Chittagong University (CU) authorities are going to from an anti-ragging and anti-drug cell at the university soon.

Police on Sunday arrested a man from Dhaka’s Dhamrai upazila on charge of raping four children. The arrestee is Afshar Uddin, 55.

Workers Party of Bangladesh President Rashed Khan Menon yesterday said around Tk 9 lakh crore has been siphoned off abroad from the country.

Social Safety Net Programmes (SSNP) are failing to properly develop the living standard of ethnic minorities in the country as no sustainable economic development plan has been enlisted for them, speakers at a conference said yesterday.

Mentioning that holders of firearm licences cannot work as security personnel for other persons or organisations, the government has said licences of those engaged in such practice will be annulled immediately.

Two persons died of dengue over the last two days in Dhaka and Jashore.

The number of rape and sexual harassment -- particularly of children -- is on the rise across the country due to absence of proper and timely punishment of the perpetrators, speakers said at a press conference yesterday.

A group of Uber drivers yesterday observed a 24-hour work abstention, starting from midnight, to press home their eight-point demand.

Khulna City Corporation is going to conduct drives against battery-run rickshaws from today.

The University Press Limited (UPL) and the Department of English and Modern Languages (DEML) of North South University (NSU) jointly inaugurated a two-month translation workshop on the university campus on Friday.

Senior journalist Dil Monowara Monu passed away at Birdem Hospital in Dhaka early yesterday at 68.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday caught an office assistant of regional passport office in Dinajpur while taking bribe from a retired school teacher.

A Chattogram court yesterday sentenced nine persons to death and four to life term imprisonment for killing a man in Cumilla six years ago.

The admission tests for 2019-20 undergraduate session at Barishal University (BU) scheduled for October 18-19 have been postponed, as the posts of vice chancellor, treasurer and registrar remain vacant.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says she has directed the Law Minister to look for a way for the quick disposal of the Abrar Fahad murder case.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says the Awami League government has transformed the country into a Digital Bangladesh by making information technology accessible to all, including the marginal people, through efficient, service-oriented and ICT-friendly services in the last ten and a half years.

Buet student Abrar Fahad was beaten to death suspecting him as an activist of Islami Chhatra Shibir, police says quoting confessional statement of the arrestees.

The first-year admission test for the academic session 2019-20 of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) begins amid tight security.

The recent IED attacks targeting police at Gulistan and Science lab were carried out by a gang of New JMB in order to draw attention of Islamic State, police say.

A tribunal in Dhaka yesterday summoned the investigation officer, the last witness in the Holey Artisan café attack case, to appear before it on October 17 to narrate what he found in his probe.