AN INCREASING number of death from dengue infection may have been the result, as experts believe, of mutation in both the dengue virus and its vector 鈥� primarily, Aedes aegypti. As dengue virus has its genome based on ribonucleic acid which can mutate fast to adapt to adverse conditions, experts say that such...
A local journalist was reportedly hacked to death over a feud in front of his house at Tarakanda upazila in Mymensingh on Saturday morning.
A Dhaka court on Saturday remanded another accused of murder of Tanjeel Jahan Islam Tamim in police custody for four days for interrogation...
A 32-year-old man was beaten to death allegedly by a group of more than 30 people, including staff of a real estate company owned by Bangladesh Nationalist Party national executive committee...
AN ALARMING increase in mob violence in two months is disconcerting, especially because a major policy focus of the interim government is to improve law and order and to restore public trust in law enforcement. In August鈥揝eptember, after the fall of the Awami League regime, as Ain O Salish Kendra says, at least 49 people were killed in mob violence. In the corresponding period in 2023, the number of mob violence deaths was 10...
Wednesday was the 25th death anniversary of famous sociologist and head of the Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development founder Akhtar Hamid Khan...
The 20th anniversary of the death of eminent artist SM Sultan, best known for his unique depiction of the strength, vigour and vitality of rural people, will be observed today...
A youth was allegedly stabbed to death by muggers on the Azampur footbridge in the capital鈥檚 Uttara area on Sunday morning...
The death reference of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology鈥檚 20 expelled students, sentenced to death in 2022 for the murder of fellow student Abrar Fahad, remains pending in the High Court for over two years....
Eight more people died of dengue fever in 24 hours till Sunday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 158 this year.
An officer of the Bangladesh Army was stabbed to death by suspected robbers during a drive in the Purba Maizpara area under Chokoria upazila in Cox鈥檚 Bazar district early Tuesday.
At least four people have died in custody following alleged torture during the ongoing joint operations against illegal arms and drugs since September 8, raising concerns among...
Today is the 23rd anniversary of death of playwright, director, actor, music composer, singer and organiser SM Solaiman...
UNABATED rights violations, including custodial torture, extrajudicial killing and enforced disappearances, at the hands of the law enforcement agencies, which characterised the authoritarian Awami League regime, are where reform is expected. The reported allegation that a leader of Juba Dal, the youth wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, has died in...
A Juba Dal leader was killed in an arrest operation by the joint forces in Golpukurpar area of Mymensingh on Tuesday.
Volunteers rushed to areas inundated by floods in Myanmar on Sunday as the country鈥檚 death toll from the Typhoon Yagi deluge surged to 113 and remote areas...
Many flood-affected people in Feni and Noakhali districts alleged that they got hardly any or very insufficient relief amid the ongoing flood in eastern, south-eastern and...
The death toll from the recent flood in 11 districts of Bangladesh has climbed to 54 with 2 more deaths reported in Feni district till Friday, according to disaster management and relief ministry.
The death toll in the flood jumped to 52 as 21 more deaths were reported on Thursday in the affected districts, as per the disaster management and relief ministry.
A Naogaon court on Wednesday sentenced two people to death in a drug case filed in 2023...
The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Tuesday that at least 40,476 people have been killed in the war between Israel and Palestinian militants, now in its 11th month...
A RELAXED anti-mosquito drive in the peak monsoon season in August has resulted in an increase in dengue death and infection. Both death and infection rates have doubled in August compared with that in June and July. At least 20 people died of dengue, as the Directorate General of Health Services says, and 4,041 were admitted to hospital in 21 days...
A murder case was filed against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 24 others for killing a garment worker during the mass uprising in the city鈥檚 Adabor area on August 5.
Four people, including two students, were beaten to death in two separate incidents in Jatrabari and Wari areas in the capital on Wednesday...
Today is the 20th anniversary of the death of poet, essayist and linguist Humayun Azad whose bold literary expressions and uncompromising position on progressivism made him a household name...
The death toll from the student protests rose to 377 as a bullet injured youth died on Friday while undergoing treatment at the National Institute of Neuro Sciences and Hospital in Dhaka...
THE new government that would be installed this evening should establish legal liability for victims of extrajudicial killing, custodial death, torture and enforced disappearances done during the authoritarian Awami League regime for a meaningful political transformation in the days to come. Rights organisations say that security forces have been...
Today is the twenty-first anniversary of the death of Suraiya Begum, an associate professor of the Department of Information Science and Library Management of the...
A national mass inquiry commission was formed on Monday to investigate the crimes of killing, shooting, torture and mass arrests of students and people linked to the student protests for quota reform in July 16鈥�21...
A 35-year-old man was shot to death on Monday allegedly by a group of miscreants at Sonaimuri in Noakhali...