Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has directed authorities to swiftly formulate and implement a coordinated action plan to tackle pollution in the rivers surrounding the capital, calling for urgent and sustained measures to restore their environmental health.
A wanted fraud suspect died after falling from the eighth-floor ledge of a residential building in Siddheswari during a police raid to execute an arrest warrant in the early hours of Thursday (August 6).
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General and Political Adviser to the Prime Minister Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has said that India "disrespects" the martyrs of the July uprising by allowing ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina to deliver a political address from New Delhi.
Dr. Zubaida Rahman on Thursday (August 6) paid tribute to her late father, Rear Admiral (Retd.) Mahbub Ali Khan, marking the 42nd anniversary of his death, by visiting his grave at the Banani Military Cemetery.
A march by the 11-party opposition alliance towards the Secretariat was stopped by police in central Dhaka on Thursday (August 6) as the coalition sought to enforce its "Secretariat siege" programme over the country's worsening fuel and gas shortages, soaring utility bills, deteriorating law and order, and rising prices of essential commodities.
The Jamaat-e-Islami-led 11-party alliance staged a protest rally in Dhaka on Thursday (August 6), using gas stoves and cooking pots as symbolic props to highlight the country's gas shortages, alleged "ghost" electricity bills and the soaring cost of essential commodities.