Newly elected mayors and councillors of three city corporations -- Dhaka North, Dhaka South and Chittagong City-- have taken oath today in a simple ceremony.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will visit Bangladesh next September to join the programmes marking 40 years of diplomatic relations between Dhaka and Beijing.
Prime Minister's Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Affairs Adviser Sajib Wajed Joy today said Awami League is a nationalist party of the country, not the BNP, in the real sense of the term as it united the whole nation successfully for the war of liberation.
The government has taken a project to construct an airport at Rampal in Bagerhat district to accelerate the economic activities in country's south-western region.
A Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) Centre, the second of its kind in the country, started its journey today along with other health facilities at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) at Dhaka Cantonment opening up a new horizon in Bangladesh's medical science.