Department of Environment (DoE) Chattogram region fined GPH Oxygen Plant and Standard Lube Oil Limited Tk 5.8 lakh for violating the environment conservation act and polluting environment.

Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) suspended ferry services on Shimulia-Kathalbari route for two hours this morning. At that time, BNP leaders were scheduled to cross the river to attend a rally in Barishal city, they alleged.

Two students of a polytechnic institute were killed after a truck hit their bicycle in Chapainawabganj Sadar area this morning.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has started a drive against signboards and nameplates in English language instead of Bangla in the capital’s Rampura and Gulshan areas.

For the first time, the Indian government has approved financial powers for the entire top brass of the country's armed forces. Earlier, only the chiefs and the vice chiefs of the three services -- the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force -- were allowed to make such decisions.

Three cases have been filed in connection with yesterday’s clash between transport workers and police, Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) staffers following attempt to evict an illegal microbus stand on Chowhatta-Amberkhana road in Sylhet.

Two unidentified teenagers were killed and one was injured in a motorcycle accident in Gaibandha’s Gobindaganj upazila this morning.

A domestic worker sustained critical injury on her throat at her employer’s house in Dhaka’s Naya Paltan area this morning.

A Dhaka tribunal today cleared Mohammad Erfan Salim, son of Awami League leader and lawmaker Haji Mohammad Salim, from an arms case as prosecution did not file any petition seeking further investigation.

An unidentified person was killed on the spot after being run over by a Dhaka-bound train of Chitra Express at Khulna Railway Station this morning.

A strategic environmental assessment is being carried out for the south-western part of the country as part of the government's commitment to conservation of the Sundarbans, Environment, Forests and Climate Change Minister Md Shahab Uddin said.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal today said the prisons will be turned into correction centres to rehabilitate prisoners back to normal life in line with the direction of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

The labour market for Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia will resume only after the Covid-19 situation turns normal in the Southeast Asian country, Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad said today.

Twenty science and technology, and general public universities are set to hold centralised admission tests in June-July.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged Sri Lanka to invest more in Bangladesh, particularly in its special economic zones (SEZs).

The first year honours admission test at Jahangirnagar University (JU) for academic year 2020-21 will begin on June 6.

First phase of staggered elections of union parishads (UP) will begin on April 11, the Election Commission said today.

Planning Minister MA Mannan today said that metro rail will start running from Uttara to Agargaon in Dhaka from Victory Day (December 16) this year.

A mobile court of Department of Environment (DoE) today fined four brick kilns Tk 20 lakh for environment pollution in Kaliganj upazila of Gazipur.

The High Court directs the BTRC to remove the content of Al Jazeera’s report titled “All the Prime Minister's Men” from all online platforms.