Faisal Mahmud

Weeks of fir­ing es­ca­lates ten­sions be­tween the neigh­bours, rais­ing con­cerns of new Ro­hingya ex­o­dus into Bangladesh.

At least 398 peo­ple were killed and 774 in­jured in 319 road ac­ci­dents in fort­night be­tween July 3 to 17, says a mon­i­tor.

At least 32 die in first five days of July as the coun­try re­ports sharp rise in cas­es ahead of a ma­jor Mus­lim fes­ti­val.

Ex­perts say the 6.15km bridge, built at a cost of near­ly $4bn, will con­nect the south­west of the coun­try to Dha­ka.

The dense­ly pop­u­lat­ed delta na­tion, one of the world’s most cli­mate-vul­ner­a­ble, is fac­ing its worst floods in 100 years.

Unit­ed Peo­ple’s De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Front, based in coun­try’s Chit­tagong Hill Tracts in south, sub­mits a 66-page peace pro­pos­al.

Bangladeshi and glob­al rights de­fend­ers slam the gov­ern­ment’s move to dereg­is­ter top NGO Odhikar.

Fam­i­lies mourn deaths as of­fi­cials say more pre­cau­tions could have been tak­en had they known de­pot stored chem­i­cals.

As flood­wa­ter re­cede in most ar­eas, thou­sands of peo­ple now face short­ages of food and oth­er es­sen­tial items.