Office-goers and students struggle through downpour as showers bring relief from recent heat

Bogura BNP leader alleges Tanvir made defamatory and provocative remarks

258 women and girls were victims of violence

Police recovered the body of an unidentified man from a pond in Begumganj upazila of Noakhali yesterday.

A CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver was killed and another injured in a head-on collision with a pickup on Kabirhat-Sonapur road in Kabirhat upazila, Noakhali yesterday.

A farmer was killed after being struck by lightning in Dinajpur’s Biral upazila yesterday.

Bangladesh has sought India’s cooperation to ensure that deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, or any individual associated with the Awami League, cannot use Indian territory to deliver political speeches or engage in activities aimed at creating instability in Bangladesh.

A man handed his 20-year-old son over to police after the youth was allegedly caught attempting to rape a six-year-old girl in Jashore’s Manirampur upazila on Sunday.

Over 3,000MW of loadshedding recorded yesterday

Residents of Barguna yesterday laid siege to the local office of West Zone Power Distribution Company Limited (WZPDCL), demanding an end to frequent load shedding and implementation of a seven-point charter to resolve the district’s electricity crisis.

It began with a question that resonated with millions of young Bangladeshis competing for scarce government jobs: should merit take a back seat to quotas?

Residents of Santhia municipality in Pabna have long faced a shortage of safe drinking water, while a purification plant built at a cost of Tk 7.61 crore has remained unused for the past five years.

Dhaka is positive about signing civilian nuclear energy cooperation with the US, State Minster for Foreign Affairs Shama Obaed Islam said yesterday.

Prime Minister’s Foreign Affairs Adviser Humayun Kabir yesterday said stronger institutional partnerships and knowledge sharing with China would be crucial for long-term development of Bangladesh.

The central and grassroots leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami and the National Citizen Party (NCP) have questioned the alliance’s future after Jamaat decided to contest the local government elections on its own.

Police recovered the body of a madrasa student in Dhaka’s Shanir Akhra area yesterday afternoon.

Sakhina Begum had seen better days once upon a time. It was another life when she was part of a well-to-do family, and villagers called her Mondol-er bou. Now she has grown old and frail, and her husband has lost all his land to the ravenous Brahmaputra.

Australia has committed AUD 25.25 million ($18 million) in multi-year humanitarian assistance to help sustain life-saving support for Rohingya refugees and their host communities in Bangladesh.

Admiral Stephen Koehler, commander of the US Pacific Fleet, is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka today for three-day official visit to discuss defence partnership and expand maritime security cooperation, US Embassy in Dhaka said in a statement yesterday.

The High Court yesterday ordered the authorities to recover the encroached land of Infectious Diseases Hospital in Mohakhali within 30 days.