A worker of a ready-made garment (RMG) factory dies after he is severely beaten on allegation of theft in Malibagh area of Dhaka.

Three female students of Rajshahi Government College are injured as a ceiling fan falls on them shortly after they sit for an examination.

The owners of water vessels withdraw their strike considering overall situation and getting assurance from the government.

Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Oikya Parishad says it has no link with the comments made by its suspended organising secretary Priya Saha while meeting US President Donald Trump.

Five more people have been arrested in a case filed over beating a woman to death in Badda. They were arrested from different places in Badda yesterday night.

Two alleged criminals, including a drug peddler, are killed in separate incidents of “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Dhaka.

Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) has been asked to prepare a plan and start working to ensure that all vehicles without valid fitness documents can renew fitness certificates by September 30, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said yesterday.

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi yesterday asked Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) to take immediate measures to sell daily essentials including onion, sugar and garlic in open markets in order to keep prices within the limit of people.

Government, non-governmental organisations and local people will have to work together to solve the acute water crisis in Khulna and Satkhira areas. Filled canals and ponds should be excavated and salt water enclosures should be closed -- creating a reservoir of fresh water for costal people.

About 20 percent of the youth of the county -- mostly males aged between 15 and 35 -- are interested to go abroad for better living and career opportunities, a non-government survey has found.

The first convocation of Jagannath University (JnU) will be held in January 2020.

Team Olik joined NASA Space Apps Challenge Global Programme in Florida via videoconference, said a press release of Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS).

They used to lure businessmen saying they have “invented” a machine that can convert taka to US dollars. If someone puts Tk 100 in it, they will get back $100 in return.

With Dhaka’s air contaminated with heavy metals and other poisonous particles, a global expert on air pollution suggested continuous collection of data on air quality, identification of the polluting sources and apt planning can improve the air quality of the city.

An eighth-grader was found dead at home in Gazipur’s Tongi yesterday.

China will extend all possible cooperation to Bangladesh for the safe and dignified repatriation of Rohingyas to their homeland in Myanmar, said its outgoing Ambassador to Bangladesh Zhang Zuo yesterday.

The online application process for admission into honours programmes in Dhaka University (DU) for the 2019-2020 academic session will begin on August 5, in a new format of admission tests.

A group of suspected muggers stabbed a youth to death at Tanti Bazar area in Old Dhaka last night.

Six union parishads of five districts along with Kanchan municipality in Narayanganj go to polls today.

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader yesterday alleged that relief materials are not reaching flood victims properly, and urged the government to stand by “genuine” flood victims by checking irregularities in distribution of relief materials.