The increase in price of fertilisers has made farmers in Lalmonirhat worried ahead of the crucial vegetable-producing winter season
US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas yesterday said media in Bangladesh may also come under the purview of the US visa policy.
Bangladesh ranks 22nd among the world’s 50 most conflict-ridden countries, according to an index by a US nonprofit.
“We need to raise awareness about rivers among the new generation. No matter how much development we achieve, it won’t be sustainable without river protection,” said Muzibur Rahman Howlader, former chairman of National River Conservation Commission, yesterday.
The Election Commission will conduct another round of workshops on October 4 on the role of polling agents nominated by candidates in ensuring free and fair voting.
As many as 89 dengue patients died last week alone. Meanwhile, at least 20,155 dengue cases were reported during this time. Of this, 14,436 patients are from outside Dhaka, while the rest 5,719 patients are from the capital.
Dhaka South City Corporation has issued show-cause notices to four officials for failing to solve the waterlogging problem in the capital’s New Market and surrounding areas within 24 hours of Thursday night’s heavy rain.
Police arrested a man early yesterday on charge of raping a tenth-grader in Savar.
A platform of lawyers under the banner of United Lawyers Front (ULF) yesterday organised a road-march programme near the Supreme Court demanding that the government send BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia abroad for her better treatment.
Two temples in Dhaka’s Nawabganj upazila were vandalised by unidentified miscreants on Saturday night.
Narayanganj police in a drive on Saturday seized the drug “scopolamine”, also known as “Devil’s Breath,” and arrested two persons for their involvement in selling it on an online platform. This is the first time this drug has been seized in Bangladesh, he added.
The permission for taking BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia abroad for treatment will have to come from the court, not from the home ministry, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said yesterday.
Police on Saturday arrested an assistant sub-inspector of the Anti-Corruption Commission for bribing a jeweler in Chattogram city’s Panchlaish.
Another person, who was injured in an explosion due to a leak in the gas pipeline in Narayanganj’s Araihazar on Friday, died at a city hospital early yesterday.
Teprai, a traditional fishing tool made of bamboo slits, makers in Lalmonirhat and Kurigram are all geared up for their seasonal business as demand for the item sees a rise during the monsoon every year.
A team of 50 Indian cyclists visited the Mughal era Bagha Mosque in Rajshahi’s Bagha upazila on Sunday.
The Anti-Terrorism Unit arrested four online-based gamblers from Rajshahi on Sunday for swindling approximately Tk 50 lakh.
People illegally extracting sand from the Meghna have links with a female minister from Chandpur, said the chief of the National River Conservation Commission yesterday without naming the minister.
The Chattogram University correspondent of Prothom Alo was assaulted yesterday allegedly by Chhatra League activists for reporting on clashes between two groups of the pro-Awami League student body.
Local and foreign observers may add credibility to the fairness of an election, Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal wrote in a letter sent to the European Union yesterday.
Though the Directorate General of Health Services recently requested health officials outside the capital not to refer patients to Dhaka, the number of patients from outside still remains high.