After wreaking havoc across the capital, the dengue disease has spread to 60 other districts, according to the Directorate General of Health Services.

The World Bank has imposed sanctions on Tiger IT Bangladesh Ltd for corrupt and collusive practices in a project designed to establish a secure, accurate and reliable national ID system, a WB statement has said.

The US Senate on Monday failed to prevent the controversial sale of $8.1 billion in weapons to Saudi Arabia, after President Donald Trump vetoed congressional resolutions blocking the deal.

Canadian police on Monday said they have not found two murder suspects in an area of northern Manitoba they had searched for 24 hours after receiving a tip on the teenagers’ possible location.

A senior UN official appealed Monday for the international community “not to turn its back” on Yemen and to honour its pledges of aid for the impoverished and war-battered country.

A 23-year-old man, believed to be of Bangladeshi origin, has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder.

A writ petition filed with the High Court yesterday sought directives to give TK 3 crore compensation to the family of Titash Ghosh, who died in an ambulance on a ferry on the way to Dhaka on Thursday.

Eighteen people were killed when a small military plane crashed into a residential area in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi early yesterday, officials said.

The High Court yesterday started hearing the bail petition of Khalea Zia in Zia Charitable Trust graft case.

A rape accused was killed in a “gunfight” with members of Rapid Action Battalion in Chattogram’s Patiya upazila early yesterday.

Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque yesterday said the government would make efforts to ensure paddy farmers get a fair price for their produce next season.

The schoolbag, bought just months before the tragedy, still looks new. Roksana Khatun kept it safely on the reading table. Her daughter Diya Khanom Mim used to love that bag very much. Her textbooks were lined neatly right next to it.

Students who took to the streets last year for safer roads could not achieve what they had set out to do, but now many of them have to appear before courts almost every month as the police accused them of vandalism.

Alhaz Hossain, a dairy farmer from Pabna’s Chatmohar, yesterday brought 30 litters of milk at the Pran Chilling Center (a unit of Pran Group for milk collection) at Sharatnagar Bazar in Bhangura, but to no avail.

The shipping ministry yesterday formed a probe committee to investigate the death of a critically injured boy on a ferry, which was kept waiting for three hours at Kathalbari terminal for a top government official on Thursday night.

Mobarak Ali, around 70-years-old, had been taking good care of his seven cattle for months with the hopes to make a handsome profit after selling them ahead of the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha.

“Why such a huge number of dengue patients are there in our country? My simple answer is the spread of mosquitoes, spread of Aedes mosquitoes. These [Aedes] mosquitoes are healthy and sophisticated.”

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono arrived in Dhaka last night on a three-day visit, which is expected to focus on the Rohingya issue.

Although most of the CNG-run auto-rickshaws operate in the capital without following metered fare, a drivers’ organisation now demands hiking the fare in line with the increased prices of gas and daily essentials.

Regime and russian bombardment on Sunday killed 11 civilians in northwestern Syria where ramped up attacks by the two allies have claimed hundreds of lives since April, a war monitor said.