A total of 2,904 persons were arrested on trafficking in persons charges in Bangladesh between 2017 and 2018, says a new report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

The Covid-19 vaccines have reached Mymensingh, but the health officials of the division are racing against time to complete the training of field level workers and raise mass awareness among people to join the mass inoculation campaign.

Two fugitive members of the banned militant outfit Jamaa't-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh were arrested during a raid by the Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU) of Police at Chattogram today.

A private car burnt in a fire in Rajshahi city last evening.

Police yesterday detained 54 more boys from Dhaka's Hatirjheel area on charge of "harassing visitors and causing nuisance".

A construction worker died after a branch of a tree fell on him in Dhaka’s Sabujbagh area this morning.

Two people were killed in road accidents in two districts yesterday, according to reports from our correspondents.

Bangladesh Business and Disability Network (BBDN) with the support of Bangladesh Employers Federation (BEF) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH has completed the drafting of a “Return to Work and Rehabilitation Strategy” for people who suffered injuries or disability due to industrial accidents or occupational hazards, said a press release.

Khandakar Abdul Malek Shahidullah, a Language Movement veteran, died at his Nandibari house in Muktagachha, Mymensingh yesterday, aged 85.

Dr Shah Mohammad Farouk, former vice chancellor of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) in Mymensingh, passed away at BSMMU, Dhaka yesterday.

Five months after the tragic murder of Savar school student Nila Roy, police have arrested Sakib Hasan, the son of an AL leader, who was allegedly involved in the killing.

Brac Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), an independent research and post-graduate teaching centre at Brac University, has been recognised as one of the top 40 transparency and good governance think tanks and one of the top 120 social policy think tanks in the world.

Working women’s platform Karmojibi Nari demonstrated at Central Shaheed Minar premises yesterday afternoon demanding capital punishment for those behind the killing of a flower-seller girl in the area.

Two more prosecution witnesses, including a bench reader of Bangladesh Supreme Court, yesterday gave their depositions before a Dhaka court in a money laundering case filed against former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and 10 others.

The High Court yesterday wanted to know whether gambling and casino business are related to money laundering.

Voter turnout at municipalities that used Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) were five percent lower than the turnout in municipalities that used ballot papers.

Due to the sharp fall in the number of theatre audience for commercial movies, curtains are being drawn on a 28-year-old cinema hall in Bogura’s Dhunat upazila.

Around 15 months after the inauguration of Dhaka North City Corporation’s first dedicated bicycle lane in Agargaon, the initial optimism of cyclists surrounding the lanes is waning due to illegal occupation and lack of integrated networks.

A total of 92 fishermen were jailed for different terms for netting jatka and other fishes illegally in Barishal region as a joint operation ended on February 1.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-7) in a drive yesterday arrested an alleged drug peddler with 1.30 lakh yaba pills from Anwara upazila of Chattogram.