President Abdul Hamid is scheduled to deliver his speech in the 11th session of the 11th parliament commencing this afternoon.

A High Court bench yesterday cautioned the media to be more careful while broadcasting and publishing news with regards to an absconding accused as well as subjudice matters in future.

While countries across the world promote production and sales of electric vehicles, Bangladesh does not even have a guideline to regulate them.

The northern part of the country is witnessing a sharp fall in temperature as the second spell of cold wave from the Himalayan sweeping through the region.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged all to work from their respective positions alongside the government for the socio-economic development of the people to build the country as Golden Bengal.

Dhaka has termed Washington’s remarks linking terrorist group Al-Qaeda with Bangladesh irresponsible and unfounded.

Dhaka North City Corporation has taken an initiative to create an integrated “blue network”, connecting and reviving all the canals in 18 newly added wards to resolve the city’s perennial waterlogging.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said it has been possible for the Awami League government to make Bangladesh a role model of development in the world as it is in state power for a long time.

The High Court yesterday observed that media and journalists have a very important role in eradicating all kinds of corruption.

Amid growing concerns over the casualties at unauthorised and unmanned railway level crossings, the authorities yesterday decided to take several measures to ensure safety.

The government has imposed 10 percent tariff on onion import to protect interests of local growers, read a notification issued by National Board of Revenue (NBR) yesterday.

Japan expects Bangladesh’s first metro rail service to be operational in the capital by this year despite setbacks caused by the pandemic.

Globe Biotech has got the licence to produce its homegrown coronavirus vaccine for human trial.

The ruling Awami League has greeted countrymen on the completion of an era of the AL government at a stretch under the leadership of Bangabandhu’s daughter Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the expatriates’ welfare and overseas employment ministry and recruiting agencies to take care of Bangladeshi expatriates.

Bangladesh wants social and legal protection of migrant workers in destination countries during emergency situations like the Covid-19 pandemic that has exposed their sheer vulnerability abroad.

In order to solve the capital’s perennial waterlogging problem which Dhaka Wasa has failed to do, its managing director yesterday said the two city corporations should now focus on protecting natural reservoirs and not just rely on the artificial drainage systems.

The prestigious weekly Time Magazine predicts that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will sweep the first general elections of Bangladesh scheduled for March 7, 1973. It writes,

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked police personnel to stop cybercrimes alongside money laundering, human trafficking, terrorism, militancy, abuse of drugs, gangster culture and repression on women and children.

It will take around a month to clear the backlog of some 10,500 Saudi Arabia-bound Bangladeshi expatriate workers who were stuck in the country due to the Gulf nation’s two-week suspension of all international flights.