’s eye in Shariatpur’s Nalta village is colourful, multi-storey buildings standing out against the rural surroundings.

Residents have been facing severe commuting problems since a 100-foot section of a busy road in Chattogram city collapsed into an adjacent canal on Saturday night.

Speakers at a roundtable yesterday called for immediate reforms in policing and freeing the police from political patronage.

The 11-party alliance led by Jamaat-e-Islami has demanded “visible and strict” action from the government to stop illegal push-ins, border killings, and torture along the Bangladesh-India border.

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday set June 28 for delivering its verdict against five former police officers in a crimes against humanity case over the killing of two people and the shooting of two others in Rampura during the July 2024 uprising.

A father yesterday told International Crimes Tribunal-1 how he found his teenage son’s body among several gunshot victims at a hospital during the July uprising in 2024.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Shaikh Rabiul Alam yesterday told parliament that despite a High Court ban, battery-run three-wheelers continue to ply highways.

Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed yesterday said the search committee for appointing the chairman and commissioners of the Anti-Corruption Commission will be formed soon, as the chief justice has nominated his representative.

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman yesterday directed the authorities concerned to swiftly relocate the four inter-district bus terminals from Dhaka to areas outside the capital to ease chronic traffic congestion and modernise the city’s traffic management system.

The foreign ministry yesterday summoned Indian Deputy High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pawan Badhe and expressed its displeasure after Prime Minister’s Adviser on Policy and Strategy Affairs Dr Zahed Ur Rahman was stopped by Indian immigration authorities at Delhi airport on Sunday.

The High Court yesterday granted ad-interim bail to former MP and singer Momtaz Begum in three cases filed over the killings of two persons and an attempted murder during the July 2024 uprising.

State Minister for LGRD Mir Shahe Alam in parliament yesterday insisted that two unions were not named after his sons and that the names matching was purely a coincidence.

Hundreds of people from several villages have been using a risky wooden bridge in Mymensingh’s Bhaluka upazila for years.

Islami Bank’s interim Chairman Mohammad Zahir Hossain yesterday urged depositors to put to bed two weeks of turmoil at the beleaguered Shariah-based lender and continue their banking activities without hesitation.

Arafat Hossen once owned Hotel Fultoli, a small establishment at Parki Beach on the Anwara upazila coastline.

For Urmi Dhar, life was already a daily struggle.

At least seven people were injured in a head-on collision between a passenger bus and a cargo truck on the Khulna-Mongla highway in Bagerhat’s Mongla yesterday afternoon.

The proposed national budget for fiscal year 2026-27 carries the language of a welfare-oriented state with expanded attention to disadvantaged groups,

Members of the NSI yesterday seized around 3,00,000 fish fry in 13 plastic drums while allegedly being trafficked illegally from Barishal.

The government plans to form an independent media commission with quasi-judicial authority, similar to the UK’s Ofcom or the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), by uniting all mass media outlets.