Three performance halls of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA) -- National Theatre, Experimental Theatre and Studio Theatre -- are set to open their doors to theatre lovers of the country from October 23, after over seven months of closure.

A Bangladeshi team, Bioforge, was announced as one of the winners at this year’s prestigious MIT Solve Challenge. The team received Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation award for winning the “Maternal & Newborn Health” challenge, with their pitch for cost-effective and easy-to-assemble neonatal incubators for doctors with limited resources.

A Dhaka court yesterday granted bail to Prothom Alo Editor and Publisher Matiur Rahman and nine others in a case filed over the death of Naimul Abrar Rahat, a ninth-grader of Dhaka Residential Model College.

Police arrested two persons including a Chhatra League leader after a woman filed a case against them with Mirpur Police Station on charges of rape and abetting it.

At least 975 women were raped across the country in the last nine months from January and 161 rape incidents took place last month, said rights organisation Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) in a report yesterday.

The High Court yesterday directed Green Line Paribahan to give Tk 20 lakh more in compensation to Russel Sarker, who lost his leg after a bus of the company ran him over in April 2018.

A Supreme Court lawyer yesterday sent a legal notice to the government, requesting it to form a high-powered inquiry committee in three days to probe the violation of fundamental rights of the children in the three Child Development Centres of the country, meant for underage convicts of crimes.

A Dhaka court today sentenced Enayet Ullah to 45 years rigorous imprisonment in a case filed against him for possessing 9,000 yaba pills and 100 grams of heroin in May 2018.

A Chattogram court today issued a show cause notice to Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) administrator Khursed Alam Sujan asking him to explain why an injunction should not be imposed on his move to pull down structures leased by previous mayor AJM Nasir Uddin.

The prime accused in Savar schoolgirl Nila Roy murder case-- Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury--today confessed to a Dhaka court that he killed the girl because she refused to continue a “love affair” with him, court sources said.

The High Court today directed Green Line Paribahan to pay Tk 20 lakh more in compensation in three months to Russel Sarker, who lost his leg after a bus of the company ran him over in 2018.

A Dhaka court has taken cognisance of the charges against "Casino Brothers"-- Enamul Haque Enu and Rupon Bhuiyan -- and nine others in three cases filed over laundering Tk 3.55 crore.

Rab claimed to have arrested the owner of Nasim Real Estate from Dhaka’s Rupnagar area early today.

Officials of Chattogram Custom House recovered 82 gold bars -- weighing 9.5kg -- from the possession of a Dubai-returnee at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram.

Mirpur police arrested a Bangladesh Chhatra League city unit leader and a woman after a girl filed a case against them yesterday on charge of rape and abetting it.

A union parishad chairman in Savar was arrested on extortion charges on Monday night.

UK businesses are finding more prospects for trade and investment in Bangladesh, which is on its way to become a middle-income country in the next few years, said UK High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson.

AN EPIDEMIC IN ITS OWN RIGHT

“Soil-less grass is free from pesticides and insects which ensures safe food for the cattle of my farm. The production of milk improved, when I started to use this modified technology,” said Mahbub Uddin Ahmed, a farmer from Dhaka’s Kalyanpur, at a seminar yesterday.

Eminent personalities yesterday issued a statement expressing outrage and concern at the rise in incidents of rape and other gender-based violence across the country during the coronavirus pandemic.