The BNP yesterday alleged that the Anti-Corruption Commission began examining the bank accounts of its top leaders on the basis of fake reports by news portals run by the Awami League.

They were once government land. But over the years powerful people occupied them and built establishments on them as they liked. Now the government wants to reclaim them with taxpayers' money.

The Dhaka Medical College Hospital will send BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's health check-up report to the jail authorities today.

The government has chalked out a detailed plan to avert natural disasters in Cox's Bazar Rohingya camps in the upcoming monsoon, Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque said yesterday, requesting the international community not to worry.

Just past 7:30am yesterday in the capital's Hazaribagh, Aklima Akhter left her house to drop her five-year-old daughter off at a kindergarten. A few yards out, a man dressed in a black shirt and pants was sitting on a stack of bricks with a cup in hand.

City authorities have tried out a host of “solutions” to control chaotic traffic over the decades. The result? All the money went down the drain and the situation turned from bad to worse.

Bangladesh has sought active cooperation from Russia and others for resolving the ongoing Rohingya crisis.

The first HSC examination of this year was held without any allegation of question leak.

Bangladesh Shipping Corporation is in the process of purchasing new bulk carriers for its fleet after about 27 years.

The government has changed the English spellings of five districts to match them with their Bangla pronunciations.

The Anti-Corruption Commission has opened an enquiry into eight BNP leaders over alleged involvement in money laundering and amassing of wealth illegally.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has been suffering from some old as well as several newly developed health conditions, but none of them are serious, a medical board found after examining her in the old central jail in the capital yesterday.

More than 13 lakh students sit for the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations this morning with the government taking various measures to prevent question leak.

The High Court has issued directives for properly and quickly settling the “enemy property” cases and ordering public officials not to make any attempt in future to include any property in the official gazette as “vested” one.

Each time Abir Alfat Mir goes out, his father Niamul Kabir accompanies him and holds tightly onto his hands from the fear that something might trigger erratic behaviour.

In yet another compromise with directors of private commercial banks, the government yesterday decided to slash the cash reserve requirement or CRR of banks by one percentage point to 5.5 percent for their benefit.

Describing the arson attacks by BNP-Jamaat clique in recent past as terrorist acts, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said she does not want recurrence of such evil deeds in the country.

The BNP yesterday decided to participate in the upcoming Khulna and Gazipur city corporation elections scheduled for May 15.

Nearly two lakh Rohingyas are facing a grave risk of landslide at their makeshift camps in Ukhia of Cox's Bazar. All those camps could also be ravaged if there is a nor'wester or cyclone.

In an unprecedented move, directors of private commercial banks are now seeking protection from the government against what they say is negative reporting on the banking sector.