The UN Committee on the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (CMW) will review Bangladesh situation on April 3-4, reports UNB. The Committee will discuss a range of issues relating to the implementation of International Convention on the Protection of the Rights…

The bodies of six women, who went missing following a trawler capsize in the Meghna River in Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj on Thursday, were recovered from the river yesterday, raising the death from the accident to 10, reports UNB. The deceased were identified as Joybunnesa, 65, and her two daughters…

A local Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) activist was hacked to death by miscreants near Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital (SOMCH) in Sylhet city yesterday, reports UNB. Officer-in-charge of Kotwali Police Station Sohel Ahmed said a group of miscreants hacked Don Hasan, 27, of Kajalshah area…

Warning that wheat blast could be "catastrophic" for South Asia, scientists from Bangladesh, which was ravaged by an outbreak of the disease in 2016, have offered to help their Indian counterparts tackle the deadly fungal foe, reported here for the first time this year, reports the statesman…