Bangladesh and Japan have signed a loan and grant agreement worth $1.23 billion for projects including the northern route of Mass Rapid Transit Line 5. 

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday sought apology and compensation from those who shamed Bangladesh, accusing some top officials of a conspiracy of corruption in the Padma Bridge project.

The High Court yesterday ordered the government to form a commission in 30 days in order to identify those who made up stories about corruption involving the Padma Bridge project.

Police filed a case accusing 170 to 180 people on charges of forcing acting principal of Mirzapur United College to wear a garland of shoes around his neck, setting a motorcycle on fire, and barring government work in the area.

Floods in the north-eastern region are taking a heavy toll on education with at least 5,000 primary and secondary schools in 18 districts closed down.

On the second day of vehicles plying the Padma Bridge yesterday, the authorities beefed up surveillance to smooth out traffic.

The High Court has observed that those who opposed the Padma Bridge construction are  enemies of the state and the nation, and they must be identified.

A teacher who was beaten up with a cricket stump by a student two days ago died from injuries at a local hospital early yesterday.

Dhaka has requested London to take in at least one lakh of over 10 lakh Rohingyas who have fled genocide in Myanmar’s Rakhine State and taken shelter in Bangladesh.

Twelve judges of the Appellate and High Court divisions of the Supreme Court have been infected with Covid-19, creating difficulties in running judicial functions.

Bangladesh Railway costs Tk 2.43 a kilometre for a passenger and earns Tk 0.62 only, Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan yesterday told parliament.

Only 9.87 percent students passed in Dhaka University’s Kha Unit admission test for the academic session of 2021-22.

Two Russian missiles slammed into a crowded shopping centre in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk yesterday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 40, the regional governor said.

President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping are set to make contact in the “next few weeks,” a senior US official told reporters yesterday.

Children’s substance abuse has increased exponentially in the ten years since 2012 -- an alarming development for the society.

The leaders of Britain, France, Germany and the United States will hold four-way talks today on Iran’s nuclear programme, the French presidency said, with Tehran’s oil exports as one of the issues to be raised.

Edible oil refiners have cut soybean oil prices up to Tk 6 a litre though the consumers rights organisation said the rates should have been reduced by at least Tk 30 amid falling prices of the item in the global market.

One man was left dead and three people were sent to hospital early yesterday in Montreal after stabbings by a 26-year-old who suffered a breakdown, Canadian police said.

A man was detained for removing nuts and bolts from the railing of the Padma Multipurpose Bridge yesterday.

A Dinajpur court yesterday sentenced three men to life imprisonment for raping a college girl 15 years ago.