As part of preparations for local government elections, the Election Commission (EC) yesterday finalised a set of recommendations to amend laws governing the country’s five tiers of local government -- union parishads, municipalities, upazila parishads, city corporations and zila parishads.

Bangladesh is once again considering issuing a sovereign bond to raise funds from international investors, but economists warn the country may not yet be ready

Year after year the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) has been battling to keep the airspace surrounding Dhaka’s airports clean of buildings that exceed the height limit.

Seventeen senior police officials are likely to be sent into forced retirement over alleged allegiance to the Awami League, family ties to the party, roles in manipulating the 2014 and 2018 elections, repression of the opposition, and corruption.

Measles continues to kill nearly four children and hospitalise more than 800 people every day, even as both the government’s response and public attention appear to have waned.

Four more children died with symptoms consistent with measles in the last 24 hours until 8:00am yesterday, bringing Bangladesh’s combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 797.

The aspirations of the July uprising had been betrayed, said writer-researcher Altaf Parvez yesterday alleging that Bangladesh had returned to its old economic, political and administrative order.

The 40-bed paediatric ward at the 250-bed Patuakhali General Hospital is struggling to cope with a surge in seasonal illnesses, with 176 children currently admitted -- more than four times its capacity.

The aspirations of the July uprising had been betrayed, said writer-researcher Altaf Parvez yesterday alleging that Bangladesh had returned to its old economic, political and administrative order.

Three people, including two women, were killed and another injured after a truck crushed a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Mymensingh yesterday morning.

The appointments of three new members to the board of trustees of BRAC University were approved recently, said a press release.

A rare mangrove forest in Barguna’s Taltali upazila is facing growing pressure from unregulated tourism and attempts at unplanned development, raising concerns over the future of the fragile coastal ecosystem.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) yesterday expressed deep concern over what it described as the ruling party’s “unilateral use” of its parliamentary majority to introduce bills as supplementary business in violation of the Rules of Procedure, and pass them without meaningful scrutiny or debate.

The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) does not include issues that are political in nature, said Indra Mani Pandey, the regional body’s secretary general, yesterday.

Says pre-case mediation has cut new case filings by 62pc under pilot project

One worker accused of threatening journalist after dismissal

Comparing BIMSTEC with SAARC is 'misleading and misplaced', Indra Mani Pandey says

A year after the Milestone tragedy, young survivors remain in treatment while grieving families demand lasting care and recognition

The proposal came at a programme marking the first anniversary of the aircraft crash that killed 36 people, mostly children

Action taken under university's student discipline ordinance