Some high-ranking Election Commission officials in Dhaka and Chattogram took money using their office staffers as middlemen and forged national ID cards for the Rohingyas.

The world will miss its chance to avert climate disaster without an immediate and all-but-impossible fall in fossil fuel emissions, the UN said yesterday in its annual assessment on greenhouse gases.

The High Court yesterday ordered the government to conduct mobile court drives to shut down the illegal brick kilns in five districts -- Dhaka, Narayanganj, Gazipur, Munshiganj, and Manikganj -- within 15 days.

Activists of a pro-BNP organisation and police personnel clashed after the activists, while agitating for Khaleda Zia’s release, blocked a road in the capital’s High Court area yesterday.

Trespassing of people into Bangladesh from India might be an issue of discomfort for Bangladesh, said Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday amid concerns over India’s National Register of Citizenship (NRC).

Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukder locked horns with commission Secretary Md Alamgir yesterday over running the EC secretariat and alleged irregularities in the appointment of employees.

Greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, the main driver of climate change, hit a record high last year, the UN said yesterday, calling for action to safeguard “the future welfare of mankind”.

The Gulshan café attack investigation helped law enforcers get crucial leads on a new web of radicals and subsequently launch a series of successful operations ripping apart the network of militancy in Bangladesh.

The hazy skies of Dhaka city in the beginning of winter may seem like harbingers of the cold season. But what appears to be only mist or fog, is actually smog and dust.

Twenty-eight out of 32 pilot cadets had failed the tests but Biman recruited them anyway.

Formed in February with former shipping minister Shajahan Khan at its helm, a committee two months later made a 111-point recommendation on how to reduce road crashes and bring discipline in the transport sector.

Bangladesh wilted under the Kolkata sun, surviving for just 47 minutes on the third to lose the second Test at the Eden Gardens by an innings and 46 runs yesterday.

Four election commissioners yesterday sent a letter to the chief election commissioner expressing dissatisfaction over “not involving them in the commission’s activities”.

At least 10 types of bacteria have become more resistant to 17 life-saving antibiotics used for treating patients with infectious diseases across the country, according to a new government study.

Bangladesh Bank yesterday walked back on its stance of forcing international credit cardholders to take prior approval from banks for every cross-border transaction, as better sense prevailed amongst the decision makers of the regulatory body of the country’s financial system.

The Supreme Court yesterday directed Grameenphone to pay Tk 2,000 crore, around 10 times higher than what the carrier was willing to pay as adjustable deposit, to the telecom regulator.

With onion prices remaining high and unstable, consumers are bearing the brunt of high prices of essential foods, including vegetables, according to shoppers and market data.

Universities should provide students with the knowledge and skills that equip them to become entrepreneurs, said policy makers and academics yesterday.

Reaffirming that the ongoing drives against corruption, militancy and drugs will continue, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said she will not spare anyone, no matter who the offender is.

Bangladesh were staring at defeat at the end of the second day at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens against hosts India in the second and final Test of the series, having reached 152 runs for the loss of six wickets.