Hundreds of students of Mass Communication and Journalism (MCJ) Department of Rajshahi University go on a hunger strike demanding the publication of their year-final results as soon as possible.

People of Bilaichhari Para and Jhogra villages under Rangamati municipality are suffering for want of a permanent bridge over a portion of the Kaptai Lake at Bilaichhari Para.

Police arrested an elderly man from Shibganj upazila on Monday in connection with a case filed for raping a minor girl in Chapainawabganj town on Friday.

None has been arrested in connection with throwing acid on a madrasa girl in Gafargaon upazila of Mymensingh on Saturday morning.

As many as seven thousand fish farmers in Jamalpur have suffered huge loss, estimated at around Tk 48 crore, in this year’s floods that washed away their ponds.

Two people, including a freedom fighter, were killed and at least 22 others injured in a clash between two groups of villagers over a land dispute at Bilkenduai village in Sadar upazila on Monday.

Police found the body of a seventh grader girl in a river beside a cremation ground in Joypurhat’s Panchbibi upazila on Monday night, 12 hours after she went out of her school in Joypurhat town.

Construction of the multipurpose complex in front of the Shilaidaha Kuthibari in Kushtia, where Rabindranath Tagore lived a part of life, is going on in full swing.

Neighbours allegedly beat an elderly man dead and injured his wife in Birampur upazila after the couple went to their neighbour’s house on Monday and asked them to repay Tk 1,000.

Two construction workers died and another injured after inhaling toxic gas inside a septic tank in Sirajganj’s Ullapara upazila headquarters yesterday.

Education ministry issues two circulars directing all its staff and officials across the country to take proper action in a bid to prevent the outbreak of dengue.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has donated 220 housing units to BRAC to assist the vulnerable people affected by the monsoon rain and flood in Ukhiya and Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court clears the way for Akij Food and Beverage Ltd (Farm Fresh Milk) and Pran Dairy Ltd (Pran Milk) to produce, distribute and sell pasteurised milk.

Cell phone sets with fake International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) numbers will be unable to use Bangladesh’s mobile network.

A Barguna court rejects a petition seeking bail of Ayesha Siddika Minni, wife of slain Rifat Sharif, in a case filed over his murder.

District and Sessions Judge of Narail Sheikh Abdul Ahad has unconditionally apologised to the High Court for exempting the principal accused of a murder case.

A writ petition is filed with the High Court seeking its directive on the government to give TK 3 crore compensation to the family of Titash Ghosh, who died in an ambulance on a ferry on way to Dhaka due to three-hour delay while waiting for a joint secretary.

A rape accused is killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Chattogram’s Patiya upazila.

Five people, who had been diagnosed with dengue fever, died in Dhaka and Barishal, hospital sources say.

A court here yesterday sentenced two people to death and six others to life imprisonment in connection with a case for killing college student Lal Chand in Kushtia town in 2011.