A child died from an “unknown disease” and around 40 people were affected in a span of three days in a small neighbourhood of Bandarban, said locals.

To work, a section of domestic helps only choose those houses where elderly people or children mostly live.

A Dhaka court yesterday sent a 65-year-old man to jail on charge of raping a 35-year-old woman in Savar on Saturday.

Police recovered the decomposed body of an unidentified girl, in her early twenties, wrapped inside a suitcase from a highway bus’ luggage compartment in Nabinagar on Saturday night.

Fearing the spread of coronavirus, students of Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (Cuet) are leaving campus and dormitories, despite assurance from authorities of “taking preparations” against it.

With Awami League and BNP both nominating candidates of relatively solid repute at the cost of public office experience for the mayoral post of Chattogram City Corporation (CCC), residents of the port city are cautiously optimistic of a well-fought contest.

With election to Chattogram City Corporation just two weeks away, campaigning is going on in full swing.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday claimed to have arrested three persons for their alleged involvement in killing a police constable of Gazipur Metropoliton Police.

“A certificate may change your life and fulfil your dreams,” reads the tagline of their website.

In a major development in Bangladesh Police, the Ministry of Home Affairs has created a total of 215 new posts of superintendent of police (SP) rank in its organogram, in a bid to bring dynamism to the force.

Police yesterday arrested four people, who are responsible for the death of a woman after falling from a rickshaw during mugging in the capital’s Mugda on February 29.

A patient with coronavirus-like symptoms escaped from Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital yesterday afternoon.

Police arrest a student of Jagannath University (JnU) in a case filed over physically assaulting a female student on campus.

Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh has directed all airlines not to carry passengers from European countries, except the UK, to Bangladesh from 12:00pm tomorrow till March 31.

A patient with coronavirus-like symptoms escapes from Dhaka’s Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital.

Detectives today claimed to have arrested four people in connection with the death of a woman in Mugda. On February 29, muggers in a moving car snatched the purse of Tarina Begum Lipi, who then fell from the rickshaw she was on and later died.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-14) claimed to have arrested two alleged child abductors from Mymensingh and Gazipur in separate drives early yesterday.

International Day of Mathematics (IDM) was celebrated yesterday on the Dhaka University campus amid much enthusiasm.

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda yesterday urged election officials and law enforcers to ensure polling agents’ security and smooth access to voting centres during the city corporation polls.

Alleging that he was intimidated by law enforcers, a BNP-backed councillor candidate has withdrawn his candidature for the March 29 Chattogram city polls.