A daylong international conference on development options for Dhaka towards 2035 opens this morning in the capital featuring urban

“You can’t do any good to the state by keeping the judiciary cornered.”

If you google Bangladesh Chhatra League, you will find numerous awful images of incidents involving the pro-Awami League student body. Google can aggregate those pictures as they were published in various sites, including that of news outlets. Such incidents have resulted in, according to media reports, over 125 deaths in the last eight years with the latest casualty being a BCL activist in Sylhet yesterday.

A Chhatra League activist was shot dead in a classroom of Beanibazar Government College in Sylhet yesterday, around an hour after two factions of the student front clashed on the campus over establishing supremacy.

Medical examinations have confirmed measles as the cause of death of nine children at Tripura Para in Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong.

The cabinet yesterday approved a draft law expanding the list of relatives who could donate organs to a person.

The quality of the Buriganga water in Dhaka improved to some extent after the tanneries of Hazaribagh were shut down recently. Tests by Department of Environment (DoE) say so and so do the people of the area.

Cities hardly have any public place where women do feel safe, be it hospital, public transport or police station, according to a research by ActionAid Bangladesh.

Four operatives of outlawed Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh surrendered yesterday, around 12 hours after Rab personnel cordoned off a tin-shed house in Ashulia where the militants were holed up, the crime-busters claim.

MPs in the current Parliament seem to have followed in footsteps of their predecessors in the fourth Jatiya Sangsad to launch an aggressive attack on the Supreme Court for scrapping a constitutional amendment.

Azad Hossain Bhuiyan had to file a writ petition at the High Court on 11 July, challenging a police report that declared him dead.

“We're hearing the footfall of another flood. Some crops have already got damaged in flashflood but we have enough stock [rice] and we're importing more."

The Election Commission cannot intervene if any registered political party's activities are hampered before the announcement of election schedule, Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda said yesterday.

Dhaka North's Mayor Annisul Huq yesterday regretted his remarks on controlling Aedes mosquitoes and the chikungunya outbreak in the city.

Governance failings and appointment of politically linked people to the boards of public banks have been contributing to default on large loans, frequent scams and poor recovery of stolen money.

Bangladesh's future trade benefits will largely depend on bilateral free trade agreements (FTA) as the country may lose duty-free facilities once it graduates to a middle-income nation in seven-eight years, analysts and businessmen yesterday said.

Sohel Mahfuz, who had worked for about five years from 2009 to set up an extremist network in India's West Bengal, was planning to expand the activities of IS-inspired militant group “Neo JMB” to the neighbouring country.

“We cannot go inside people's homes to stop mosquitoes from spreading.”

Bangladesh and Sri Lanka yesterday agreed to sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) by this year, aiming to further strengthen and institutionalise bilateral trade cooperation between the two nations. The decision to sign the FTA was finalised during the official bilateral talks between visiting Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the Prime Minister's Office.

Fresh floods hit at least 30 villages of Sirajganj after a portion of an embankment eroded while the Jamuna in Gaibandha and Brahmaputra in Kurigram were flowing above the danger level yesterday, bringing misery to people in the districts.