Workers of two garment factories blocked the Dhaka-Joydebpur road in Gazipur city for nine hours since this morning demanding due salaries and arrears.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today formally charged Awami League leader Enamul Haque Enu and three others, including his brother Rupon Bhuiyan, with illegal amassing of assets worth around Tk 69 crore.

A parliamentary body today recommended that informal modes of transport such as Nosimon, Korimon and easy-bikes should be brought under registration.

Migrant workers undergoing mandatory institutional quarantine in Saudi Arabia will get Tk 25,000 as subsidy -- provided by the Bangladesh government, Expatriates’ Welfare Ministry said today.

Around 45 homes, accommodating nearly 23,000 people in two unions of Rangabali upazila of Patuakhali got electricity connection today through a submarine cable line from Bhola’s Char Fasson upazila.

Lieutenant General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed, quarter master general of the Bangladesh Army, has been named as the new chief of the force for the next three years.

Election Commission has postponed elections to 163 union parishads in Khulna, Bagerhat, Satkhira, Noakhali, Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar due to a surge in Covid-19 cases.

A forum observed half-day strike from 6 am to 2 pm today, raising four-point demand for justice for trader Hasan Ali’s murder, whose body was found in an AL leader’s house by police.

A Sylhet-bound train from Dhaka got delayed for an hour after a tree fell on its locomotive in Lawachhara National Park area of Moulvibazar’s Kamalganj upazila this afternoon.

The Ministry of Industries has suspended the operation of a ship-breaking yard in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila over its failure to ensure workers' safety.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today inaugurated 50 model mosques across the country, with hope that the mosques will help disseminate Islamic values among people.

Professor Dr Md Hasibur Rashid of Management Information Systems Department of Dhaka University has been appointed vice-chancellor (VC) of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR) for four years.

The Department of Political Science of Chittagong University has been criticised for issuing a notification asking its students not to write anything on social media.

Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) yesterday condemned the raid of undocumented migrant workers, including Bangladeshis, and called for treating them more humanely in its efforts to curb the Covid-19 pandemic.

Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder today directed the concerned officials to collect paddy from actual farmers.

Jatiya Party (JP) has finalised its candidates for the by-elections to three parliamentary constituencies -- Sylhet-3, Dhaka-14 and Cumilla-5 -- scheduled to be held on July 14.

Coinciding with ‘Mujib Year’, 50 model mosques -- out of total 560 -- are set to be opened simultaneously across the country tomorrow.

In yet another incident of extreme torture, a 32-year-old Bangladeshi female worker has returned home from Saudi Arabia with her 6-month-old.

Four people, including a pedestrian, were critically injured when a covered van fell off Muktarpur Bridge in Munshiganj.

Police recovered a bomb-like object from an under-construction shop in Gobindaganj upazila of Gaibandha this morning.