The High Court, in the full text of a verdict, has observed that an unproven or legally ineffective divorce cannot be used as a ground to evade payment of maintenance to a wife and a minor child or to obstruct the execution of a decree for dower (denmohor).

The health ministry has started implementing its plan to upgrade all 418 existing upazila health complexes (UHCs) to 101-bed facilities to accommodate the growing number of patients seeking care at public hospitals.

The Awami League will face trial if investigators file charges after completing their probe, Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed said yesterday.

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman yesterday stressed collective efforts to build a happy, prosperous, and discrimination-free Bangladesh, urging everyone to come forward from their respective positions and work together.

A 23-year-old man died after being electrocuted while filming preparations for a victory procession celebrating Argentina’s World Cup semifinal win over England in Netrokona town early yesterday.

A 23-year-old man died after being electrocuted while filming preparations for a victory procession celebrating Argentina’s World Cup semifinal win over England in Netrokona town early yesterday.

Thousands of commuters and multiple businesses in Patuakhali’s Rangabali upazila have endured hardship for over a month after the Agunmukha river’s strong current severed a pontoon from the jetty at Koralia Launch Ghat, one of the upazila’s busiest river transport hubs.

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.

He will be promoted to vice admiral, take charge on July 23, says ISPR

Police arrested the accused

Sadik, who received the fire service medal last year, disappeared after falling from a speedboat

BGB intercepted the group in Kulaura as alleged brokers fled the scene

She brings more than three decades of diplomatic and multilateral experience to the role

Officials file case against two over alleged lease violations as locals say repeated warnings about sand extraction went unheeded

It also postpones all examinations scheduled for July 17 and 18 under several academic programmes

Speakers at a roundtable yesterday urged experts to move beyond digitalisation and build a national ecosystem centred on people, skills, and innovation to enhance and foster artificial intelligence (AI) capability.