Stocks have plunged below the 5,000 point-mark thanks to massive sell-off by both jittery retail and foreign investors.

High Court (HC) has stayed for three months a government circular for recruiting 143 officials to 18 posts including that of teacher and medical officer under a project of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal says the government will carry out anti-Aedes mosquito drives throughout the year to protect country’s people from the mosquito-borne deadly dengue disease.

An eighth grade student, who was diagnosed with dengue, has died at a private hospital in Dhaka.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina calls upon the country’s businesspersons to stay alert against the propaganda now being carried out against the government as this is ultimately affecting the businesses.

Asian Development Bank will fund the expansion of the country’s four highways into four lanes. The highways are Dhaka-Sylhet, Rangpur-Banglabandha, Rangpur-Bhurimari and Barishal-Faridpur.

Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) suspends operations of launches and speedboats on the Shimulia-Kathalbari route due to a strong current in the river Padma.

Rail communication of Sylhet with Dhaka and Chattogram resumes four hours after a train derailed in the district’s Fenchuganj upazila.

An alleged cattle lifter is beaten to death by a mob in Najirpur upazila of Pirojpur. Deceased Jamal Hawladar, 48, was accused in seven cases including those of murder, arms and theft, our correspondent reports quoting SM Ziaul Haque, officer-in-charge (OC) of Pirojpur Sadar Police Station.

Authorities of two garment factories in Ashulia shut down the two factories indefinitely following an ongoing protest over dismissing 58 workers.

A young man is believed to have been killed in landmines explosion near the zero point on Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Naikhongchhari upazila of Bandarban.

An ongoing dry spell has turned waterbodies in Jhenidah almost empty, leaving farmers without much option for retting jute.

Native fish have been increasing gradually in Hakaluki Haor, much to the delight of local fishermen in three upazilas.

At least 30 people were injured in a clash between two factions of ruling Awami League (AL) at Kandakul village in Boailmari upazila on Monday.

A Manikganj court yesterday sentenced two people to death in connection with a case for killing a youth in Sadar upazila in 2010.

A union parishad (UP) member in Gobindaganj upazila has been sent to jail in a case filed over his second marriage.

A woman was killed and 25 people were injured in a clash between two rival groups in Dakkhin Sunamganj upazila of Sunamganj on Monday.

Police recovered the throat-slit body of a man in Sarishabari upazila of the district yesterday.

As many as 17 homesteads and 12 acres of croplands were lost to erosion by the Padma river in two villages under North Channel union of Faridpur’s Sadar upazila over the last one week.

A construction worker died after falling from the roof of an under construction four-storey building in Shantibagh area of Patuakhali town yesterday.