At least 109 dengue patients were hospitalised in the first week of June alone, an alarming spike.

Seven Chhatra League men were yesterday sued for an attack on Bhangabari Union Parishad chairman and panel chairman and snatching of Tk 1.76 lakh two days ago.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the people to take austerity measures amid high inflation and price hike of goods across the world due to the Russia-Ukraine war and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Police yesterday arrested the editor of Dainik Parbatta Chattogram, a Rangamati-based daily, in a case filed under the controversial Digital Security Act.

She lost her mother at six.

As the garment workers continued their protests yesterday demanding pay increases, the government hinted at forming a minimum wage board to fix a new pay structure for them as soon as possible.

Bangladesh’s newspaper industry is going through a crisis because of laws that restrict freedom of speech and the precarious state of the economy, said speakers at a roundtable yesterday.

The parliamentary standing committee on information and broadcasting ministry was yesterday given 60 more days to scrutinise the much-debated Mass Media Employees (Services Conditions) Bill 2022.

Four people of a family, including a five-year-old, were killed in a landslide in Satjami village of Sylhet’s Jaintiapur upazila early yesterday.

Ukrainian and Russian troops fought street-by-street to win control of the industrial city of Severodonetsk yesterday in the pivotal battle of the Kremlin’s eastern Ukraine offensive.

The Supreme Court chamber judge yesterday denied bail to ruling Awami League lawmaker Haji Mohammad Salim in a corruption case in which the High Court upheld his conviction and 10 years’ jail sentence.

A Dhaka tribunal yesterday sentenced a Jahangirnagar University student to seven years’ imprisonment in a case under the ICT Act for making derogatory remarks on Facebook about Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

At least 20 people have been killed in a new massacre in DR Congo’s eastern province of Ituri, a respected monitor said yesterday, adding that the notorious ADF militia were suspected.

The government has cancelled the registration of non-governmental organisation Odhikar, amidst an ongoing legal battle in this regard.

At least 14 lawmakers of ruling Awami League and opposition parties yesterday expressed dissatisfaction as people are not getting proper healthcare services due to poor state of upazila health complexes and district hospitals in their constituencies.

The first Biman flight carrying 410 pilgrims for this year’s Hajj left Dhaka yesterday morning without the devotees completing their immigration procedures for the Saudi end, despite the government saying they would be able to do so.

The World Health Organization yesterday said that 780 laboratory-confirmed monkeypox cases had been reported to it from 27 non-endemic countries, while maintaining that the global risk level was moderate.

Australia yesterday accused the Chinese military of putting an Australian Defence Force flight crew at risk when their plane was intercepted late last month over the South China Sea.

Officials in British prime minister Boris Johnson’s ruling Conservative Party expect a challenge to his leadership this week and have pencilled in a vote for Wednesday, the Sunday Times newspaper reported.

At least three people were killed and more than a dozen injured early yesterday in a Tennessee city after gunfire erupted and fleeing vehicles struck bystanders, police said.