Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh yesterday said the water pumping stations they received from Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa), when the charge of canals was handed over, are out of order.

The death reference (lower court documents) of the case, in which eight ABT men was sentenced to death for killing publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan, has reached the High Court Division.

Sylhet city’s Chowhatta and Dargah Gate areas witnessed violence for an hour yesterday, as transport workers clashed with police and Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) workers, following an attempt to evict an illegal microbus stand.

After two hours of blockade on Dhaka-Sylhet highway, transport workers have removed the barricade after assurance from police.

Around 25 students of Barishal University were injured after miscreants attacked them at their hostels in the city’s Rupatoli area early today.

The names of agricultural products and rules of their usage should in Bangla in order to achieve food security and sustainable development goal, and to motivate marginal farmers to use agricultural innovations effectively, said speakers at a programme in Khulna on Monday.

A youth died and another remained missing after a passenger boat capsized at Ghat No-12 of the ​river Karnaphuli in Patenga of Chattogram yesterday morning.

Haji Md Rashed and Md Abul Hossain Khan have been elected president and general secretary respectively of Bangladesh Billboard Advertising Owners Association (BBAOA).

The High Court will deliver its order today on the contempt of court rule issued against the then Superintendent of Kushtia Police SM Tanvir Arafat for misbehaving with a senior judicial magistrate during Bheramara municipality election on January 16.

Work to build the country’s first underwater expressway tunnel -- Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel -- under Karnaphuli River is going on in full swing, with around 62 percent of work already completed, according to officials.

The High Court is set to deliver its verdict today on the case filed for attempting to kill Awami League leader and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by planting a 76-kilogramme bomb at Gopalganj’s Kotalipara in 2000.

If Dhaka were to recover 80 percent of recyclable and organic material in its waste stream, the city could create over 6,000 new jobs, found a study of Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA).

Padma bridge will be opened for public in June next year and development of the country will evolve centring the bridge in future, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said yesterday.

A paralysed elderly man burned to death in a slum fire at Patenga area of Chattogram early yesterday. The deceased was Nousa Mia (80), who lived in Raibeat slum at Patenga.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) appears to be reverting on its promise to not relocate stray dogs from the city without consulting concerned stakeholders.

A paralysed elderly man burned to death in a slum fire at Patenga area of Chattogram early today.

Top Bangladeshi cricketer Shakib Al Hasan has called upon people from all walks of life to stand beside people of chars and climate-impacted areas, marginalised and deprived of fundamental rights due to their proximity to the coast.

Three people have gone missing after a goods-laden engine-run boat capsized in the river Karnaphuli yesterday morning.

A newborn was found in a bush near Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka yesterday morning. The baby girl, aged only a day or two, was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital after an airport cleaner found her abandoned.

Dr Sayeed Hasan Shikdar, chief (additional secretary) of planning division, has been appointed as the new chairman of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha.