Two suspected drug peddlers, including a Rohingya man, are killed in a reported gunfight with members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila.

Three persons are killed and eight others are injured in a road accident involving a pick-up van and a human haulier in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj.

Erosion by the Brahmaputra river has taken a serous turn recently and continued devouring homesteads and croplands in different areas in Sadar upazila.

In 2008, Somoyon Chakma’s brother brought two seeds of rambutan, a tropical fruit closely related to the litchi, from Thailand. He then grew a rambutan plant in the courtyard of his house from the seeds. After five long years, the tree finally bore fruits in 2013.

A four-year-old speech impaired boy was strangled allegedly by his stepfather at Kandania Kachupara village in Phulbaria upazila of the district yesterday.

Police recovered the hanging body of a youth from a tree at an orchard at Bongram village in Saltah upazila on Monday.

Different areas of Dumdumme union under Jurachari upazila in Rangamati see increasing cases of malaria over the last few months.

A court here yesterday sentenced a man to life term imprisonment for killing an indigenous girl after rape in Barlekha upazila in 2015.

Thunderbolts killed six people and two cows in separate incidents in Thakurgaon and Dinajpur on Monday and yesterday.

A tenth grader female student Kanihati High School in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar stopped attending her classes a week ago, following sexual harassment and threat allegedly by a member of the school managing committee (SMC).

Cattle farmers in flood-affected northern districts fear incurring huge losses from sale during upcoming Eid-ul-Azha.

Illegal sand lifting has led to the collapse of a lane of the old Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Chunarughat upazila of Habiganj while flash floods and landslide triggered by recent downpour has worsened the situation, locals said.

A woman and her daughter are killed in a fire that broke out at Halishahar in Chattogram city.

At least 23 students of Syedpur High School in Cumilla have been affected by mass hysteria.

A special judge court hands down seven years rigorous punishment to assistant account officer of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) Abdus Salam Khan for misappropriating about Tk 20.59 crore of BIWTA’s provident fund.

Four people are killed by separate incidents of lightning strikes in Baliadangi and Ranisankail upazilas of Thakurgaon.

Jatiya Party Senior Co-Chairman Raushan Ershad says she “does not accept GM Quader as chairman of the party”.

Police recovered five bodies from different upazilas of Narayanganj. Two of them were found dead in Sadar upazila while two others in Bandar upazila and a man in Araihazar upazila.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader asks all concerned to finish repair works of all roads affected by the recent floods seven days before the Eid-ul-Azha.

Anti-Corruption Commission has summoned Biman Bangladesh Airlines’ former managing director and CEO AM Mosaddik Ahmed for interrogation over the irregularities in recruiting cadet pilots and amassing wealth beyond known source of income.