Biman Bangladesh Airlines has placed its fleet of Boeing 737 planes under surveillance after a jet crashed in China.

Two ministers yesterday said the government has been doing its best to control the high prices of essentials, which is the result of global market instability.

Expressing their shock, the International Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission (CHTC) in a statement called for prompt, impartial and effective judicial investigation into the death of political activist Nabayan Chakma Milon alias Sourav.

Police on Sunday recovered the body of Monowara Begum, a retired professor of Patuakhali Government College, from Kacha river in Patuakhali Sadar upazila, a day after she had gone missing.

A 70-year-old woman died after her son allegedly assaulted her in Mymensingh Sadar upazila yesterday.

As many as 902 Bangladeshis who became undocumented in Libya and were taken to different detention centres have been brought back home since September last year.

Snoring is the noise people make while breathing during sleep.

A teacher and a schoolgirl were killed and five students of Abdul Alim Memorial School injured after a pickup truck ran them over on the school premises in Manikganj’s Shibalaya upazila yesterday.

Accidents on rivers and subsequent fatalities have seen a gradual increase over the last three years and experts see the authorities’ poor monitoring of the waterways operations as the main reason.

The Election Commission is all set to host its second round of talks this morning.

A China Eastern Airlines 600115.SS Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in mountains in southern China on a domestic flight yesterday after a sudden descent from cruising altitude. Media said there were no signs of survivors.

Rights organisation Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust has recommended changes in the Evidence Act that would block the ways in which the character of women are questioned in rape cases.

Russian forces advancing on the Ukraine capital Kyiv from the northeast have stalled, British intelligence said yesterday, as Ukraine rejected Russian calls for defenders to lay down their arms in the besieged city of Mariupol.

Dhaka is a hotbed for enforced disappearances, stated a CGS report launched yesterday.

Arifa clutched her baby boy tightly to her chest as if to protect him from harm as the launch, being rammed by the bow of a much larger cargo vessel, shook violently.

If you cruise through the Ujantia canal up to its estuary with the Matamuhuri river of Cox’s Bazar, you will see the last remnants of a mangrove forest, almost obliterated from the country’s south-eastern landscape.

Patuakhali’s Rangabali upazila, a coalition of 22 small islands in the Bay, did not have access to electricity just a year ago.

Police yesterday recovered the body of a toddler from a field in Morrelganj, Bagerhat.

An 18-year-old madrasa student died in a private hospital in the capital yesterday, just over two days after she was stabbed by her stalker in Shariatpur.

An inter-ministerial meeting ended yesterday without fixing any date for resuming the operation of trains between Bangladesh and India amid expectations that the service would resume soon.