Sandha Rani Saha, wife of late Aswini Kumar Saha, from Jafarabad area in Mirsarai of Chattogram, breathed her last in a Dhaka hospital on September 14. She was 90, says a press release.

The practice of employing children as domestic workers will never stop in Bangladesh if people do not change their mindset, speakers said at a discussion yesterday.

A Dhaka tribunal yesterday deferred till October 13, the hearing on charge framing against eight members of banned militant outfit Ansar-Al-Islam in connection with the murder of publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan.

Certain television programmes are having a negative impact on socialisation of youths due to absence of any quality control system, said Dr Md Ridhwanul Haq, a professor of Institute of Business Administration of Dhaka University.

At least four people were killed in road accidents in three districts during the last two days, report our correspondents, and news agencies.

Are you willing to go to the depths of the earth to get your phone repaired? If not, in Gulistan you only need to descend one floor beneath the ground.

Candidates of the Rangpur-3 parliamentary by-election started electioneering in the constituency yesterday, after getting allocation of respective symbols from the returning officer.

A team from Dhaka Metropolitan Police Headquarters will contact service seekers of police stations over phone every day, to know whether they faced any harassment and misbehavior or had to give money to get service.

Those who were elected from Bangladesh Chhatra League’s (BCL) panel in Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu), yesterday echoed the dean of Business Studies faculty regarding the enrolment of 34 former and incumbent BCL leaders in an evening programme of the Faculty of Business Studies without admission test.

A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday seized sub-standard and counterfeit medicine worth Tk 6 crore, and jailed two persons in connection with selling those.

A woman attempted to take her own life by ingesting poison yesterday, after a court acquitted her husband in a dowry case.

Wife of the prime accused in a case filed over the killing of Savar Awami League leader Abdul Mazid in a confessional statement before a Dhaka court has said Mazid was killed in a planned way, according to investigators.

A constable was closed to district police lines in Barishal on Monday, following an allegation of torturing a woman at Ujirpur Police Station.

Newspaper workers’ associations yesterday expressed grievances for cutting down some benefits -- including reduction of gratuity and individual income tax payment -- in the recently gazetted ninth wage board award for journalists and employees of newspapers and news agencies.

The High Court (HC) yesterday cleared the way for newly appointed principal of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College (VNSC), Fouzia Rezwan, to join her post.

Students of Jagannath University (JnU) yesterday evicted at least 30 illegal establishments right outside the campus.

New Zealand, a top-ranked country in terms of ease of doing business, wants to help Bangladesh improve business climate in Bangladesh -- that is seeking to attract more foreign investment.

Bangladesh Railways demolished 250 illegal structures in the capital’s Shahjahanpur Railway Colony yesterday.

An 11-year-old girl died of dengue at the Intensive Care Unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) will carry out drives to free the city streets and footpaths from illegal occupation from September 22, in a bid to ensure smooth movement of the pedestrians.