A total of 27 wards under the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) have been identified as high-risk zones for dengue, while larval density of Aedes mosquitoes has reached alarming levels in 63 out of 75 wards, according to a pre-monsoon survey.
The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has announced plans to introduce real-time surveillance measures to curb market manipulation, alongside broader reforms aimed at modernising the country’s capital market.
Concerns over multiple cases filed against former Member of Parliament and Supreme Court lawyer Syed Sayedul Haque Suman, his prolonged incarceration, and broader human rights issues in Bangladesh have been raised in the upper house of Australia’s New South Wales Parliament.
The closing arguments have concluded in the high-profile case filed over the rape and murder of child Ramisa Akter in the capital's Pallabi. Following the hearing, Judge Masroor Salekin of the Dhaka Metropolitan Child Violence Suppression Tribunal fixed upcoming Sunday (June 7) to deliver the verdict.
This time, the police have recovered the semi-decomposed body of a woman named Selina Afroz, 55, from a house in the capital's Pallabi area. According to police sources, Selina Afroz had been living alone in a flat in Section-6 of Pallabi for a long time. Upon receiving the information, the police went to the spot and recovered her body.
The Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Bangladesh, Stefan Liller, paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Thursday (June 4).