Police in a series of anti-narcotics drives yesterday arrested four persons with drugs and ammunition in Rajshahi’s Bagha upazila.

A teenage girl went missing while crossing the road with her mother at Mawna Chowrasta area in Sreepur on Friday.

Barishal Education Board (BEB) lodged a case with Barishal Airport Police Station against 18 HSC examinees and one staffer for forgery during HSC exams in 2019.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said their party wants to make the hands of the government stronger to resolve the “dangerous” Rohingya crisis.

Today is the tenth death anniversary of fiction writer and former additional secretary Md Khurshid Alam.

Today is the 16th death anniversary of Nurjahan Murshid, a renowned politician, women’s rights activist, and one of the organisers of the 1971 Liberation War.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman guided Bangladesh to the path of liberation, and the country would not have been born if Bangabandhu were not born, said former commerce minister, veteran Awami League leader and lawmaker Tofail Ahmed yesterday.

State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury yesterday said the country’s road transport system lacks discipline.

Rab arrested two alleged activists of banned militant outfit Ansar Al Islam from the city’s Sadarghat area early yesterday.

The number of dengue patients admitted to hospitals across the country in a day finally came down to 700 yesterday. The number of daily hospital admissions with the mosquito-borne viral disease was more than 1,000 since July 29.

Department of Environment, Chattogram (metro) in a drive seized one tonne of banned polythene from Hathazari upazila yesterday.

Violence against women would not have taken such a drastic turn in the country, if the victims received justice, noted human rights activist Sultana Kamal said yesterday.

A woman, who was admitted to Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) with 90 percent burns, succumbed to her injuries at Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit of the hospital on Friday night.

Bangladesh National Zoo authorities on Friday handed over two animals from its collection to a citizen for adoption, one of which it has claimed was a donation from one of the most renowned artists in the country’s history. It naturally begs the question -- why?

Two policemen are injured in a blast after unidentified people hurled a hand bomb targeting the motorcade of Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) Minister Tajul Islam in Dhaka’s Science Lab intersection area.

A motorcyclist is killed as a bus crashes into his motorbike in Malibagh area of Dhaka.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asks leaders and activists of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) to work for welfare of the people being imbued with the ideology of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Airport Armed Police claims to have detained one person with 1950 pieces of yaba tablets near the domestic terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

Two alleged activists of banned militant outfit Ansar Al Islam are arrested by Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Sadarghat area of Dhaka.

Two persons die of mosquito-borne disease dengue fever in Chattogram and Khulna.