Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has asked Railway authority to take departmental action against chief booking assistant of Khulna Railway Mehedi Hasan as he was primarily found involved in selling tickets in the black market.

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says effective mosquito repellent will reach Dhaka within two to four days aiming to control dengue.

Two lighter vessels carrying 3,000 tonnes of cement clinker capsize in the Bay of Bengal near Bhasanchar due to rough sea.

The ministry of education issues a circular enumerating some guidelines to curb the spread of Aedes mosquito during the Eid holidays.

The regional health directorate in Rajshahi finds breeding grounds of Aedes mosquitos, which are carriers of the deadly virus responsible for dengue fever, at several areas in the city.

The government has allocated Tk 51.5 crore to help Dhaka city corporations and municipalities fight mosquitoes.

Vessel movements are suspended in Padma river on Shimulia-Kathalbari ferry route due to rough waves and high current, prompting hundreds of vehicles to remain stranded at Shimulia ferry ghat.

The High Court has directed the authorities concerned of the government to continue providing privileges (protocol) “without fail” to those who are supposed to get such privileges as per the warrant of the precedence.

Another person died of dengue fever taking the unofficial death toll to 66 in the recent outbreak of the mosquito-borne tropical disease in the country.

Police arrest an accused in a human trafficking case from Pekua upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

The officer-in-charge and assistant sub-inspector of Government Railway Police Station in Khulna are withdrawn on charge of raping a woman at Khulna Railway Station.

Two suspected criminals are killed in a reported gunfight between two groups of criminals at Bhabanipur bridge in Bogura’s Sherpur upazila.

A Panchagarh court on Monday sentenced a man to life term rigorous imprisonment (RI) for killing his brother-in-law in Tentulia upazila in 2016.

Police recovered the body of a fisherman hanging from a tree in west Kuakata area under Kalapara upazila of the district yesterday morning.

Two members of Tablig Jamat, including an Indian national, sustained burn injuries after taking bottled ‘acidic’ water in Khetlal upazila of Joypurhat on Monday night.

A Barguna court on Monday sentenced three youths to life imprisonment in connection with a case for raping a garment worker in 2007.

A female madrasa student of eighth grade has been staying away from her home in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar as her stalker, who stabbed her on June 30, has been making threats on her and her family to withdraw a case against him.

Blacksmiths are passing busy time making sharp tools used for slaughtering sacrificial animals and processing the meat, as the Eid-ul-Azha is only a few days away.

Mouth-watering fruit Burmese grape, commonly known as lotkon, is gaining popularity among growers in Panchagarh.

Prolonged flood in the char lands of Gaibandha district has completely damaged aman seedlings causing local farmers to worry about their crops. However, with advice from agriculture officers, farmers found a solution in the floating seedbed technology.