A 14-year-old girl has reportedly been gang-raped in Dhaka’s Kaula area.

At least 30 Italy-returnees, out of 142 who were quarantined at Ashkona Hajj Camp, have been protesting outside the camp claiming “mismanagement by the authorities”.

For the first time ever, a day-long Fagua festival was held in the remote Sreemangal upazila headquarters, about 42 kilometres from Moulvibazar district town.

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Room-1013 of Shaheed Sergeant Zahurul Haq Hall at Dhaka University, a four-bed room, is home to some 30 students, mostly freshers and sophomores; many crowd on the beds every night, while some have to take the floor.

An alleged stalker reportedly killed a youth as the victim talked against him during a village arbitration in Cumilla’s Raghurampur village on Thursday.

Six people, including four in Mymensingh alone, were killed in separate road accidents across the country yesterday.

Supporters of an Awami League-backed councillor candidate and a “rebel” candidate from the party yesterday clashed during campaign, ahead of Chattogram City Corporation election, injuring two people.

A homeless youth who was sleeping on a footpath was killed following a collision between a truck and a lorry in the capital’s Bangla Motor area early yesterday.

The genocide during the Liberation War of 1971 has to be documented, at last to recognise those people who sacrificed their lives for independence, Bernard-Henri Lévy, a French intellectual who covered the war then as a journalist, said yesterday.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday bemoaned that the country’s media industry is now “under the grip of businessmen who cannot go against the government in order to protect their own interests”.

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Both BNP and AL-nominated mayoral candidates of Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) polls focused on issues relating to holding taxes while campaigning yesterday, pledging to keep the tax rate at a tolerable level so residents do not suffer.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claims to have arrested the leader of fraud gang, who had been misappropriating money from mobile banking users, from Dhaka’s Mirpur area.

The ruling Awami League-backed panel has won six posts including that of the president out of 14 posts in the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) election.

All 112 people, including 23 Bangladeshis, who were admitted to a quarantine facility in India for over a fortnight after their return from China, have tested negative for coronavirus and are expected to be released today, a senior official says.

One of the two persons who recovered from COVID-19 infection, left the hospital and were sent home, Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora, director of Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), said today.

Speakers at a discussion yesterday said the Citizenship Amendment Act in India must be an internal matter of the country, and the Indian government should promise CAA would not affect Bangladesh.

Speakers at a roundtable yesterday said digital financial transactions saved time and expenses of social safety net programme beneficiaries across the country, and ensured transparency of transactions.