Police have rescued the school student who was abducted from her home at Gunaigachh union of Kurigram's Ulipur Upazila.

A woman was killed after a water tank on the rooftop of a nearby building collapsed and fell on her tin-shed house in Dhaka's Kamalapur area last night.

An elderly man, who remained missing from Jamalpur municipality since Friday, was found dead in Melandah upazila of the district on Saturday.

A schoolgirl, who was abducted allegedly by one of her neighbouring youth in Kurigram’s Ulipur upazila on Thursday, is yet to be rescued.

Farmers of six upazilas in Jashore region are showing much interest in cotton farming as its cultivation proved to be more profitable than other crops. Due to this, cotton cultivation is increasing every year in the region.

Large and small chunks of concrete rubble with protruding iron rods and jagged edges have turned the Kuakata sea beach hazardous for beachgoers.

A group of diplomats stationed in Dhaka highlight the values set by Bangabandhu and the importance of following his ideology of social rights for all.

Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain alleges that the law and order situation in the country has completely “collapsed”, as some police personnel have turned into monsters for being “used in unethical activities” like extrajudicial killings.

The Department of Immigration and Passports (DIP) has started enrolment of e-Passport and MRP (new and re-issue) on limited scale, after five months’ closure due to Covid-19 pandemic.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said the state machinery was abused under an orchestrated plan in launching the gruesome grenade attacks on August 21, 2004.

State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism Md Mahbub Ali has called upon local administration to keep tourism prospects in mind while taking up any development project at the local level.

Md Nayem, driver of the microbus that ran over and killed young mountaineer Reshma Nahar Ratna, was sent to jail today on expiry of his two-day remand in the case.

Two Supreme Court lawyers serve a legal notice to the authorities concerned of the government requesting to suspend Sudhangshu Shekhar Bhadra from the post of the director general (DG) of the country’s postal department, as he met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Gono Bhaban even though he was tested positive for Covid-19.

Rajshahi Medical College campus and areas around the hospital premises have turned into a haven for birds, with hundreds of Asian openbill (locally known as shamukkhol), night heron, and cormorants nesting and breeding there.

A Dhaka court today placed Nishan Mahmud Shamim, president of Faridpur district unit Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), on a three-day remand in connection with a Tk 2,000 crore money laundering case.

Terming extra judicial killings as unacceptable, Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul Karim today said it cannot be supported in any manner.

Four people were held last night in connection with the gang-rape of a woman in Chhagalnaiya upazila of Feni yesterday.

Regional migrant rights groups Migrant Forum in Asia and Lawyers Beyond Borders today called upon the Bangladesh government to release the 255 returnee Bangladeshi migrant workers who have been detained in jail, accused of “suspicious activities”.

Three members of Armed Police Battalion (APBn) were taken into Rab custody from jail today for interrogation, in a case filed in connection with the killing of Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan.

Forty-six people have died from Covid-19 in the country during the last 24 hours, reads a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).