With voting still to go in two final phases, the 2016 Union Parishad election, being held along party lines for the first time, has already secured the…

Police yesterday recovered bodies of two women from two different areas in the capital. Among the two, Abida Sultana Annanya, 20, a private university student, allegedly committed suicide at her home in Pallabi while Majeda Begum, 45, a domestic help, was electrocuted at a house where she worked in…

Pabna: Five people, including four members of a family, remained missing for the last 12 days till yesterday as they have been picked up by some people in black clothes from Faridpur uapzila in Pabna and Ullahpara upazila in Sirajganj, reports UNB. Those who remained missing are three siblings -- Tikka…

Five people, including two children died in road crashes in two districts yesterday. In Munshiganj, three teenage boys were killed and 14 others injured in a head on a collision between a pick-up van and a truck on Dhaka-Mawa highway in Nimtoli area of Sirajdikhan upazila yesterday morning, reports…

Two children drowned in the River Padma at Bakherali in Chapainawabganj Sadar upazila yesterday. The deceased were identified as Ramzan, 5, son of Mozammel Hoque and his cousin Lipi, 7, daughter of Shamsul Hoque, both of the aforesaid area. Police and local sources said as the two cousins went to bathe…

Two people, including a policeman, were arrested yesterday for allegedly attempting to violate a widow in Daganbhuiyan upazila of Feni, reports UNB. The arrestees were identified as Delwar Hossain, an assistant sub-inspector of Daganbhuiyan Police Station, and Abdul Mannan. Police said the widow went…

A new global network for local and national organisations has been launched ahead of the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul. It will monitor whether global humanitarian aid is being properly utilised. Degan Ali of Somalia has been elected chairperson of the Network for Empowered Aid Response (NEAR),…

Civil society members in Comilla yesterday demanded that the report of the 2nd autopsy conducted on the body of Comilla Victoria College student Sohagi Jahan Tonu be made public soon to put the killers on trial, reports UNB. The demand came from a human chain programme formed in front of the Town Hall…