Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) board members will discuss a proposal today for extension of Engr Taqsem A Khan’s tenure as the managing director for three more years.

Several trains operating between Dhaka and the western regions of the country got delayed for three to four hours, as rail operations remained suspended for around six hours after an oil-laden train derailed in Gazipur earlier today.

A mob has beaten a truck driver to death in Rajshahi’s Puthia upazila after his truck ran over two goats.

Police arrested the brother of a restaurant owner in connection with a case filed over torturing a 13-year-old employee in Kurigram’s Rajibpur upazila last night.

Condolences poured in from different socio-political parties and Islamic organisations immediately after the demise of Hefazat-e Islam’s chief Ahmad Shafi.

BNP today harshly criticised The Daily Star Editor Mahfuz Anam for his commentary on democracy and alleged that it was against the party.

Four people were killed and 17 others were injured as two buses collided head-on in Magura’s Sadar upazila today.

Shah Ahmad Shafi, amir of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh, who was on life support and was flown to Dhaka just hours back, died while he was being treated at Asgar Ali Hospital this evening.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam, who has tested positive for Covid-19, was taken to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) early this morning after his condition deteriorated.

Four strike forces have been formed to ensure security of the Kashimpur Central Jail at the directive of the prison administration.

A garment worker has died after four of his co-workers pumped air into his body through the rectum in Manikganj said the local police.

Shah Ahmad Shafi, amir of Hefazat-e-Islam, resigned from the post of Director General of Al Jameyatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam Madrasa, popularly known as Hathazari madrasa, amid the student unrest over the last two days.

The people of Dharla River shoal in Kurigram and Lalmonirhat districts are badly affected by the fourth phase flood as the water flows above the danger level.

In 2004, Channel i’s Hridoye Mati O Manush (Soil & People in Heart) featured a unique farmer; the programme was about a young entrepreneur who was cultivating Saudi dates on Bangladeshi soil at Paragaon village in Mymensingh’s Bhaluka upazila. Farmer Motaleb, the enterprising young man became hugely popular through this programme.

A court here on Tuesday sent the expelled chairman of Birgaon Union Parishad (UP) in Nabinagar upazila to jail, rejecting his bail prayer in a case for killing a rickshaw-puller during a clash on April 12.

Scientists at Bangladesh Wheat and Maize Research Institute (BWMRI) in Dinajpur have developed two new wheat varieties with built-in blast disease tolerance. The blast tolerant varieties will raise hope of the farmers across the country.

Negligence of the mosque's committee was behind the explosion at Baitus Salat Jame Mosque in Narayanganj Sadar upazila on September 4, found a probe committee formed by Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited.

Renowned Bangladeshi neurologist, academic and neuro-medicine specialist Professor Dr Quazi Deen Mohammad, also the founding director of National Institute of Neurosciences and Hospital in Dhaka, has placed himself in quarantine.

While a good number of candidates has become frustrated as many of them had crossed maximum age limit for government job during the lockdown period, the latest directive from Ministry of Public Administration (MoPA) brings a ray of hope.

Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad said the government has taken the initiative to provide training to Bangladeshi migrant workers currently living abroad with an aim to create skilled workforce.