Four workers have died in two separate incidents while working inside tanks at under-construction buildings in Chattogram. Two died in the Noapara area of Raozan upazila, and two others died in the Dhaniyala Para area under Double Mooring Police Station in the city.
The government will introduce a special allowance for families of victims of enforced disappearances, Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives Minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said. He also said that those responsible for such disappearances will be brought to justice.
A Class IX student has been accused of slapping and punching a female teacher in the classroom for maintaining discipline at Dr Shawkat Ali Bhuiya High School in Ghatail, Tangail, causing widespread outrage in the area.
The government has formed a 12-member high-level committee, led by Commerce, Industries, Textiles and Jute Minister Khandakar Abdul Muqtadir, to ensure transparency and accountability in the management of donation funds at the shrine of Hazrat Shahjalal (R).
More than 24 hours after a mother and her three daughters were hacked to death in Lakshmipur's Raipur, police are yet to file a case as they await a formal complaint from the victims' family.
A Jamaat-e-Islami party meeting was held in a mosque in Mithapukur upazila of Rangpur. The chairman candidate for the union council election was announced from the meeting.