Electricity imports from India are set to become slightly more expensive as the country moves to introduce a recurring charge for scheduling, metering and reconciling cross-border power transactions.

Two cousins drowned in a pond in Sreenagar upazila of Munshiganj yesterday morning.

Agitated farmers in Kurigram’s Bhurungamari upazila yesterday broke into a fertiliser dealer’s warehouse and took away 197 sacks of urea amid a shortage in supply.

Three children died with measles-like symptoms in the 24 hours until 8:00am yesterday, bringing the country’s combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 933 this year.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Finance yesterday stressed for modernising accounting and financial reporting through digital and automated systems to improve revenue collection and curb corruption.

The maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to hoist local cautionary signal 3 as a low-pressure area has formed over the Northwest Bay and adjoining coastal areas.

The Jamaat-led 11-party alliance yesterday alleged that public trust in the government had hit rock bottom over the past 180 days.

A shipbreaking yard worker died at a private hospital in Chattogram early yesterday, seven days after he reportedly fell ill while working at Baraka Shipbreaking and Recycling Yard, officials and labour leaders said.

The Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) has been grappling with a prolonged manpower shortage and inadequate logistical support, putting increasing pressure on law enforcement activities in the port city.

Syngenta Bangladesh Limited has signed a memorandum of understanding with CAB International (CABI) to enter a strategic collaboration aimed at advancing sustainable agriculture.

In the sweltering heat of the afternoon sun on a Friday, men, women, and children of all ages made a long queue in front of the Shaheed Minar on the Gurudayal Government College campus in Kishoreganj, each carrying plastic bottles and other discarded plastic waste.

Leader of the Opposition and Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman yesterday said the 2024 mass uprising should not be seen as the “final battle”, but as a “rehearsal for the final battle” ahead.

At least five dengue patients died while 839 others were hospitalised in the 24 hours till yesterday morning, marking the highest single-day hospitalisation count so far this year.

The Liberation War Affairs ministry has taken an initiative to establish a new directorate for welfare of families of victims of enforced disappearance, murder and extrajudicial killing over the past 17 years.

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman yesterday directed members of the navy and air force selection boards to consider officers for promotion based on professional competence and merit, keeping political ideology and personal likes or dislikes aside.

For at least a million awaiting cataract surgery, main challenge is access, and for rural women, hurdles remain steepest

The launch of the government’s flagship programmes reflects its commitment to fulfilling electoral promises, but six months is far too short to deliver the relief people expected, Finance and Planning Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury has said.

The two children had gone to bathe in the pond without informing their families

A nine-month project titled “Nirvoy Nari” was launched at Safura Khatun Pilot Girls High School in Siddhirganj, Narayanganj, on August 19 to protect adolescent girls from sexual harassment and abuse and raise awareness of their rights, said a press release.

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has approved a plan to build a highway along the Barishal-Rahmatpur-Hizla-Mehendiganj-Bhola route, aiming to connect the island district of Bhola to the country’s main road network.