The government has taken an initiative to register battery-powered three-wheeled rickshaws in 13 city corporation areas across the country, with registration set to begin on Monday. In Dhaka, battery-powered rickshaws will be allowed to operate in eight designated zones, with…
A Dhaka court on Sunday placed Jerika Tasneem Disha, 19, on a four-day remand for interrogation in a murder case over the death of former Air Force Flight Lieutenant K M Tahsif Souri. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Ripon Hossain passed…
The International Crimes Tribunal will deliver its verdict on October 29 in a crimes against humanity case against four people, including Awami League joint general secretary Md Mahbubul Alam Hanif, over the killings of six people in Kushtia during the…
Amnesty International has raised concerns over three recently proposed and enacted laws in a letter to Bangladesh’s law, justice and parliamentary affairs minister. In the letter, dated October 26 and published on its website on Thursday, the international human rights…
Endangered Ganges River dolphins are still surviving and breeding in parts of the heavily polluted Buriganga River near Dhaka despite intense vessel traffic and extensive human activity, a study has found. Researchers from Jahangirnagar university zoology department recorded 57 dolphin…
The deep depression over the Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify further into a cyclonic storm as it moves west-northwestwards, the Bangladesh Meteorological Department said on Sunday. The depression over the southeast Bay and adjoining Andaman Sea moved northwestwards…
Over 50 garment factories in Ashulia suspended operations on Sunday as workers staged protests for a second consecutive day, demanding a minimum monthly wage of Tk 30,000, an end to blacklisting and the fulfillment of other demands. The unrest began…
The second death anniversary of eminent liver specialist Professor Dr Mobin Khan was observed at Bangladesh Medical University in Dhaka on Saturday. Alongside the commemoration, the department of haepatology organised a seminar titled Form Control to Cure: The HBV Therapeutic…
Natural gas supply across the country is set to fall by 320 million cubic feet per day from November 4 due to emergency maintenance at Summit LNG terminal in Moheshkhali, Cox’s Bazar, according to Petrobangla. In a press release issued…
Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom has begun supplying nuclear fuel for the initial loading of the second unit of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, with the first batch of fuel assemblies recently flown to Bangladesh. The fuel assemblies for the…
