A private dockyard company has been building two slipways in the Meghna river in Munshiganj’s Gazaria even after the National River Commission asked the firm to stop its work and free the river.

With sacks of paddy piled on both sides of the road at Barmi Bazar in Gazipur, farmers were waiting under the scorching sun to sell their produce at a fair price.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi once said that growth that is not inclusive is not meaningful but just economic figures. And this proclamation seems to be gradually becoming relevant for Bangladesh.

The National River Conservation Commission has warned that it would take legal actions against at least a dozen government authorities for their inaction to free the Meghna from grabbers if they do not act within seven days.

The BNP yesterday alleged that the government was pushing Khaleda Zia towards a tragic consequence through torturing her physically and mentally.

The long wait is over. Bangladesh won a multi-nation tournament after six abortive attempts when they beat West Indies by five wickets at The Village in Dublin in an extraordinary final where the pendulum swung from one end to the other after rain intervened.

After a bitter campaign, India’s marathon election closes today after almost seven weeks awash with insults, violence and fake news.

Stop discrimination and stand by farmers, demanded one placard. Buy rice directly from farmers, said another. Yet another screamed, “Save farmers, save agriculture.”

A man was arrested yesterday for raping a seven-year-old on Friday in Feni, while three others were arrested on charges of attempt to rape, sexual harassment and physical abuse in Pirojpur, Moulvibazar and Netrokona yesterday.

Buddha Purnima, the biggest religious festival of the Buddhist community, is being celebrated in the country today amid festivity and religious fervour.

A section of Dhaka dwellers demonstrated yesterday demanding safe Wasa water and resignation of its managing director Taqsem A Khan for what they said was his failure to carry out his responsibilities properly.

The UN said yesterday it has registered more than 250,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, providing many with their first ever identification cards and proof of their right to return to Myanmar in the future.

Traders in Dhaka's Kachukhet area get ‘death sentence’ over phone if they dare turn down the demand of the caller. Many listed criminals are demanding and taking extortion money from businessmen and traders in some parts of the city, police say.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged all to remain alert so that anti- liberation forces and war criminals cannot return to power.

A clinical Bangladesh team won the tri-nation ODI series in Ireland, their first major series, sans Shakib Al Hasan by registering a scintillating five-wicket win over West Indies by Duckworth Lewis method at The Village ground in Malahide, Dublin yesterday.

Transnational human traffickers use several countries for transits, including India, Sri Lanka, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Turkey, to send Bangladeshi job seekers first to Libya, and then to Europe through the Mediterranean Sea, Rab officials said.

Eight people were killed and several others injured as a nor’wester hit the capital and some northern districts of the country yesterday.

In a baffling move, the central bank yesterday extended a set of unprecedented facilities to defaulters with the view to giving them a fresh lifeline -- stoking fears of further deterioration of the banking sector’s financial health. As per the new policy, defaulters will be allowed to reschedule their classified loans

Frustrated after incurring huge losses, many farmers are demanding that the government procure paddy or rice directly from the growers instead of rice mill owners. “In this system, farmers have no choice but to sell their harvest to local rice mill owners. So, those mid-dlemen become the beneficiary

A month after boasting about its water quality, Dhaka Wasa yesterday revealed that its water is polluted in 57 city areas because of broken-down supply lines. The official water supplier in the city made the admission in a report submitted before the High Court.