The wife of a July uprising victim broke down in tears before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday, alleging that her daughter was raped in Patuakhali’s Dumki while returning from her father’s grave.

The Dhaka-Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar national highway (N1) recorded 228 road accidents, the highest number among major highways in Bangladesh, and caused 928 casualties in 18 months till June this year, according to a study.

President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday laid the foundation stone of Thakurgaon University, fulfilling a decades-old demand for a public university in the district.

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman yesterday urged Japan’s Special Envoy for National Reconciliation in Myanmar Yohei Sasakawa to play a role in ensuring the safe, voluntary and dignified repatriation of Rohingyas to their homeland.

State Minister for Energy Aninda Islam Amit yesterday told parliament that the government has adopted short-, medium- and long-term plans to address the energy and electricity crisis.

Farmers in three districts yesterday forcibly took fertilisers, blocked roads, and confined a dealer.

For years, 46 government entities flout the law and fail to publish data

As the government aims to raise the country’s literacy rate to between 86 and 90 percent by 2030, nearly half of children aged seven to 14 still fail to read and understand a simple story.

A bridge built over the Fatikhi river in Magura’s Shalikha upazila at a cost of more than Tk 16 crore has remained unused for two years as the approach road on one end is yet to be completed.

Shaymol Dash, an anthropology student of Dhaka University, wanted to know how many people in his home district, Sunamganj, live with mental or physical impairments.

Three children died with measles-like symptoms in the 24 hours until 8:00am yesterday, taking Bangladesh’s combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 997 this year.

Existing laws allow the International Crimes Tribunal to confiscate property, impose fines and order compensation for victims’ families, but the Rules of Procedure lack a clear mechanism for enforcing such orders, ICT Chief Prosecutor Md Aminul Islam said yesterday.

The health authorities have directed all civil surgeons to step up hospital preparedness and public awareness efforts to prevent dengue and reduce fatalities, as the disease continues to cause more deaths and hospitalisations each day.

A local BNP leader was shot dead in the Chandipasha area of Atghoria upazila in Pabna yesterday afternoon.

Ahsanul Haque Tanvir, a customer of First Security Islami Bank’s (FSIBL) Topkhana Road branch, repeatedly visited the bank over the past one and a half years to withdraw his deposit of Tk 48 lakh, but in vain. On Monday, he finally withdrew the full amount from his savings account.

A court yesterday placed the prime accused in a case filed over the killing of a Special Branch (SB) sub-inspector in Savar on a five-day remand.

The Secretary Committee on Administrative Improvement has approved a proposal to amend relevant rules to increase viva marks by up to 400 percent while lowering the written test pass mark for recruitment to grades 11-20.

The “Child, Not Bride” campaign, aimed at preventing child and forced marriage and promoting the safety and security of girls, was officially launched yesterday at a city hotel.

Government websites in Bangladesh remain stuck in an earlier era of the internet: hard to search, poorly organised, and accessibility features that often do not work, according to technology experts.

Full-fledged cancer, kidney and cardiac hospitals in each of Bangladesh’s eight divisional cities will begin operations by the next fiscal year, State Minister for Health MA Muhit said yesterday.