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.

Eleven people, including seven women, were killed in road accidents in Thakurgaon and Savar yesterday.

Experts are worried that dengue outbreak would remain a serious threat at least until October and they are not ruling out November.

Minhaz Uddin was one of over a thousand fishermen who earned a living by fishing in a five-kilometre stretch of the Dhaleshwari river, from Fulbaria to Vakurta downstream.

The United States and Russia ripped up a Cold War-era missile pact yesterday in a move that raised the spectre of an arms race between the global superpowers.

Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of Muslims, will be celebrated across the country on August 12 as the new moon of the Arabic month of Zilhaj was sighted in Bangladesh sky yesterday.

Rabbi’s dengue fever has left him and his family devastated. The nine-year-old boy, living with his parents in Tejgaon, started having a fever on Monday. The temperature kept going up and the

Owners of the 19 private inland container depots increased their tariffs yesterday amid strong opposition from businesses and in violation of the ICD Policy 2016.

India wants a piece of Bangladeshi land in Brahmanbaria to upgrade and expand the Agartala airport, which is set to become the third international airport in India’s northeastern region by the end of this year or early next year.

Zaher Ali signed three papers on July 26 last year, transferring his 88-decimal land in Sarulia of Demra in the capital to a housing project run by some top police officials.

“Do you want to kill my son?” a worried mother yelled at staffers of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital in the capital. Her son, Mohammad Ali, 13, from Mohammadpur Geneva Camp, has had a 104-degree fever for the past three days.

A Dhaka Court yesterday framed charges against six Ansar al Islam leaders and activists, including Maj (sacked) Ziaul Haque in a case over the killing of blogger and writer Avijit Roy.

A new insecticide to kill mosquitos is expected to arrive in the country in a few days and, after necessary lab tests, it will be imported within the next couple of weeks, lawyers of the two Dhaka city corporations told the High Court yesterday.

A man was stabbed to death and his wife injured at their daughter’s wedding allegedly by a stalker of the bride in the capital’s Moghbazar yesterday.

The IGP yesterday instructed police officials not to stop any truck carry-ing sacrificial animals on the highways unless there is a specific allegation.

There was no change in approach, body language, game plan and execution as Bangladesh suffered a 122-run defeat against Sri Lanka in the third and final ODI at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo yesterday to end their dismal tour with a 3-0 whitewash.

There is no harmful substance such as lead and antibiotic in packaged milk of seven local brands, the agriculture minister said yesterday, citing a latest government study.

Bangladesh strives to fulfil its commitment to complying with the convention against torture, said Law Minister Anisul Haq yesterday. The minister, who presented the country’s maiden periodic report to the Committee against Torture (CAT) in Geneva on Tuesday, sai

Bangladesh can take a page out of Kolkata’s playbook in tackling the spread of dengue, which has already infected a record 17,183 people in the country.

When the country is grappling with a record number of dengue cases, different hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres face a short supply of a kit that is needed to detect the fever at the early stage.