Nari O Shishu Odhikar Forum calls upon the authorities concerned to show Sub-Inspector Khairul Alam as prime accused in a rape case filed with Jashore’s Sharsha Police Station on Wednesday.

Law enforcers raid the office of Azmeri Osman in Narayanganj and detained two of his associates in connection with a case filed for extortion and beating a businessman.

Five thousand sharp weapons are recovered from a godown of a local NGO at Malbhitapara in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhiya upaizla.

A youth and an elderly man were murdered while bodies of two teenagers were found at different places of Dinajpur and Joypurhat districts on Wednesday.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a man from Ghatail upazila early yesterday on charge of raping an eight-year-old girl in the town.

Criminals hacked a young housewife to death in her sleep in Faridpur upazila of the district early yesterday.

Police recovered the bullet-hit body of an alleged criminal, accused in at least five murder cases including killing of an Awami League leader, in Satkhira Sadar upazila yesterday morning.

Sugarcane growers in the mill zone areas of Rangpur Sugar Mills incurred huge losses as the affected sugarcane on vast tract of land dried up after being submerged under floodwater for three weeks since July 15.

Due to lack of coordination between institutions concerned, the renovation work of 686-metre-long road is going on without removing 12 electric poles in the middle of the road in Derai municipality in Sunamganj, posing serious risks of accidents.

The government has initiated a mega project to dredge three rivers and twenty-two canals in Narail district to restore navigability and improve agriculture and fisheries.

A new building for Madhya Pangashia Government Primary School at Pangashia village in Dumki upazila of Patuakhali cannot start as two local influential men built a tin-shed house on a school land.

A mobile court sentenced three people to six months’ imprisonment each for arranging marriage of an underage girl at Arazi Sgeikhsundor village in Hatibandha upazila on Wednesday night.

A newly married woman allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from a tree at Hasamdia village in Boalmari upazila on Wednesday.

A Khagrachhari court yesterday sentenced a man to death and his parents to life term imprisonment for killing his wife and minor child in 2016.

A woman alleged tried to take her life after killing her two children at Ghonimoheshpur village in Sadar upazila yesterday.

A Bangladeshi is shot dead by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Rajapur border in Chuadanga.

ICT division and Bangladesh Freelancer Development Society has taken an initiative to create database of the country’s freelancers and provide them a digital card, called as ‘Free ID’ which they can use for banking activity and other formal uses.

World Bank (WB) is ready to help Bangladesh increase growth to double digit and it would provide all kinds of support for this, newly-appointed World Bank country director for Bangladesh and Bhutan says.

The government decides that the students of classes I, II and III will not have to sit for any examination from 2021 academic year.

A high-profile probe committee of the government has not found any “logical reason” to accuse Joint Secretary Md Abdus Sabur Mondal for the death of 13-year-old Titash Ghosh in an ambulance on a ferry on the way to Dhaka on July 25.