Police yesterday seized a consignment of cannabis brownies and arrested three youths for selling, preparing, and consuming those from the capital’s Mohammadpur.

Three people were killed in separate road accidents across three districts yesterday, report our correspondents.

Two teenage girls were raped in Bandar upazila of Narayanganj on Tuesday, said police.

US-Bangla Airlines is going to resume flights on Dubai-Dhaka route from June 18.

Protesting felling of trees on the Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University campus, people from all strata of life formed a human chain in Tangail town yesterday.

Jatiya Party yesterday finalized its candidates for the by-elections to three parliamentary constituencies -- Sylhet-3, Dhaka-14 and Cumilla-5 -- scheduled to be held on July 14.

Dhaka University (DU) and Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) have failed to make any progress in the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) world university ranking of 2022 published yesterday.

Two members of a transnational human trafficking racket yesterday confessed to a magistrate that they were involved in trafficking young women and girls to India for one year.

Speakers at a post-budget webinar urged the government to publish the gender budget report during the final release of the proposed budget for the fiscal year 2021-2022 and take the necessary initiatives to ensure women empowerment and gender equality by allocating specific budget for women and taking necessary work plans in the development programmes.

An anchored fishing trawler capsized at Karnaphuli river early yesterday.

Even though Covid-19 cases have been rising alarmingly since the last couple of weeks in Rangpur, there is still no ICU support at the hospitals in six districts of the division.

With the number of Covid-19 patients on the rise, the dedicated hospital for treating coronavirus in Khulna is struggling to cope with the pressure.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will launch 50 out of 560 model mosques today.

A few yards south of the capital’s Bahadur Shah Park, near Sadarghat terminal, is a bend where you will find the age-old Banglabazar Government Girls High School and missionary-run Heed International School. And surrounding them is a long series of book stores and stationery shops, where students and their guardians would throng to on a usual day to buy books, pens and pencils.

A fish trader was killed in a road accident on Majkandi-Bhatiapara road in Boalmari upazila of Faridpur yesterday morning.

United Hospital Limited (UHL) has started evening outpatient department (OPD) with 35 consultants, according to a press release by the private hospital.

Bangladesh and Austria signed the Air Services Agreement (ASA) in Vienna on Monday.

Today is the first death anniv-ersary of Shahid Ullah Patwary, a renowned journalist, said a press release.

Authorities at Enam Medical College and Hospital in Savar allegedly collected outstanding bill of Tk 3.20 lakh by holding the body of a deceased for over 24 hours.

Although tenure of the vice-chancellor (VC) of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR) is over, he is reportedly continuing to do official work of the post. Hence, a section of the university’s teachers has served a legal notice to stop his activities as VC.