An uneasy calm prevailed in Guimara upazila of Khagrachhari yesterday, a day after three Marma men were shot dead during protests over the rape of a schoolgirl.

Study surveyed 778 female workers (ages 15–27) over 24 months

Bangladesh will seek political commitment from the international community for Rohingya repatriation, funding, and accountability for the Rohingya genocide at the high-level conference on the Rohingyas in New York today.

A Dhaka court has ordered the freezing of investments worth 353 million Thai baht (about Tk 133 crore) in seven companies in Thailand by former National Bank Chairman Zainul Haque Sikder’s three children.

Successive governments have blamed “local or foreign conspiracies” for communal violence rather than holding the perpetrators to account, Prof Anu Muhammad said yesterday.

Home Adviser Jahangir Alam Chowdhury yesterday alleged that the recent violence in Khagrachhari is being fuelled “by a neighbouring country and fascist groups”.

A youth was stabbed to death by a group of unidentified miscreants in Dhaka's Mirpur yesterday while his father was injured while attempting to save him.

National Citizen Party’s joint chief organiser for the north Alik Mree, tendered his resignation in protest against the party’s “silence” over the recent violence and killings in Khagrachhari following protests over the rape of a schoolgirl.

Islami Bank has made 4,771 officials OSD (officer on special duty) and terminated another 200 for violating service rules.

Named Aviation Guard Bangladesh (AGB), the force would comprise 7,650 personnel

At least four people were killed and five others injured in two road accidents in Gazipur city yesterday.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday lodged a case against 14 individuals over laundering Tk 40 crore in the name of manpower export to Malaysia.

Japan has provided $3.4 million to the World Food Programme for the Rohingya and host communities in Cox’s Bazar as lifesaving support amid dwindling funding that poses serious risks for the refugees.

A shift in the mindset of political party leaders regarding power and energy supply is essential to ensure a smooth transition to renewable energy, said speakers at a dialogue yesterday.

Former industries minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun, who was in jail custody, died yesterday while undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

In the heart of a festive neighbourhood, where drums beat and lights glitter for Durga Puja, one home remains eerily quiet.

Child abuse in Bangladesh has reached alarming levels and is now a serious national crisis, warned the Local Education and Economic Development Organization (LEEDO), a child rights organisation, yesterday.

Rights groups and political parties across the country have demanded an independent investigation into the violence in Khagrachhari that left three indigenous people dead and many others injured.

Thirteen years have passed since the night of horror at Ramu in Cox’s Bazar, when zealots set ablaze centuries-old Buddhist temples, looted homes and spread fear among the minority community.

Women will soon have the legal right to take their children to workplaces, as the interim government has decided to introduce this provision, said Dr Wahiduddin Mahmud, adviser to the planning ministry, at an event yesterday.