Around 4,200 shops in 18 markets of Dhaka South City Corporation have been running illegally for years, depriving DSCC a good amount of revenue.

On a visit to Prabartak intersection in the port city last weekend, Chittagong University student Apu Saha became shocked to see the battered state of the sculpture Rupali Guitar, which had been installed in remembrance of the late and great musician Ayub Bachchu.

Five years ago, I was looking for birds at a lake in Florida. The lake had a grid of piers for boat landing. I was walking along one when a reddish-brown bird, medium in size, flew by close to me and started circling above the water.

At least eight people were killed and 14 injured in road accidents across the country yesterday, according to reports from our correspondents and a news agency.

Right after graduating in 2017, Hamim (not his real name) started submitting scholarship applications for master’s programmes abroad. In the meantime, he kept working as a marketing officer for a private organisation.

The law ministry has planned to reduce backlog of at least six lakh cases from the existing 38 lakh cases pending with the courts across the country in 2021.

Farida Yasmin of the Daily Ittefaq made history by getting elected as the first female president of Jatiya Press Club on Thursday.

Retired government secretary Md Ismail Zabihullah has been selected as chairperson of the Foundation and Board of Trustees (BoT) of Eastern University.

A five-year-old, who was found dead in a pond on Tuesday morning in Rangpur, was killed by her neighbour after she protested sexual abuse on her, said police.

Police picked up a journalist after barging into his home on Wednesday in Dinajpur’s Ghoraghat on allegations of writing against a police officer on social media.

The High Court yesterday directed the inspector general of police to give Tk 20 lakh as compensation to Md Arman, a technician at a Benarasi Palli in Mirpur, in 30 days as police personnel have wrongly arrested him and kept him in jail for around five years instead of the original accused in a drug case.

Mongla Port Authority on Wednesday signed a deal with a Chinese company to dredge the inner bar of Mongla Port channel to allow the anchoring of container ships with 10-metre draught.

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The authorities of Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital recently cut off the branches of some trees that were home to a huge number of different species of birds. Amid protests from local environmental activists and conservationists, the director of RMCH admitted to the mistake and said he will refrain from such acts of environmental destruction in the future.

Farida Yasmin of the Daily Ittefaq made history by getting elected as the first female president of the Jatiya Press Club (JPC) today.

The two city corporations of Dhaka today officially took charge from Wasa to maintain 26 canals and 10km box culverts with the hope to reduce the city’s long-standing waterlogging issue.

A sub-inspector of police was killed after a vehicle hit his motorcycle in Dhaka airport area last night.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina donated Tk 10 crore to Dhaka Shishu Hospital to provide free treatment to the children who are born with cardio diseases.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Md Atiqul Islam yesterday announced the plan of constructing a multi-purpose truck terminal at Tejgaon to accommodate all trucks at the area and keep roads truck-free.

North South University (NSU) yesterday organised a virtual discussion session in memory of its recently-deceased founding member and former chairperson MA Hashem.