Two minor children drowned in a pond in Damdama Harigara area under Singra municipality yesterday morning.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested Meherpur district chief of banned militant outfit Allah’r Dal from Chuadanga town early yesterday.

After keeping their vehicles off the road for the second consecutive day, resulting in a suspension of communications with the capital via Mymensingh city, bus owners in Mymensingh and three other districts called off their strike last evening.

Jatri Rani Barman, an auto-rickshaw driver, has won the Joyeeta Award in Sunamganj under the category ‘resilience against violence on women’.

Unusually low market price of Aman paddy at the beginning of harvesting period frustrates farmers of Patuakhali and adjacent Barguna district.

A trader meets an end of his life in a fire that broke out at his cotton shop in Keraniganj upazila of Dhaka.

Bangladesh Public Service Commission (BPSC) has fixed the examination dates for the written tests of the 40th BCS.

The inflation edges up due to price hike of food and nonfood items in November this fiscal year.

A suspected yaba peddler is killed in what Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) says a gunfight in Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar.

The High Court orders the Criminal Investigation Department to enquire how the fake arrest warrants are made and who are involved in such activities.

BNP has claimed that no incident of repression on minority took place in the country when the party was in power.

The Gambia accuses Myanmar of breaching the 1948 genocide convention and urged the UN top court to order Myanmar to stop genocide against the Rohingya minority.

Marking the International Children’s Day of Broadcasting, four leading private satellite television channels of Bangladesh have come forward to allocate one-minute free air coverage to promote children’s issues.

The road communication of Mymensingh with Dhaka and three other districts remains suspended as transport owners are observing an indefinite strike for the second consecutive day.

A young woman is killed and five other people are injured in an explosion at a sweater factory in Ashulia of Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka.

A young man was beaten to death over playing cricket at Pashora village in Faridpur Sadar upazila yesterday.

Police on Saturday and Sunday made three arrests in connection with killings of three of a family in Banaripara upazila of Barishal on December 7.

Speakers at a discussion, marking International Anti-Corruption Day yesterday in Tangail, expressed concern over rising trend of corruption in every section of the society.

People of six villages in Sadullapur union of Gopalganj’s Kotalipara upazila have been suffering for long for want of a permanent bridge over a canal.

December 10 is a red letter day for the people of Mymensingh as the district tasted freedom from the Pakistani occupation army on the day in 1971.