At least eight dengue patients died in the 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, the second-highest single-day death toll from the disease this year, while 1,733 new cases were reported, the highest daily tally so far.

Around three and a half months after Bangladesh Bank announced guidelines for a loan scheme to reopen closed factories, not a single taka has been disbursed under the Tk 20,000 crore programme.

The Gopalganj district administration has converted the century-old building of a public library into a government officers’ club, frustrating bibliophiles.

A fire broke out at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital yesterday evening, triggering panic among patients and attendants as smoke spread through the building.

Final justice is yet to be delivered in the 2013 murder case in which police officer Mahfuzur Rahman and his wife Swapna Rahman were killed by their daughter Oishee Rahman.

Student organisations yesterday protested the display of founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s photos in the renovated Ducsu photo gallery. They also tore up two photographs.

Joint statement urges reconstitution of the committees and full implementation of the Chattogram Hill Tracts Accord

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested five people from different parts of the country for allegedly selling citizens’ personal information online after obtaining it from government servers.

A sharp rise in Bangla QR transactions since July has raised concerns among industry insiders, including mobile financial service providers, who suspect that a portion of the surge may be driven by fake or suspicious payments rather than genuine purchases.

National Citizen Party (NCP) yesterday formally named its chief coordinator Nasiruddin Patwary as its mayoral candidate for Dhaka South City Corporation and spokesperson Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain for Dhaka North City Corporation.

The government has proposed amendments to the Cyber Security Act 2026, criminalising defamation and introducing prison terms and fines for “humiliation” and “bullying”, significantly expanding the range of online expression punishable under the law.

Chief Justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury has formed 26 High Court benches with its 44 judges to dispose of cases in two phases during the upcoming annual vacation, according to two notifications.

Hilsa production is declining after a steady rise over two decades due to water pollution from three power plants located near the Hilsa Sanctuary, siltation of rivers and overfishing, raising concerns about the much-loved fish’s sustainability and affordability.

The Appellate and High Court divisions of the Supreme Court have disposed of more than 98,700 cases in the first eight months of the current year.

With the current Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) set to complete its one-year term today, Islami Chhatra Shibir has begun preparations for the next election, while Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal is focused on forming its new central and university committees.

A court in Habiganj yesterday sentenced two men to death for raping and murdering a girl in Nabiganj upazila, Habiganj, in 2021.

The government is set to introduce electric trains for the first time in Bangladesh on the 52km Narayanganj-Dhaka-Joydebpur route.

Three children died with measles-like symptoms in the 24 hours until 8:00am yesterday, raising the combined number of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 1,022 this year, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Alleged collusion among dealers and retailers to hike fertiliser prices by “creating an artificial shortage” through hoarding and supply control is causing discontent among farmers, according to a report prepared by the Special Branch of the police.

Four people, including the bride’s brother and sister, were killed and seven others injured when a lorry hit a microbus carrying relatives returning home after a wedding programme in Karnaphuli upazila in Chattogram early yesterday.