The government has decided to set up five dedicated light engineering industrial parks in Dhaka, Narayanganj, Jashore, Bogura and Narsingdi districts to utilise the potential of the domestic light engineering industry for national economic development.

The physical condition of Ghoraghat Upazila Nirbahi Officer Wahida Khanam, who is undergoing treatment at National Institute of Neurosciences & Hospital, has improved significantly, doctors say.

It was in the 1990s that my Mejho Mama (my mother’s second brother, who is no more) took us to the Russian Cultural Centre in Dhaka to watch a documentary film, “Muktir Gaan”. Then a teenager, my heart was always ready to fall in love. And I did. He was the narrator of the story -- the young man with the black-rimmed, thick glasses and a determined jaw, the one who could not join the frontline freedom fighters because of his myopia. I could feel his heartbreak, the emotions he described on setting his foot on the liberated part of his motherland, my beloved Bangladesh.

The government has designated the Central Police Hospital at Rajarbagh in Dhaka for Covid-19 certificates for police personnel who wish to travel abroad.

Chattogram Port Authority (CPA) fined a vessel owner Tk one lakh for illegally dismantling a vessel on Patenga beach.

Parliament today passed a bill aimed at forming Bangladesh Reference Institute for Chemical Measurements to provide chemical metrology services across the country.

The High Court today summarily rejected a writ petition that sought its directive upon the government to form a high-standing committee to conduct an inquiry into the deaths of 84 wild elephants in Chattogram region in the last 19 years.

To encourage engineering research in the country, a bill is passed in the parliament.

A tribunal in Dhaka has concluded recording the statements of witnesses in an arms case against expelled leader of Jubo Mohila League Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman.

A seven-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a teenage boy in Jashore’s Chaugachha upazila yesterday.

Eighty-four more trains -- mostly local and commuter -- are going to be added to the fleet between September 10 and 16, as Bangladesh Railway (BR) is trying to normalise service.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a petition with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, challenging a High Court order that granted anticipatory bail to Toufique Imrose Khalidi, editor-in-chief of online news portal bdnews24.com, in a corruption case.

Three people, including a man and his minor son, were killed in separate incidents of lightning strikes in Sonatala upazila yesterday.

At least 15 people, including six bullet-hit, were injured in a clash between two groups of ruling party men over capture of a waterbody at Bhatikoya village in Sujanagar upazila on Sunday evening.

A court here on Sunday a sentenced a man to death and two others to life imprisonment for killing a man in Bochaganj upazila in 2012.

Jute acreage is increasing in the district every year as growers, inspired by higher prices, are bringing more lands under cultivation of the cash crop.

The number of Covid-19 patients in eight districts of Rangpur division is on the rise, especially after the Eid-ul-Adha.

Bangladesh Railways has decided to sell half of all train tickets through station counters instead of selling all tickets online from September 12.

Proshanta Kumar Halder, who was allegedly involved with the embezzlement of huge amount of money from the International Leasing and Financial Services Limited (ILFSL), a non-banking financial institution, has said he would return to the country to return the money and settle the transactions and liabilities with the company if he gets proper security of his life.

The government has decided to appoint Md Golam Sarwar as the next High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Malaysia.