Businesses in Charabari market area of Tangail Sadar upazila yesterday kept their store shutters closed for half a day in protest at attack on a local trader on Wednesday.

The residents of 36 former enclaves in Panchagarh have observed the fourth anniversary of the historic deal on the exchange of enclaves between Bangladesh and India, which ended the virtual statelessness of these people.

The floods this year have inflicted a severe blow to fish farms in affected districts including Gaibandha and Tangail where partial damage estimation so far amounts to around Tk 30 crore.

Once known as a ‘town of ponds’, Brahmanbaria now hardly retained only one-fourth of its 200 natural water bodies.

A court here yesterday sentenced a man to death in connection with a case filed for murdering his niece after rape in 2010.

A man stabbed his elder brother to death allegedly over a family feud in Kishoreganj’s Pakundia upazila yesterday.

Two girls have been allegedly raped in Bhola and Bagerhat districts.

Four children drowned in Kishoreganj, Jamalpur and Lalmonirhat in the last two days.

Scarcity of fresh drinking water is a major challenge for people living in the country’s hilly region, according to a Manusher Jonno Foundation commissioned report.

The High Court issues a rule asking the authorities to explain in four weeks why it should not be directed to provide safe internet for children and to block websites containing objectionable items like pornography, sexually explicit materials, and cruel and horror games.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says the communal forces get active here in every August, the month of mourning when Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman along with most of his family members was killed in 1975.

A minor boy has been "strangled to death" in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar.

Leave of all officials of the shipping ministry and its three agencies is cancelled to ensure hassle-free journey of the holidaymakers through waterway.

A Dhaka Court frames charges against six leaders and activists of banned militant outfit Ansar Al Islam including Maj (sacked) Ziaul Haque in connection with the case filed over the killing of blogger and writer Avijit Roy.

Leading Bangla digital entertainment platform Hoichoi has recently introduced an offline subscription system for its audience. This is the very first time in Bangladesh when people will be able to subscribe to an entertainment platform through scratch cards.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon has said that the authorities concerned are trying their best to control the dengue outbreak by early September.

The shipping ministry reconstitutes a committee to look into the death of schoolboy Titash Ghosh, who died in an ambulance after a ferry was reportedly delayed to accommodate a VIP in Madaripur.

The ferry services on Shimulia-Kathalbari route in the Padma river under Lauhajang upazila of Munshiganj resume in a limited scale six hours after the services was halted due to poor navigability.

Two students drowned in the Karotoa river in separates incidents of drowning in Sadar upazila yesterday.

Leaders of Bangladesh Mohila Parishad’s Dinajpur unit yesterday demanded expulsion of a teacher of Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University (HSTU) in Dinajpur for sexual harassment of a female student.