A female inmate who escaped from Kashimpur Central Women's Prison in Gazipur has been captured by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-2) from the Mohammadpur area of Dhaka, two days after her escape.
Four newly recruited candidates for the post of Office Support Staff at Bangladesh's Ministry of Public Administration have been arrested on charges of examination fraud after authorities discovered that other individuals had allegedly sat for their written and viva recruitment exams.
Bangladesh has reinstated the phrase "Except Israel" on its passports, six years after it was removed during the tenure of the ousted Awami League government.
Leading mobile financial services (MFS) provider, bKash Limited, has reduced its cash-out charge, making the service more affordable for its users.
Transparency International Bangladesh has described the government's decision to retain the Tk50,000 monthly vehicle maintenance allowance for entitled officials as a "helpless surrender" to bureaucratic influence, saying it had overturned the prime minister's austerity directive.
Rights watchdog Ain o Salish Kendra has condemned the attack in which miscreants allegedly demolished the house of a local Awami League leader with an excavator, looted valuables and set the property on fire in Mirzaganj upazila of Patuakhali.