A 26-year-old accused died while undergoing treatment at Bagerhat District Hospital yesterday after being remanded at a police station.

The Sati river in Lalmonirhat, once a vibrant waterbody around 500 feet wide, has now shrunk to a channel barely six to seven feet across after years of unchecked encroachment, pollution and negligence.

Kalikapur Char is a remote shoal within the Teesta river under Lalmonirhat’s Kaliganj upazila.

Thirteen years after the killing of Abdul Khaleq, then general secretary of Jubo Dal’s Putkhali union unit in Benapole, his family has finally filed a murder case in a Jashore court.

Three people, including a woman and her daughter, were killed when a speeding truck rammed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on the Sylhet-Sunamganj regional highway yesterday morning.

Two young siblings drowned in a pond in Bogdohor village under Nabinagar union in Brahmanbaria yesterday.

UTAB warns agitation may resume if administration fails to punish culprits

Two named, one unidentified in case

The victim, Md Nazrul, 43, was a cashier at a bank's branch in Imamganj, said police

A woman died and eight others were injured after a speedboat sank in the Padma river in Dhaka’s Dohar upazila due to strong current yesterday.

Failure to secure a government contract led contractor to illegally dig up two roads in Lalmonirhat’s Kaliganj upazila, leaving thousands of residents stranded for weeks.

The body of a six-year-old girl, missing for two days, was recovered from a neighbour’s septic tank in Vedarganj upazila of Shariatpur yesterday.

Under the autumn sky, sunlight and clouds play hide-and-seek as Kashful sway gently in the breeze.

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has urged the international community to adopt and enforce strong global regulations to prevent the plunder of resources from developing countries and to ensure their return when stolen.

South Asia’s annual monsoon rains sustain more than a billion people, but climate change is making them increasingly erratic and deadly, with poor infrastructure only exacerbating the impact.

The government is set to form two new administrative divisions -- Faridpur and Cumilla -- in line with recommendations from the Public Administration Reform Commission, taking the total to 10.

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus reaffirmed his government’s commitment to implementing key reforms aligned with International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions before the upcoming national elections in February.

Senior leaders and others involved in the nomination process cited several reasons for the shortfall

The global lender introduced a new condition for the next instalment of its $5.5 billion loan package

A protest march and rally were held yesterday on Dhaka University campus, demanding the immediate arrest and exemplary punishment of those involved in the gang rape of an eighth-grade Jumma student in Khagrachhari, and protesting the arrest and assault of an indigenous student leader.