Despite constitutional provision and a specific law to establish the Office of Ombudsman for investigating the actions of any ministry and statutory public authority or officer, successive governments have not created this institution even 54 years after the country’s independence.

Although floodwaters receded just a day ago, vast stretches of cropland along riverbanks in Lalmonirhat and Kurigram are buried under thick layers of sand, leaving hundreds of local farmers uncertain about cultivating Aman paddy and other seasonal crops.

A 180-foot bamboo-and-wooden footbridge over the Kapatakkha River in Jashore’s Keshabpur upazila collapsed amid strong currents triggered by heavy rainfall, cutting off a key transport link and forcing thousands of residents from nearly 20 villages to rely on boats for crossing.

A section of the embankment on Brahmaputra river’s right bank has collapsed, leaving the entire Chilmari upazila in Kurigram at renewed risk of flooding and riverbank erosion.

Waterborne diseases are spreading rapidly across the flood-hit districts of Chattogram division amid an acute shortage of safe drinking water and the collapse of sanitation systems.

Bangladesh may experience heavy to very heavy rain today and tomorrow, raising flood concerns in several parts of the country.

Major (retd) Md Muzaffar Hossain had been found guilty by a court of inquiry formed immediately after the 1981 assassination of then president Ziaur Rahman, according to intelligence officials.

In this unplanned concrete jungle, where the monsoon often brings flooded roads, traffic jams and disrupted routines, little remains of the romance traditionally associated with the season in Bengali culture.

The July Shaheed Smriti Foundation is grappling with a severe fund crisis, hampering its efforts to provide financial assistance to the families of 34 July martyrs and 9,776 people injured during the July uprising.

A large number of buildings across Bangladesh -- particularly older ones -- were not designed to withstand earthquakes, as they were constructed without fully complying with the Bangladesh National Building Code (BNBC), experts warned.

Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson says any decision will follow applicable laws and due process

Dispute erupts over allegations that police are failing to act against alleged Awami League activists

The Brahmanbaria-bound train lacked sufficient power to climb the Bhairab railway bridge, railway official says

Revised schedule to be announced later, says board notice

For more than two decades, 51-year-old Sazzad Mia has run a 120-square-foot scrap metal shop in the bustling heart of Karwan Bazar.

A truck driver was killed and two others were injured in a head-on collision between two trucks on the Netrokona-Mymensingh highway in Purbadhala upazila yesterday morning.

Trafficking victim Tofail Ahmed said he was sold to a heavily guarded cyber scam facility in Cambodia.

Eight children died from symptoms consistent with measles in the 24 hours until 8:00am yesterday, bringing Bangladesh’s combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 779.

The conditions for the possible new International Monetary Fund programme are likely to be based on raising the tax-GDP ratio, reducing subsidies, exchange rate flexibility and banking sector reforms.

Four convicted accused in the Abu Sayed killing case yesterday filed two separate appeals with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court seeking acquittal from the charges.