Mild to moderate heat wave is sweeping over Khulna and Barishal divisions and the regions of Faridpur, Madaripur, Gopalganj, Sitakunda, Rangamati, Cumilla, Chandpur, Feni, Rajshahi, Pabna and Sirajganj and it may continue.

Four people were killed and three others injured as a pick-up van hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Chhagalnaiya upazila of Feni this afternoon.

Detectives have been tasked with the investigation of a case filed against Prothom Alo senior reporter Rozina Islam, who is in jail now.

As many as 36 Bangladeshi nationals, who returned from India through the Akhaura land port yesterday, were sent to Cumilla to undergo institutional quarantine as all the isolation centres in Brahmanbaria are full, officials said today.

The United Nations is concerned over the harassment and arrest of Prothom Alo senior reporter Rozina Islam.

Journalists are holding a human chain in front of Jatiya Press Club this morning, demanding immediate release of Prothom Alo's senior reporter Rozina Islam.

Three people were killed as a microbus rammed into a parked covered van on Dhaka-Tangail highway in Mirzapur upazila of Tangail early today.

Two grassroots Awami League leaders in Rajshahi demanded the release of Bangla daily Prothom Alo's Senior Reporter Rozina Islam, who was arrested on Monday in a case filed under the Official Secrets Act, 1923.

Volkan Bozkır, the president of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, will travel to Bangladesh and Pakistan from 25 to 27 May.

The Sampadak Parishad (Editors’ Council) has expressed outrage over the harassment of Prothom Alo senior reporter Rozina Islam.

Law Minister Anisul Huq has assured of ensuring justice for Bangla daily Prothom Alo’s Senior Correspondent Rozina Islam, who was arrested on Monday in a case filed under the Official Secrets Act, 1923.

Twenty-three people, who illegally entered Bangladesh through Dahagram land port in Lalmonirhat district, have been detained and put in mandatory 14-day quarantine at Dahagram Hospital.

A delegation of Jatiya Press Club led by President Farida Yasmin and General Secretary Ilyas Khan, along with Rozina Islam's brother Md Selim, met Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal over the senior reporter's arrest today.

A section of journalists who are observing a sit-in at Shahbagh Police Station are demanding voluntary imprisonment in protest of the arrest of Prothom Alo Senior Correspondent Rozina Islam after she was confined at the Secretariat yesterday for five hours.

An appeal for nearly $1 billion to help Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh is more than a third funded, the head of the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday.

Eleven eminent personalities have condemned the assault on Prothom Alo Senior Correspondent Rozina Islam by government officials at the Secretariat when she was collecting information from the health ministry.

Journalists across the country today demanded immediate release of Prothom Alo Senior Correspondent Rozina Islam and punishment of those who assaulted and harassed her at the Secretariat yesterday.

Prothom Alo’s Senior Reporter Rozina Islam has said that she is being treated wrongfully.

The family of Prothom Alo's Senior Reporter Rozina Islam will file a case over her assault at the Secretariat yesterday.

Bangladesh Secretariat Reporters' Forum (BSRF) has decided to boycott any event of the health ministry until Prothom Alo's Senior Reporter Rozina Islam gets released on bail.