Bangladesh Railway (BR) will receive 10 locomotives from India on Monday, to overcome its locomotive crisis.

A mobile court of Barishal district administration yesterday jailed two owners of a diagnostic centre for six months for preparing fake pathology reports and not renewing license for three years.

Gonoforum yesterday voiced concern over the worsening woes of the flood-affected people amid the coronavirus pandemic due to a “lack” of proper steps and plans.

Along with some Bangladeshis, a group of foreign nationals have formed organised rackets and swindling crores of taka from people through duping them on social media

The two Dhaka city corporations have fixed 356 spots for sacrificing animals during Eid-ul-Azha, scheduled to be held on August 1.

Forty-four eminent citizens of the country yesterday demanded withdrawal of additional Value Added Tax (VAT) on internet package prices to avoid negative impact on online education during the coronavirus crisis.

Speakers at an online discussion yesterday demanded for institutional action to hold back a greedy tendency of making excessive profit by unscrupulous private hospitals and clinics, healthcare service organisations and individuals, diagnostic centres, and pharmaceutical companies.

Brig Gen Md Shahidullah, the immediate past director of the Central Medical Stores Depot (CMSD), died with Covid-19 at Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka yesterday afternoon.

To construct a residential hall for students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (Sust), parts of hillocks have been razed in the last couple of days.

Four day-labourers were killed and two injured when a pickup ploughed into a crowd in Bogura yesterday.

Defying the ban on student politics at Bangladesh Engineering and Technology University (Buet), Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal has announced convening a five-member committee of the university unit.

A doctor of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) had been raping a female apprentice-lawyer for 17 months under threats of releasing her private photographs and videos, police said quoting the victim.

A former leader of Faridpur town Awami League unit and his brother today confessed to a magistrate of having laundered over Tk 2,000 crore abroad on different dates, an official of the court said.

The two city corporations of Dhaka have designated 356 places for the slaughtering of sacrificial animals during Eid-ul-Azha, to be held on August 1.

At the end of a 21-day lockdown of Wari to curb the spread of coronavirus, the Dhaka South City Corporation lifted restrictions on the Old Dhaka area from 12:00am on Saturday.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain has constiuted 12 single-judge High Court benches for hearing and disposing of cases during the court’s annual vacation.

State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury yesterday urged Dhaka city dwellers not to go to village homes, unless there is an emergency, during Eid.

Rangpur residents are suffering as rain-induced waterlogging has inundated many city streets and areas.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has asked Bangladesh missions abroad to serve people with a smile.

After passing four days under open sky near the Bangladesh embassy in Hanoi, 17 Bangladeshis, who were defrauded by Bangladeshi agents, brokers and a Vietnamese company, were provided accommodation on Thursday.