Pipeline work of an underground and river water treatment plant has started in Manikganj today. The Department of Public Health Engineering’s project will supply clean water in 37 districts.

Nazma Begum Shopna was weeping outside the Sattola slum and trying to go to her shanty for her belongings -- all burnt in the fire at Dhaka’s Mohakhali this morning.

A 33-member new committee of Hefajat-e-Islam was announced today, dropping all leaders involved in violent protests at different parts of the country from March 25 to 28.

Asian Development Bank (ADB) must now prioritise climate change, while continuing to support economic recovery and the Covid-19 vaccination programme in Bangladesh, says a report released by ADB’s Independent Evaluation Department (IED).

Over 500 shanties were gutted as a fire broke out at a slum in Dhaka's Mohakhali area early today.

“One of my eardrums was ruptured due to the torture. Now a special device has been placed in that ear. I still can't walk properly due to pain in my legs. I had an eye surgery recently... Not just signs of torture, I'm living with the pain of a monstrous blow,” says Cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore.

The owner of a four storied building and a hosiery factory mischievously asked for government aid meant for the poor, which prompted the UNO Arifa Zahura to take prompt action against him. He was given the choice of feeding 100 helpless people or getting jailed for three months. Initially, the news was just like that.

The government has decided to send Tk 25,000 as “subsidy” for the hotel quarantine fee for Saudi Arabia-bound migrant workers to their bank accounts.

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

A Dhaka court today rejected bail petitions of five university students and sent them to jail in connection with a case filed for possessing the hallucinogenic drug LSD.

Despite repeated assurances from the authorities concerned on ending waterlogging, parts of Chattogram city witnessed severe waterlogging today as in previous years.

The medical board -- of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) -- formed for physical check-up of cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore, who suffered in custody from May 2 to May 4 last year, did not find any signs of torture.

The government has extended the ongoing countrywide restriction on public movement and transport till June 16 amid a surge in the Covid-19 cases.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained five Bangladeshis who were entering the country illegally from India through Baghadanga and Shyamkur border areas in Jhenaidah's Maheshpur upazila.

The old-age allowance of 104-year-old Lokman Hossain Mondol, from Pabna’s Sujanagar upazila, has been halted by the local office of Social Welfare Department as the Election Commission’s updated voter list marked him as “deceased”.

Tk 6,434 crore has been collected as toll so far from Bangabandhu Bridge since its inauguration in 1998, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader told the parliament today.

Two cousins died after lightning hit them in the front yard of their house in Feni.

Bangladesh National Archive Bill, 2021 was placed in the parliament today, keeping provisions that no record can be destroyed, and every record has to be archived.

Residents in Kurigram’s Bajra union now below poverty line after losing all to erosion by Teesta river.

A Dhaka University student died after fire officials found her in unconscious state in a sublet room at government staff quarters in Palashi area and rushed her to hospital this morning.