Students and teachers of several educational institutions across the country including the universities of Dhaka, Chittagong and Rajshahi continue demonstration on their respective campuses demanding justice for Abrar Fahad.

Protesting students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) demand a complete ban on organisation-based politics on the campus within the next seven days.

Supply of fuel oil remains suspended in 15 districts of Khulna and greater Faridpur since following a 10-hour strike enforced by tank-lorry workers demanding withdrawal of a case filed against their two fellow workers.

Unabated encroachment has turned the Haor river, near Benapole land port, into a stagnant waterbody that now resembles a narrow canal.

After her day labourer husband died 30 years ago, Chan Banu, now aged 120, became a dependent of their three sons and three daughters. But all these years, she was left out of the government’s Widow Allowance scheme.

Local people have been suffering for the last seven years due to the awful state of the station road beside the district central mosque and Islamic Foundation office in the town.

Jaintiapur upazila in Sylhet is known as the land of the lost kingdom of Jaintia. Ruins of the still standing kingdom are considered archaeological heritage of the greater Sylhet region.

Local women in Pirojpur’s wetland areas play a vital role in floating agriculture that is recognised by Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN as one of the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems.

The body of an unidentified youth, aged about 22, was found floating on the Kaliganga river at Nalora village in Manikganj ​​Sadar upazila yesterday.

A couple were found dead in Gangachara upazila of Rangpur yesterday.

At least ten people went missing after a boat capsized in the Teesta River under Rajarhat upazila of the district on Sunday.

Villagers of Baghil and Kakua unions in Sadar upazila have urged the authorities concerned to stop illegal sand lifting from the Dhaleshwari river.

Once flowing Bhairab river and several canals in Kachua upazila of Bagerhat are heading towards virtual death, thanks to illegal occupation and garbage dumping for years.

Dhaka University Teacher Association (Duta) expresses grave concern over the ruthless killing of Buet student Abrar Fahad and demands exemplary punishment to the perpetrators within the shortest possible time.

Renowned theatre personality Mamunur Rashid demands immediate resignation of Buet vice chancellor shouldering the responsibility of Abrar Fahad killing.

Tens of thousands of Hindus in colourful attires took to the streets beating drums and chanting mantras as five days of revelry and celebration ends with the immersion of Devi Durga in rivers and water bodies across the country.

Five people are arrested for gang-raping a 25-year-old ready-made garment worker in Sonargaon upazila of Naryanganj, police say.

Buet Vice-Chancellor Prof Saiful Islam has failed to calm the agitated students as he did not give any specific decision to meet their eight-point demand including expulsion of the killers of Abrar Fahad.

The expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat, who was arrested for illegal casino business in Dhaka, is admitted to a hospital in the capital after he “falls sick”.

The five-day Durga Puja, the greatest of all Hindu festivals, will come to an end with solemn immersion of the Goddess Durga in the capital and elsewhere in the country.