Three more bodies were recovered from the Bay of Bengal between Sunday and yesterday morning, taking the death toll in the February 11 trawler capsize to 21 now.

Two people including an 85-year-old man were sent to jail over rape of children in separate incidents in Tangail and Sunamganj yesterday, while a man was arrested on Sunday night on charge of raping a woman in Jashore.

A two-and-half kilometre road at Dhairkhata village in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila has almost been badly damaged due to random movement of overloaded tractors carrying earth for a brick kiln.

Just a couple of days ahead of Language Martyrs’ Day on February 21, the central Shaheed Minar of Kulaura upazila under Moulvibazar lies in an awful condition.

The bodies of a married couple are recovered by law enforcers from their residence in Faridpur’s Sadar upazila.

Forest officials in Bagerhat rescue a seven-foot python from a village in Sharankhola upazila.

Karnaphuli Gas Distribution Company Limited has discontinued gas supply to general hospital of Chattogram, putting around 200 patients in immense suffering.

The law enforcers have arrested three staffers of a bus in connection with an incident of gang-rape on a running bus in Bhogra area of Gazipur.

Father of Buet student Abrar Fahad has filed an application to the authorities concerned for transferring his son’s murder case to the Speedy Trial Tribunal for quick disposal.

The High Court questions the government’s decision to not appoint 38 candidates who qualified the 39th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) exams but were not recruited as assistant surgeons and assistant dental surgeons.

Jatiya Party nominates three candidates to contest the by-elections to Dhaka-10, Gaibandha-3 and Bagerhat-4 constituencies.

The High Court has issued status quo on recruitments of 1,650 deputy assistant agriculture officers -- whose exam results were published on January 17 this year -- for 30 days on charge of irregularities in applying quota system in the appointment process.

An inter-ministerial body formed to resolve the dispute between the Bangladesh Forest Department (BFD) and the Roads and Highway Department (RHD) over a proposed road through two reserve forests today decided against the project, reports our Chattogram correspondent.

Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) says radiation emitted by mobile phone towers is well below the World Health Organization’s (WHO) permissible limit and is not harmful to human health or the environment.

Three more bodies were recovered from Bay of Bengal between Sunday and this morning taking the death toll in the February 11 trawler capsize to 21 now.

Ferry services on Shimulia-Kathalbari route in the Padma river resumed yesterday after a suspension of over 10 hours due to poor visibility caused by dense fog.

A young man allegedly killed his father in Nabinagar municipality area on Friday as the latter refused to sell his property and give him the money to start a business.

A woman and her five-year-old son, who went missing after a tourist boat capsized in the Karnaphuli river under Kaptai upazila on Friday, are yet to be rescued after two days of the incident.

Journalists in Tangail formed a human chain in the town yesterday, demanding arrest and exemplary punishment to the attacker of journalist Fazlur Rahman, Ghatail upazila correspondent of Bangla Daily Jugantor.

Most of the government primary schools in Jashore are without any Shaheed Minar, a monument to commemorate the martyrs of 1952 Language Movement.