A youth was burnt to death in a fire at a warehouse in port city’s Patenga area early yesterday.

An eighth grader was allegedly raped on Sunday morning at her village in Lohagora upazila of Narail district. She is now undergoing treatment at Khulna Medical College Hospital’s ICU.

Bangladesh National Hindu Grand Alliance in a report yesterday said some 108 people of the minority community were killed and 26 went traceless across the country last year.

The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Found-ation of Eastern University was held on Tuesday.

A Dhaka court has indicted the lone accused in a case filed over rape and murder of seven-year-old Samia Afrin Saima in Dhaka’s Wari last year.

A total of 445 Bangladeshi nationals returned from India in last two months following the National Register of Citizens (NRC) published by the Indian government, virtually stripping about 19 lakh people of citizenship.

Ruling Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said 90 percent people of Bangladesh do not want BNP to run the country.

The High Court directs the government to suspend the retirement facilities of the outgoing director of National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital (NICRH) Prof Dr Md Moarraf Hossen for negligence in preserving and protecting the equipment including of the ICU at the hospital.

Workers of nine state-run jute mills in Khulna withdraw their fast-unto-death strike following assurance by Textiles and Jute Minister Golam Dastagir Gazi to fulfill their demand.

Dhaka South City Corporation’s returning office declares legal the nomination papers of all the seven candidates in the DSCC mayoral polls.

The Election Commission declares 993 aspirants valid after scrutinising the nomination papers submitted for the elections to the Dhaka North and South City Corporations scheduled for January 30.

A fire that broke out at Dhaka Bar Association has been brought under control after 45 minutes of frantic efforts.

Former Awami League lawmaker from reserved seat and a Supreme Court lawyer Fazilatun Nasa Bappy has passed away at a hospital in Dhaka. She was 49.

12-year-old Reshma Akhter, a fourth-grader of Katgor Mirapara Government Primary School, woke up early yesterday morning and prepared herself for school. It was the first day of the new year, and Reshma could barely hold her excitement of getting her hands on brand-new books. She set out to attend school in delight.

Police arrested two persons after a group of criminals stabbed a local hawkers’ leader to death and injured another in port city’s Shershah area on Tuesday night.

Police on Tuesday night arrested eight people, including two foreigners, in a drive at Panchaboti area of Rajshahi city on charges of buying and selling drugs.

Dhaka University’s department of pharmaceutical technology yesterday relieved a teacher of all academic activities of one batch of the department, for allegedly threatening some students.

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda yesterday said there is no scope left to reconsider whether the polls of two city corporations in Dhaka and by-polls of Chattogram-8 constituency would be held through electronic voting machines (EVM), as the Election Commission has already decided to hold those polls through EVM.

Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (Bapa) and Bangladesh Environment Network (BEN) will organise a daylong conference on environmental movement at Stamford University in the capital on Saturday.

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