The inner bar dredging of Mongla Port started today to increase the port’s capacity and ensure smooth arrival of ships at the port jetty. State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury inaugurated the dredging project at Jaymonir Ghol in Mongla today.

The season’s first nor’wester lashed the capital Dhaka and some other parts of the country.

Around 5,000 metres of illegal fishing nets were seized and three mechanised boats engaged in sand lifting were destroyed in Halda River today.

Leaders and activists of left leaning organisations remembered Shaheed Moin Hossain Raju, an activist of Bangladesh Chhatra Union, who was gunned down at Dhaka University campus area, where the Anti-Terrorism Raju Memorial Sculpture is situated now, on this day in 1992 while protesting terrorism in the name of student politics.

A garment worker was burned to death in a fire at his house at Nagarchar in Rajphulbaria of Savar, early today.

Formerly incarcerated cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore underwent surgery today for the wound in his right ear.

At least one person was killed and 18 others injured in a clash today over a murder case filed four years’ back in Brahmanbaria’s Kosba upazila.

A worker was killed as a mosquito coil factory in Bogura Sadar upazila caught fire this morning.

Dhaka's air quality is still "unhealthy". It is now sixth in the list of cities with the worst air quality.

Two persons were killed and six were injured as a lorry hit a microbus carrying a group of musicians on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Chattogram’s Mirsarai upazila early today.

A leopard cat died after being crushed under the wheels of a vehicle while crossing a road in Janakichhara area of Lawachhara forest in Moulvibazar’s Kamalganj upazila today.

A recent upward trend in daily coronavirus infection rate could force the government to keep educational institutions shut longer than expected.

A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) raided three factories in Dhaka’s Keraniganj area and destroyed fake and substandard cosmetics worth Tk 10 lakh.

After spending four months behind bars for a crime he didn't commit, a day labourer has been released from Jashore Central Jail.

At least two people were killed and five others injured as a passenger bus collided with an easy bike at Abhaynagar upazila of Jashore today.

Police today arrested a man in a case filed for attempting to rape a 10th grader in Kalapara upazila of Patuakhali.

A group of women from different organisations brought out a procession earlier today for democracy in Dhaka.

A 16-year-old was hacked to death at Halishahar area of Chattogram city last night.

Two people were killed and one other injured in a road accident at Kamalapur village in Panchagarh Sadar upazila early today as a tractor carrying an excavator fell into a roadside ditch.

A ruling party man was critically injured after he was stabbed by his rival men during an intra-party clash between two Awami league groups at the AL party office in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila yesterday night.