Dhaka South City Corporation mayor Shiekh Fazle Noor Taposh yesterday asked all utility service providing organisations to inform all their development projects to DSCC by October 1, to bring all work under coordination.

India is thinking of opening regular visas for Bangladeshi travellers, the country’s ambassador said yesterday.

In a bid to check ticket-scalping, Bangladesh Railway is going to strengthen enforcement of relevant laws that include three-month jail term.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Barrister Fazle Noor Taposh has said that all development projects centring the capital should be carried out in coordination with the city corporations within October 1.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has issued guidelines for vehicular movement in the capital ahead of the National Mourning Day to be observed on August 15.

A former sub-inspector of Kadamtali Police Station in Dhaka and eight others were sued in an abduction and extortion case today.

Gas supply in some areas of the capital has remained suspended due to relocation work of gas pipelines from Mohakhali Bus Terminal to Moghbazar rail crossing.

Customs officials have detained a man and seized around 3.7 kilograms of gold at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

To commemorate International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, Bangladesh Indigenous Peoples Forum (BIPF) yesterday organised a webinar. The online event focused on Covid-19 and indigenous people’s situation.

Divided in multiple groups, they mostly targeted shopping malls in Dhaka -- each team assigned a specific task.

After five months, the regular functions of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court resumed yesterday on a limited scale following the health guidelines.

Yousuf Ali (30) joined the forest department on 20 February this year.

The second death anniversary of veteran journalist and freedom fighter Golam Sarwar will be observed today.

Bangladeshi youths, who are one-third of the total population, might become a burden for the country instead of assets due to tobacco addiction, Progga, a platform of anti-tobacco campaigners, said yesterday.

The Supreme Court yesterday summoned Advocate Syed Mamun Mahbub to appear before it on August 20 for posting a derogatory status about Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain on social media platform Facebook.

A transport aircraft of Bangladesh Air Force -- carrying 71 repatriated Bangladeshi nationals from Lebanon -- returned home yesterday after handing over humanitarian assistance to victims of the horrific explosion in Beirut, Lebanon on August 4.

The proposed Lego set of Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban, the Bangladesh National Parliament, is now in the finals of Lego Ideas, an online platform where individuals can submit ideas to toy manufacturer The Lego Group for commercial manufacturing, after it gathered 10,000 supporters.

A South Korean company is going to be appointed for maintenance and toll collection after construction of the much-hyped Padma Bridge is completed.

A Dhaka court today placed five members of banned militant outfit “Neo JMB" on a seven-day remand in connection with an explosion in Dhaka's Paltan area on July 24.

A team of Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrests five members of “Neo JMB” from Sylhet in connection with the recent explosion in Dhaka’s Paltan area.