Bangladesh Coast Guard members yesterday arrested 168 fishermen in the Bay of Bengal near Sangu gas field area and seized 3,080kgs of hilsa, worth Tk 24.64 lakh, which they caught defying the ongoing temporary ban on hilsa fishing.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members recovered 60 gold bars, weighing around seven kilograms, in the district's Kalaroa upazila yesterday.

Climate change might make the world's stock markets and banks unstable and lead to a financial crash, said Mark Carney, the head of the G20 countries' Financial Stability Board.

The Mahanagar Sarbojonin Puja Committee yesterday urged the government to shift this year's public holiday on Durga Puja from October

Three renowned child litterateurs were awarded the Chandrabati Academy Shishu Sahitya Prize for their outstanding contribution to children's literature yesterday.

Undergoing treatment at a psychiatric hospital, Riad astonished his family when the 14-year-old said he would take medicine only if he was allowed to smoke marijuana or drink alcohol afterwards. He was finally given sedatives and put to sleep.

A cross-section of society joined a rally of demonstrators in the capital's Shahbagh yesterday demanding fresh tests for admission to medical and dental colleges citing question paper leak, and a fair probe into the death of a UGC official in Rab custody on Thursday.

Mahatma Gandhi Smarak Sadan has organised a discussion titled "Gandhir Shikkha O Shamashamoyik Biswa" marking Gandhi's 146th birthday today.

Countries that had issued security alerts for their citizens in Dhaka following the murder of an Italian citizen last week have now started softening their tone of travel advisory.

Chinese Ambassador in Dhaka Ma Mingqiang said China has taken up several initiatives like the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as the country is duty-bound to make contributions to international development endeavours.

Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority (BHTPA) and Re-Tem Corporation, Japan, yesterday signed a memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for planning, developing and successfully implementing hi-tech parks in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh urgently needs an effective hydro-geological database to manage and preserve its water resources, experts told a workshop in the capital yesterday.

A law stating both preventive and punitive measures is required to check the recent rise in violence against women and children, speakers said at a discussion yesterday.

Some bus operators in Dhaka have already raised fares while most are to do so in a couple of days as the new rates, fixed by the government in line with the recent hike in the price of compressed natural gas (CNG) and announced on September 10, came into effect yesterday.

The government yesterday reconstituted the divisional and district development coordination committees, expecting speedy implementation of development programmes.

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday mentioned that the government was working on the demands of the public university teachers, and requested them to continue with regular academic activities instead of agitating over the eighth payscale.

A Dhaka court yesterday allowed police to interrogate BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's adviser Shawkat Mahmud at the jail gate within three working days in an arson case filed on January 21.

Undeterred by Wednesday's police clubbing, some 1,000 demonstrators again took to the capital's streets yesterday staging sit-ins at Central Shaheed Minar and Shahbagh demanding fresh tests for admission to medical and dental colleges citing question paper leak allegations.

Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), student wing of Bangladesh Nationalist party (BNP), announces its support for the students demanding retake of medical and dental college admission tests.

People will have to pay extra bus fares from today onwards for travelling in Dhaka and Chittagong metropolises and their adjacent districts.