A shipbreaking yard worker died today, five days after he suffered burn injuries in a fire at a ship in Chattogram’s Sitakunda on February 6.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said she has released Tk 1,000 crore to construct 50,000 more houses for the homeless and landless people.

A former principal of Ispahani Girls' School and College died after a train hit him in Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar area this morning.

Hundreds of people paid their last respect to freedom fighter Kutubuddin Ahmed after his namaz-e-janaza at Government Hatem Ali College, Barishal yesterday.

Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU) and partner organisations have introduced a mobile-based app in some areas of Gazipur’s Kaliakair upazila, which aims to develop knowledge about safe and orderly migration.

Sylhet City Corporation’s (SCC) Chief Health Officer Dr Jahidul Islam has been diagnosed with coronavirus (Covid-19) for a second time, six months after he was first infected with the virus.

Memberrs of the hijra community yesterday staged a flash mob in front of the capital’s Bashundhara City shopping complex.

Educational institutions should be opened with students’ safety as the top priority, development practitioners said at the launching of “Safe Back to School (SB2S)” project.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs yesterday approved a proposal in principle for following the Direct Procurement Method (DPM) to hold drone, aerial and fireworks shows to celebrate the golden jubilee of the country’s independence on March 26 this year.

A Sylhet court yesterday recorded testimonies of two witnesses in the case filed for the murder of science writer, freethinker and blogger Ananta Bijoy Das, who was brutally hacked to death on May 12, 2015.

The newly-elected mayor and ward councillors of Chattogram City Corporation are scheduled to take oath at Osmani Memorial Auditorium in Dhaka today. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will virtually administer oath to mayor-elect Rezaul Karim Chwodhury from her official residence Gono Bhaban, said Kazi Mohammad Mozammel Hoque, chief executive officer of CCC.

Today is the 20th death anniversary of Tawfiq Aziz Khan, former executive editor of The Daily Star and eminent sports writer and commentator.

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Rezaul Karim Chowdhury, the mayor-elect of Chattogram City Corporation, is set to take oath of office today, after winning last month’s election with ruling Awami League’s symbol “boat” in polls marred by low voter turnout and violence.

Sabed Ali was 16 years old when he began working as a gardener at Bangladesh National Zoo.

A one-year old boy was burnt to death this morning after a fire broke out at a colony in Kaliakair upazila.

Seventy percent complaints of residents of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) that were filed through “Sobar Dhaka” smartphone app were solved in the last month.

Conservancy workers yesterday threatened to go on a strike if their contractual recruitment through tender is not cancelled and the approval of the waste management firms that hired them is not renewed in a week.

A few days ago, commuters would come across a boy, aged around nine to 10, selling cigarettes and betel leaves from a heavy metal box suspended from his shoulders, on the roads near the capital’s Mugda Medical College and Hospital.

Today is the 13th death anniversary of Prof Khaleda Akhtar Banu, an organiser of Liberation War and former chairperson of Bangla department of Abudharr Ghifari University College, says a press release.