Ferry services on the Paturia-Daulatdia route in the Padma River halted for three hours due to dense fog.

In a major step towards easing the city's crippling traffic congestion, Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has freed the Shyamoli-Aminbazar road in the capital from illegal parking.

A Bangladesh Bank official traumatised by alleged police torture is admitted to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).

Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha joins in the Dhaka city campaign and requests South’s Mayor Sayeed Khokon to take necessary measures in this regard.

The authorities withdraw an assistant superintendent of police and an officer-in-charge from Brahmanbaria following a clash that left a madrasah student dead.

Public university teachers on strike demanding the removal of “pay disparity” in the new national pay scale protests the premier’s warning against their class boycotts.

A special tribunal in Dhaka exonerates a counsel of executed war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury from a contempt of court charge after he offered unconditional apology.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina warns agitating public university teachers against causing any damage to the education life of thousands of students. “Students will not accept it if you continue protests against the new pay scale boycotting classes,” Hasina said at a rally marking Bangabandhu’s Homecoming Day.

A policeman is among two people who have died in separate road crashes in Dhaka last night.

A sub-inspector of Mohammadpur Police Station has been closed for allegedly torturing a Bangladesh Bank official and threatening to implicate him in a lawsuit if he fails to pay a Tk 5 lakh bribe.

Riddled with traffic congestion since morning, the agonising road situation in Dhaka is likely to pursue throughout the day, authorities fear.

The industries minister issues instructions to close down tanneries which will fail to relocate from Hazaribagh to Savar in 72 hours. Allocation of plots in Savar industrial park will also be cancelled in such cases, according to the instructions.

Dhaka South City Corporation evicts hundreds of illegal makeshift shops in Gulistan area of Dhaka.

A human haullier has ran over a man on the Bou Bazar bridge in Old Dhaka early today.

A special tribunal in Dhaka will deliver its verdict any day in a war crimes case against two alleged Razakars of Netrakona as the trial proceedings concluded.

The Akheri Munajat, seeking spiritual well-being and welfare of the Muslim Ummah, of the first phase of three-day Biswa Ijtema ends.

At least two people are killed as a bus and a truck collide head-on at Dhaka’s Turag on the Abdullahpur-Ashulia road.

BNP Chief Khaleda Zia committed the same crime as war criminals did in 1971 through her destructive politics in early 2015, and there will be no mercy for such offences, says Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Shia Muslims in Dhaka today protested the execution of a prominent Shia cleric carried out by the Sunni Muslim majority Saudi Arabia on January 2.

Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia have expressed their firm resolve to cooperate in the fight against terrorism and extremism through meaningful cooperation.