Rapid Action Battalion rescued a woman from an Ashulia house in Savar outside the capital yesterday three days after she had been kidnapped from Narsingdi.

Seven Bangladeshi nationals, including a child, returned home through Benapole check post on Thursday night after serving two years' sentence in a Kerala jail in India.

High Court Circuit Bench Implementation Council, Chittagong yesterday demanded that the government establish a circuit bench of High Court in the divisional city.

Bangladesh Coast Guard members yesterday arrested 168 fishermen in the Bay of Bengal near Sangu gas field area and seized 3,080kgs of hilsa, worth Tk 24.64 lakh, which they caught defying the ongoing temporary ban on hilsa fishing.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members recovered 60 gold bars, weighing around seven kilograms, in the district's Kalaroa upazila yesterday.

Climate change might make the world's stock markets and banks unstable and lead to a financial crash, said Mark Carney, the head of the G20 countries' Financial Stability Board.

The Mahanagar Sarbojonin Puja Committee yesterday urged the government to shift this year's public holiday on Durga Puja from October

Three renowned child litterateurs were awarded the Chandrabati Academy Shishu Sahitya Prize for their outstanding contribution to children's literature yesterday.

Undergoing treatment at a psychiatric hospital, Riad astonished his family when the 14-year-old said he would take medicine only if he was allowed to smoke marijuana or drink alcohol afterwards. He was finally given sedatives and put to sleep.

A cross-section of society joined a rally of demonstrators in the capital's Shahbagh yesterday demanding fresh tests for admission to medical and dental colleges citing question paper leak, and a fair probe into the death of a UGC official in Rab custody on Thursday.

Border Guard Bangladesh seized 15,000 pieces of cattle fattening tablets named Provit in Fakirpara area at Hili border of Hakimpur upazila in Dinajpur yesterday.

The Detective Branch of police on Thursday night arrested two officials of a fake non-government organisation (NGO) in Pirojpur town

Community health care providers in Chittagong division yesterday demanded nationalisation of their job.

Mahatma Gandhi Smarak Sadan has organised a discussion titled "Gandhir Shikkha O Shamashamoyik Biswa" marking Gandhi's 146th birthday today.

Countries that had issued security alerts for their citizens in Dhaka following the murder of an Italian citizen last week have now started softening their tone of travel advisory.

Chinese Ambassador in Dhaka Ma Mingqiang said China has taken up several initiatives like the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as the country is duty-bound to make contributions to international development endeavours.

Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority (BHTPA) and Re-Tem Corporation, Japan, yesterday signed a memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for planning, developing and successfully implementing hi-tech parks in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh urgently needs an effective hydro-geological database to manage and preserve its water resources, experts told a workshop in the capital yesterday.

A law stating both preventive and punitive measures is required to check the recent rise in violence against women and children, speakers said at a discussion yesterday.

Some bus operators in Dhaka have already raised fares while most are to do so in a couple of days as the new rates, fixed by the government in line with the recent hike in the price of compressed natural gas (CNG) and announced on September 10, came into effect yesterday.