Eighty-one eminent citizens today urged the Chinese government to bring to book Chinese companies involved with SS Power I Plant in Chattogram's Banshkhali upazila, where seven workers were killed in police firing during a protest on April 17.

Police have arrested five more people in the last 24 hours from different parts of Brahmanbaria in connection with the violence and arson carried out by Hefajat-e-Islam activists last month.

The Government of Bangladesh has appointed three Bangladeshi individuals to the prestigious Panels for Arbitrators and Conciliators of the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).

A stone-laden bulkhead capsized at the outer anchorage of Chattogram port this morning.

Bepar Sharief, a Bangladeshi expatriate in Singapore, learnt cooking from his mother in Bangladesh and now runs a successful briyani stall in Singapore.

India has thanked Bangladesh for its offer of medical supplies in the days of crisis and wished the India-Bangladesh friendship will overcome the pandemic together.

Police have registered an abetting suicide case against Bashundhara Group managing director after recovery of a young woman’s body from a Gulshan flat as primarily they think there was instigation behind the suspected suicide.

Bangladesh Islami Front has urged the government to ban Hefajat-e-Islam and Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis for their alleged involvement in anti-state activities across the country.

The UN General Assembly has unanimously adopted a historic resolution on Global Drowning Prevention introduced by Bangladesh. The UN also declared July 25 as "UN Day for Drowning Prevention" to promote awareness, encourage national action, share best practices, and key solutions to drowning.

Police recovered the body of a man from a construction site in Sharankhola upazila of Bagerhat this morning.

Matiur Rahman, first President of Japan-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JBCCI), will receive “the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette.”

Considering the Covid-19 situation, the Dhaka University authorities rescheduled the honours first year admission test for 2020-21 academic session. The admission test of “Cha” unit will be held on July 31.

Akram Hossain, General Secretary of Sadharon Chhatra Odhikar Songrokkhon Parishad's Dhaka University unit, has been placed on a two-day remand, hours after he was arrested from Dhaka airport area today.

Two crew members were killed and three others were injured as a fire broke out in an oil tanker at a private jetty on the southern bank of Karnaphuli river in Chattogram this morning.

Bangladesh Bus-Truck Owners' Association today urged the government to resume public transport from tomorrow, considering the plight of transport owners and workers.

Ashiquzzaman Khan, who was injured in the deadly fire in Old Dhaka's Armanitola on April 23, died at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery last night.

Textiles and Jute Minister Golam Dastagir Gazi has said effective steps are being taken to soon reopen the state-owned jute mills that were closed down last year.

A third gender family filed a case against a group of village arbitrators who they claimed forced them to leave their inherited house at Charghatina village in Sirajganj’s Ullapara upazila.

Three people were killed and another was injured as a truck hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Tarakanda upazila of Mymensingh this morning.

The government today started procurement of paddy directly from farmers at Tk 27 per kg.