Two policemen, including a security detail of LGRD Minister Tazul Islam, were injured when a bomb went off at Science Lab intersection last night.

The number of dengue patients this month surpassed the combined total of such patients in the last 19 years with experts warning about further spread of the virus in the next two months.

Alleged extortionists killed a fifth grader by stabbing him and then shoving him in front of a speeding bus in Rangpur city on Thursday night.

An imam found the bodies of his six-year-old son and two other boys in his room at a mosque in Chandpur’s Matlab yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the people to remain cautious so that the country does not go under the control of the evil forces who were involved in the August 15 massacre.

Ever since her son went missing four years ago, Shahida Begum, 65, has knocked at every possible door -- local police, Rab, political leaders.

Illegal gas and power lines pose serious dangers to around 1.55 lakh people living in three slums of the capital -- Korail Bosti in Mohakhali, Bhasantek Bosti and Chalantika Bosti in Mirpur.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said the plying of vehicles on the Padma Bridge would begin by June 2021.

Two men allegedly raped a female student of a private university at an office in the capital’s Shyamoli area where she went to appear for a job interview on Tuesday afternoon.

Apart from eyes that fight weariness, each of them has one thing in common: they are all waiting for their husbands -- who had gone missing years ago in a notorious spate of enforced disappearances.

Bangladesh has urged the global community to be more aggressive to help thrash out a sustainable solution to the Rohingya crisis. “Global leadership and international organisations have to be more active to compel Myanmar to make arrangements for the Rohingya return,” Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said yesterday.

Three more, including two children, died from dengue fever in Dhaka, Rangpur and Faridpur yesterday. With them, 123 people have died this year after being infected with the mosquito-borne disease.

The opposition Labour Party yesterday said it would trigger an emergency debate in parliament next week to try to stop Prime Minister Boris Johnson taking Britain out of the European Union without a withdrawal deal.

The High Court yesterday granted bail to Ayesha Siddika Minni on conditions that she cannot talk to the media and she will remain in her father’s custody.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will suspend Britain’s parliament for more than a month before Brexit, enraging opponents and raising the stakes in the country’s most serious political crisis in decades.

Three more people, including a garment worker, died after contracting dengue in Dhaka, Khulna and Mymensingh yesterday. With these, a total of 120 people died this year after being infected by the mosquito-borne disease. The DGHS, however, has so far confirmed 52 deaths from dengue.

The family of the BIWTC official, who lost her left leg in a road crash in the city on Tuesday, has turned down a compensation offer of Tk 2 lakh from the owners of the bus which was involved in the accident.

The expatriates’ welfare ministry has launched a probe into an incident in which people beat up a Bangladeshi manpower broker inside the Bangladesh High Commission in Brunei on August 21.

Expressing utter dismay at the deaths of people from dengue fever, the High Court yesterday directed the authorities to take more effective measures across the country to prevent the spread of Aedes mosquito that carries the dengue virus.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged planned development of rural areas, keeping in mind the country’s high population density.