Illegal sand extraction continues unabated along the Rabnabad River in Patuakhali’s Kalapara upazila, accelerating erosion and putting embankments and nearby settlements at grave risk.

The 5.7 magnitude earthquake that shook the country yesterday left a trail of damage, including causing cracks in numerous buildings, triggering fires, affecting infrastructure, and damaging shops in several districts.

The KP Ghosh Street in Dhaka’s Kasaituli area is usually bustling.

The decades-old footbridge at Lalmonirhat Railway Station, declared risky in 2001, continues to serve thousands of passengers every day despite its dangerously fragile state.

UN human rights experts yesterday voiced renewed alarm over the exploitation and debt bondage of Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia.

Leaders and activists of a BNP faction and its affiliated organisations staged demonstrations yesterday by burning tyres in Hathazari, demanding a change of the party’s nominee for the Chattogram-5 constituency (Hathazari–part of Bayezid).

Police recovered a grenade during drain excavation work in the Boro Kamalabari Paschimpara area of Kamalabari Union.

Unseasonal rainfall has reduced coriander leaf production in the Rangpur region this year, driving prices to a record high and leaving consumers frustrated, even as farmers enjoy unexpected profits.

The Lalmonirhat Railway Hospital, once a vital healthcare centre for thousands of railway officials, employees, and their families, has been reduced to an empty, silent building, offering no medical services for years.

The threat was issued to the judge’s personal mobile number

Bangladesh ‘fully capable’ of addressing own issues, says Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson

The United Nations and the United States yesterday expressed deep sympathy and solidarity with those affected by yesterday’s earthquake in Dhaka, as authorities continued assessing the tremor’s impact.

The BNP has yet to decide whether it will campaign for a “yes” or “no” vote in the July charter referendum. The party says it is observing the situation and will make its decision later.

On the sidelines of the Armed Forces Day reception at Dhaka Cantonment yesterday, Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus held a meeting with BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and exchanged pleasantries.

What began as a happy weekend morning unfolded into a day of grief for several families, each caught unprepared by the sudden shudder of the earth.

No recent quake has been felt as strongly in Dhaka and its surrounding areas as yesterday’s tremor. The shallow 5.7 magnitude earthquake, with its epicentre in Madhabdi just around 13km from the capital’s Agargaon, forced residents onto the streets, fearing aftershocks.

At least 10 people, including two children, were killed and several hundred injured after a 5.7-magnitude earthquake shook Dhaka and other parts of Bangladesh yesterday morning, cracking buildings, sending debris crashing down, and driving residents into the streets in fear.

Across the southwestern districts of Satkhira and Khulna, millions are witnessing the gradual intrusion of salinity into their lives.

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus yesterday said that the upcoming national election, scheduled for February next year, will mark an important chapter in Bangladesh’s democratic transition.

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