A Bangladeshi youth, who was shot and wounded allegedly by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in Sunamganj’s Tahirpur upazila on Saturday afternoon, died at a hospital in Sylhet the same night.

A large portion of the peanut fields in the raised sandy basin of the Teesta river in three upazilas of Rangpur has been flooded due to the sudden rise of water level, only a few days before the usual harvesting time.

Only three months ago, Thanchi Mri would spend her days giving women beauty treatments in air-conditioned rooms of a parlour in Dhaka.

Two girls were allegedly raped in Boalmari upazila of Faridpur and Chattogram city’s Bayezid Bostami Debarpar since yesterday evening.

Jatiya Party today relieved the much-talked-about JP leader and a former MP from Laxmipur-2 Mohammad Noman, as he left the election field in the 2018 national election in support of independent MP Mohammad Shahid Islam (Papul), in exchange for a huge amount of money from the latter, who stands accused in Kuwait of multiple charges including human trafficking.

The LGRD ministry today suspended two more union parishad chairmen on charges of forgery in preparing list of beneficiaries of the prime minister’s cash assistance programme and VGD cards.

The total number of police personnel infected with Covid-19 across the country crossed 10,000, according to a tally by the Police Headquarters.

Three people were killed in what Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) termed a gunfight in the Sundarbans. Two more people were injured in the incident. Rab members rescued two fishermen from there.

Superintendent of Jashore Police Muhammad Ashraf Hossain today submitted a probe report to the High Court, saying that three police personnel of Kotwali Police Station had taken “unethical benefits” from the father of college student Imran Hossain for releasing him from their custody.

Heavy rainfall and rising water from the upstream caused flash floods in char areas under six upazilas of Bogura and Gaibandha over last couple of days.

After receiving complaint on social media, police in a special drive, have arrested a human trafficker from Mymensingh district.

The flood situation has aggravated in Sirajganj, as Jamuna River is flowing above danger level, leaving over 50,000 families in five upazilas of the district marooned.

Three day labourers were killed in a road accident on the Dhaka-Tangail highway at Mirzapur upazila early today.

Police on Friday night arrested a man in Chilmari upazila of Kurigram in a case filed in Dhaka on charges of torture for dowry and foeticide.

Criminals killed a trader in Babuganj upazila on Friday.

Police recovered the body of young man in Bhaluka upazila yesterday.

With cases of Covid-19 showing no sign of decline in the country, traders and buyers at Barobabazar goat market in Jhenidah town, like elsewhere in the country, continue to conduct business without maintaining any health measures to prevent the spread of the pandemic.

Jadukata, a transboundary river originating from Khasi Hills of India and flowing through Sunamganj’s Tahirpur and Bishwamvarpur upazilas, is famed for its scenic beauty.

Police have recovered the body of a schoolboy two days after he was abducted from near his home in Shariatpur’s Jajira upazila.

Local journalists today formed a human chain in Habiganj demanding withdrawal of a case filed against two reporters under the Digital Security Act (DSA) on March 15.