A man was tortured after he was picked up by five of his neighbours on suspicion of burglary at Ohor Malancha village under Kahalu upazila in Bogura, the victim's father said.

Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) has evicted more than 50 illegal establishments including dockyard, buildings, and mud-houses on the bank of Shitalakkhya river in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj today.

Two cases were filed on Tuesday with Rajbari Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal against a man for raping two teenage school girls.

Without allocation of necessary work force and a full set of equipment, the cancer unit at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical College Hospital (BSMMCH) in Faridpur remains useless for cancer patients in the region.

The dried-up bed of once turbulent Dhaleswari river at different places in Tangail is being used for cultivation. Local farmers are using the river beds for cultivating different crops including paddy and vegetables.

Ruling Awami League MP SM Shahjada today resorted to a new technique in the parliament to realise his demand for an embankment in his constituency.

A six-year-old child and a middle-aged woman of Mro community died of diarrhoea hitting the death toll to eight in remote Kurukpata area of Bandarban’s Alikadam upazila.

A group of fishermen who have been fishing in the waterbody of Gohala river at Shahzadpur upazila in Sirajganj for generations has alleged that they are not able to fish in the river as a section of non-professional fishermen backed by the influential quarter is fishing there ousting them.

Putting lives of students, teachers and others in danger, low-grade deformed bars are being used in the construction of a government educational institution in Juri upazila.

People and transports are facing immense sufferings moving through the intersection of four separate roads due to lack of repair works in a small stretch in Sagardighi Bazar area of Tangail’s Ghatail upazila.

In a span of only 72 hours between this Thursday and Saturday, six people from indigenous communities in remote Kurukpata area of Alikadom upazila died of diarrhoea and at least 200 others were infected with the disease in the same areas.

Operations of the Brahmanbaria railway station -- closed down about 12 weeks ago when a mob of activists belonging to Hefajat-e-Islam rampaged through it -- are scheduled to resume today.

A case was filed yesterday with Sakhipur Police Station against three men over raping of a 40-year-old woman from Koch community.

The Natore Senior Judicial Magistrate’s Court of Abu Sayeed has ordered a suo moto action to launch an inquiry into the reports published on print and electronic media regarding a breach of contract in the digging of holes beside the Natore-Bogra highway (N-502).

About 23,000 consumers of Charkajal and Charbiswas in Rangabali upazila, an isolated island in Patuakhali, are elated to have finally gotten electricity in their homes, 50 years after Bangladesh gained independence.

Kuakata naval police during a raid in Char Bijay area of Kuakata on Friday detained 16 people and seized four fishing trawlers for violating the ongoing ban on fishing in the Bay of Bengal.

A throat-slit body of a battery-run easy bike driver was recovered in Birampur upazila of Dinajpur on Saturday morning.

Over five hundred vehicles, mostly trucks loaded with goods, have been stranded near Kazirhaat ferry terminal in Pabna’s Bera upazila and Aricha ferry terminal in Manikganj over the past several days.

The deadline to finish construction of a six-kilometre road in Pirojpur Sadar upazila expires this June 30, but there is hardly any progress visible on the site.

Bithi Akter, a housewife from Doyakandi village under Deulabari union in Tangail’s Ghatail upazila, was struggling to maintain the five-member family with a meagre income of her day labourer husband during the Covid-19 situation.