Although Bangladesh has made significant economic progress in recent times, a large number of children are working due to poverty, rights activists said yesterday.

The cabinet secretary yesterday dismissed a Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) report that claimed senior government officials are being promoted on the basis of political consideration.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday informed the parliament that law enforcement agencies lodged 1,19,878 cases against 1,61,323 drug traders in 2018.

A tribunal in Dhaka orders the jail authorities to provide former Sonagazi Police Station OC Moazzem Hossain with division in jail as per the jail code.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claims to have detained two siblings over their alleged involvement in contraband yaba dealing in Gazipur.

A Dhaka court sentences three drug peddlers to life in jail for possessing 2,300 bottles of phensidyl in 2005.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against DIG Mizanur Rahman allegedly for amassing over Tk 3 crore beyond known source of income.

Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal activists agitate near BNP’s central office in Dhaka in protest against expulsion of their leaders from the student front.

BNP nominated candidate Golam Mohammad Siraj wins in the Bogura-6 by-election by a big margin of votes.

Prof Serajul Islam Choudhury could have died during the Liberation War, but fortune and a little “trickery” saved life of the eminent writer and academician.

Opposition lawmakers yesterday censured the proposed budget, especially for keeping scope for whitening undisclosed money, while members of the treasury bench hailed it.

Zahir Sumon, a former student of Jahangirnagar University’s drama and dramatics department, is fighting for his life at Dhaka’s Square Hospitals, says a press release.

Five people including four of a family were hit by bullets on Saturday, when a person opened fire indiscriminately centring a feud in Jatrabari’s Gabindapur.

A jeweller was found murdered inside his shop in Chattogram city’s EPZ area yesterday.

A Jubo League (JL) leader was stabbed allegedly by an expelled leader of the unit in Rajshahi city yesterday over rivalry.

A motorcyclist was killed as a train ran him over at Hajipara level crossing near Narundi station in the district yesterday.

Some 111 persons, including 31 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its students’ wing Islami Chhatra Shibir were sued over Saturday’s clash between Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists and Shibir men during the namaaz-e-Janaja of a central Jamaat leader, who was also the father-in-law of ruling party lawmaker from Chattogram-15 Abu Reja Muhammad Nezamuddin Nadvi.

Central Women’s University Vice-Chancellor Dr Perween Hasan, renowned writer-journalist Abdul Momen and East West University Pro-VC Prof Dr Fakrul Alam have been made trustee board members of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB).

Over 46 percent teaching positions are vacant at public medical and dental colleges, Health Minister Zahid Maleque informed the parliament yesterday.

An eight-year-old girl was allegedly raped by an elderly neighbour in Gazipur yesterday, while police arrested a youth on charge of raping a madrasa student in Narayanganj.