A video circulating on social media shows one of the accused holding a bamboo stick and attempting to kick one of the women

They conduct overnight sweep to curb teen gangs, extortion and organised crime

Shafiqur Rahman urges merit-based appointments to key posts

A bank official died at a drug addiction rehabilitation centre in Bogura on Tuesday night, with his family alleging that he was tortured to death.

This year fitra has been fixed at a maximum of Tk 2,805 and a minimum of Tk 110 per person.

The voting rate in constituencies across the 12 city corporation areas was significantly lower than in rural areas.

Road Transport and Bridges, Railways, and Shipping Minister Sheikh Rabiul Alam has expressed his desire to distribute responsibilities among two state ministers in an office memo to the cabinet secretary.

Police’s Rajshahi Range has directed officers to show arrested leaders and activists of banned “fascist” organisations in other cases after they secure bail, if they are considered capable of reorganising, strengthening, or mobilising the group.

Criminals shot a Jubo Dal leader dead in Chattogram’s Raozan upazila yesterday evening.

Barishal District Bar Association President Sadiqur Rahman Linkon was arrested and sent to jail yesterday on charges of vandalising a courtroom and making derogatory remarks about a judge, who granted bail to Awami League leader and former MP Talukder Mohammad Yunus in a criminal case.

In a stunning development that roiled the financial sector, the government yesterday removed Bangladesh Bank Governor Ahsan H Mansur, replacing him with a corporate accountant who owns a garment company.

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman yesterday said the 2009 Pilkhana carnage, in which 57 army officers were killed, was a sinister attempt to undermine Bangladesh’s sovereignty, reported the UNB.

The Editors’ Council yesterday urged the newly elected government to urgently withdraw false and harassing cases filed against journalists across the country, saying such actions seriously undermine media freedom.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce, the German philosopher Karl Marx said.

The government will adopt a cautious “wait-and-see” approach to the US-Bangladesh trade deal, Commerce Minister Khandakar Abdul Muktadir said yesterday, calling the matter “sensitive and evolving” amid fresh uncertainty in Washington.

Amid the ongoing reshuffle of government officials, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Sheikh Md Sazzat Ali submitted his resignation yesterday.

One in critical condition

A 13-year-old child worker of a jute mill died today after another child worker allegedly forced high-pressure air into his rectum at a jute mill in Faridpur’s Boalmari upazila.

Victim was an eighth grader at Rayerbazar High School

The incident took place in Badurtali Badhghat village under Tiakhali union of the upazila