July 1 for many reasons could have been a day of mourning, but as I look back at the past six years I see instead, a day of immense significance.

Holey artisan attack victims

Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus considers the Padma Bridge a long-cherished dream of all Bangladeshis, and there was no question of his getting in the way of realising that dream.

Russian forces abandoned the strategic Black Sea outpost of Snake Island yesterday, in a major victory for Ukraine that could loosen the grip of Russia’s blockade on Ukrainian ports. 

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday told a parliament session that the construction cost of Padma Bridge would be realised through toll collection in just 18 to 20 years, which is a much shorter period than anticipated earlier.

The holy Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of the Muslims, will be celebrated across the country on July 10 with due solemnity and religious fervour.

The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) yesterday raised the bus fare for 15 routes via the Dhaka-Mawa-Bhanga Expressway as part of the government’s plan to monetise the country’s first expressway.

A Narail college teacher, who was publicly humiliated by being forced  to wear a garland of shoes around his neck on June 18, has been away  from home since the incident. 

A Dhaka court yesterday rejected the bail pleas of four members of North South University’s trustee board in a Tk 304 crore money laundering case.

Five vegetable traders were killed and four others injured as a lorry driver lost control of the vehicleand ploughed into a crowd in Narsingdi’s Raipura upazila yesterday.

The prime accused in the Ashulia teacher murder case, Ashraful Ahsan Jitu, was the leader of a local teen gang, said Rab.

A special court yesterday sentenced a man to death for committing war crimes in 1971.

At least four people died of coronavirus in 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, reported the Directorate General of Health Services.

Counterterrorism officials arrested another man, who was seen in a video removing nuts and bolts from the railing of Padma Bridge.

Hong Kong has overcome its challenges and “risen from the ashes”, China’s President Xi Jinping said yesterday, as he arrived in the former British colony to celebrate 25 years since its return to Chinese rule.

A meeting of the National Moon Sighting Committee is going to be held today to fix the date of Eid-ul-Azha.

Scotland’s government on Tuesday drew the battle lines for a historic tussle with London as it announced plans to hold a second independence referendum on October 19, 2023. 

Greek coastguards said yesterday 172 migrants had been picked up from a wooden fishing vessel that was struggling in heavy seas as it sought to reach Italy.

Iran warned the US to abandon the “Trump method” yesterday after the two sides opened indirect talks to revive a nuclear deal that was torpedoed by the former American president.

A Khulna court yesterday placed a youth on a two-day remand for allegedly hurting religious sentiment and inciting public anger.