Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested a man with 820 grammes of cocaine worth around Tk 15 crore in port city early yesterday.

“I’m so excited to see my family after 24 years,” read the Facebook status of Bangladeshi expatriate living in the US Ruhul Amin. However, before he could reach his home in Sylhet’s Beanibazar, he died in a road accident on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway in Brahmanbaria on Wednesday night. The accident also injured four more members of the family.

A critically endangered white-rumped vulture, locally known as “Bangla Shokun”, was rescued from Nurallahpur of Chhatak upazila in Sunamganj yesterday.

For the first time in the last nine months, no new dengue patient was admitted to any hospitals across the country in the last 24 hours till yesterday morning, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said.

All coaching centres will remain closed during the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations scheduled to begin from February 1, Education Minister Dipu Moni said yesterday.

Santrash Birodhi Chhatra Oikya -- an alliance of 12 student organisations -- yesterday demanded academic expulsion and punishment for those who attacked Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) Vice President Nurul Haque Nur and his followers on December 22 last year. The alliance also demanded the proctor’s resignation for his failure to provide security to students.

Several MPs yesterday in parliament strongly criticised Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque, saying the minister cannot avoid responsibility for publishing the flawed list of Razakers.

It was not a mugging incident gone wrong, rather a planned murder. Relatives hired a hitman to kill Sagira Morshed Salam over domestic disputes.

A week has passed since the 19-day election campaign for Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) polls officially kicked off on January 10, but activities of BNP candidates and their supporters are hardly noticeable compared to their Awami League counterparts.

A rights organisation yesterday served a legal notice on the government, requesting it to scrap in seven days the section of public service law which provides that a civil servant will not be dismissed from their job for a criminal offence unless they are sentenced to at least one year’s imprisonment.

An employee of Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB) was hacked to death by a group of masked men at his house in Cumilla’s Barura upazila around 2am yesterday.

Thousands of Muslim devotees have started gathering on the bank of river Turag in Tongi to attend the second phase of Biswa Ijtema set to begin today.

Admitting that the people suffered a lot due to skyrocketing prices of onion, Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque in parliament has assured that such problem will not be there in the next year.

“I made a mistake by not killing her,” rape accused Majnu confesses to a magistrate. In his statement, Majnu also confesses that he alone raped the young woman, a student of Dhaka University, in the capital’s Kurmitola area.

"Going [to] BD after 24 years", read the Facebook status of Bangladeshi expatriate living in the US Ruhul Amin. However, before he could reach his home in Sylhet's Beanibazar, he died in a road accident on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway in Brahmanbaria on Wednesday night. The accident also injured four more members of the family.

Tabith Awal, BNP’s mayoral candidate for the Dhaka North City Corporation election, says people were not ready to cast their votes using the Electronic Voting Machine (EVMs) in the election scheduled for January 30.

No new dengue patients were admitted to any hospital across the country during the last 24 hours, for the first time in the last nine months, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said today.

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a man with 820 grammes of cocaine worth around Tk 15 crore in Chattogram early today.

BNP-backed mayoral candidate for Dhaka South City Corporation polls, Ishraque Hossain says that the government is sensing a mass support for “sheaf of paddy” in the upcoming city election, and is behaving outrageously.

A rights organisation serves a legal notice on the government requesting it to scrap in seven days the Section of the Public Service Act which provides that a civil servant will not be dismissed from the job unless he or she is sentenced to at least one-year imprisonment for any criminal offence.