Two construction workers were electrocuted at an under-construction building on Monday night, at Lohar Gate area of west Rampura in the capital.

Protesting the threat to Dhaka University Prof ABM Faroque by an additional secretary for his study which found antibiotics in packaged milk, students of Chittagong University (CU) formed a human chain yesterday.

A Khulna court yesterday awarded death penalty to five men, for gang-raping and murdering a woman, and killing her father at her house in 2015.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday filed a case against suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Mizanur Rahman, and suspended ACC director Khandaker Enamul Basir, for a transaction of Tk 40 lakh as bribe.

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The impact of carnage in New Zealand and Sri Lanka raised the risk of terrorist attack in Bangladesh; however, law enforcers have managed to neutralise that, Monirul Islam, chief of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan police (DMP), claimed yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday rejected a proposal to buy more diesel electric multiple unit (Demu) trains, saying they are not viable for operation in the country.

A delegation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrived in Dhaka yesterday on a weeklong visit to talk to senior government officials and representatives of international organisations over the Rohingya issue.

Thousands of city dwellers in Chattogram suffered severe traffic congestions on major roads, especially on Airport Road, where vehicles remained stuck in a 35-kilometre tailback for hours yesterday.

A traffic police sergeant died yesterday after he was hit by a truck on Barishal-Patuakhali highway near Barishal University in Barishal Sadar upazila on Monday.

President Abdul Hamid yesterday emphasised the need for strengthening the President Guard Regiment (PGR), and said efforts to turn it into a well-integrated one will continue.

Officials of Department of Environment (DoE), Chattogram rescued a barking deer in Akbar Shah area of the city yesterday.

The results of this year’s Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations will be published today.

An RMG worker was found dead in Dhaka’s Mirpur on Monday.

Students of seven colleges affiliated with Dhaka University once again took to the streets yesterday, to press home their four-point demand -- including promotion of students who failed their honours first year final examination.

Zakir Ahmed Khan and Dr Zafar Uddin Ahmed have been elected as president and general secretary of Salimullah Muslim Hall Alumni Association of Dhaka University respectively.

High Court wants to know what steps have been taken against officials of the Anti-Corruption Commission and the banks responsible for wrongly implicating Jaha Alam in corruption cases following the commission’s internal probe report.

A Khulna court sentences five people to death for killing a female bank official after gang-rape and murdering her father in Khulna city in 2015.

A traffic sergeant who was hit by a covered van in Barishal yesterday has succumbed to his injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

The Executive Committee of National Economic Council (Ecnec) approves eight projects involving Tk 5,142.06 crore including the one to widen and strengthen important upazila and union roads in Dhaka Division worth Tk 2,606 crore.