The outbound passengers at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport go through a painful ordeal as they need to wait even for hours in long queues just to enter the airport and drop off luggage for scanning.

Health experts fear the exodus of thousands city dwellers during the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha vacations could further spread the dengue outbreak in the city, as mosquitoes might use the empty homes, schools and offices as prime breeding grounds.

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, founder of Brac, announced his retirement as chairperson of BRAC Bangladesh and BRAC International yesterday.

A Feni court yesterday framed charge against Siraj Ud Daula, suspended principal of Sonagazi Islamia Senior Fazil Madrasa, over sexual assault on Nusrat Jahan Rafi.

An officer-in-charge and several other policemen allegedly gang-raped a woman in Khulna on Friday night.

Tougher sanctions are needed against Myanmar’s wealthy and powerful military as its web of economic interests has generated a fortune that helps fund atrocities, UN investigators said yesterday.

The source eradication is the key to eliminating Aedes mosquitoes as well as checking Dengue outbreak and for this participation of mass people is necessary alongside the government efforts, experts say.

Most of the people who died of dengue this year suffered shock syndrome and were second-time infected, said the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR).

The Indian government yesterday stripped Kashmir of the special autonomy it has had for seven decades, prompting a furious response from nuclear-armed rival Pakistan and raising fears of further violence in the Muslim-majority Himalayan region.

The adult female Aedes mosquito population in the capital is now around 14 times higher than it was in the pre-monsoon period, a government survey has found.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit India in October to further bilateral relations between the two friendly neighbours.

At least six aspirants, including Jatiya Party founder HM Ershad’s son, his youngest brother and nephew, want to contest the upcoming Rangpur-3 by-polls with the party ticket.

It has been more than three years since Bakul Chakma filed a complaint with the CHT Land Dispute Resolution Commission in February 2016. He accused some Bangalees of grabbing two acres of his farmland and a three-acre homestead.

The Central Police Hospital in Rajarbagh, which sees an average of 200 patients a day, has been without the NS1 kits needed for dengue detection since July 30.

The indigenous people are in a critical situation in terms of human rights abuses, Parbatya Chattogram Jana Sanghati Samity Chairman Santu Larma said yesterday.

Dengue continues to spread with another 1,649 hospitalised in 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday.

With dengue cases rising fast even outside Dhaka, experts now fear that a second variety of Aedes mosquito is responsible for the rapid spread of the viral disease.

Repeated tragic deaths and loss of property in fire and building disasters in the capital could have been averted had the housing and public works ministry as the administrative authority held Rajuk duly accountable for its job, said serving and former top officials.

Raiyan Sarker, 11, lost the battle against dengue at a city hospital on Friday. After burying him at a Tejgaon graveyard, his father Momin Sarker went straight back to the hospital later that night to attend to his daughter, who is suffering from the same disease.

Justice is often delayed even in cases filed under some special laws because of non-implementation of relevant provisions for a speedy completion of the trials.