Police yesterday seized a consignment of cannabis brownies and arrested three youths for selling, preparing, and consuming those from the capital’s Mohammadpur.

Three people were killed in separate road accidents across three districts yesterday, report our correspondents.

Two teenage girls were raped in Bandar upazila of Narayanganj on Tuesday, said police.

US-Bangla Airlines is going to resume flights on Dubai-Dhaka route from June 18.

Protesting felling of trees on the Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University campus, people from all strata of life formed a human chain in Tangail town yesterday.

Jatiya Party yesterday finalized its candidates for the by-elections to three parliamentary constituencies -- Sylhet-3, Dhaka-14 and Cumilla-5 -- scheduled to be held on July 14.

Dhaka University (DU) and Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) have failed to make any progress in the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) world university ranking of 2022 published yesterday.

Two members of a transnational human trafficking racket yesterday confessed to a magistrate that they were involved in trafficking young women and girls to India for one year.

Speakers at a post-budget webinar urged the government to publish the gender budget report during the final release of the proposed budget for the fiscal year 2021-2022 and take the necessary initiatives to ensure women empowerment and gender equality by allocating specific budget for women and taking necessary work plans in the development programmes.

A twelve-year-old girl died at hospital after a boundary wall collapsed on her in Dhaka Mirpur area.

After a mild tremor of magnitude 3.8 that jolted Sylhet city on Monday evening, cracks developed cracked on a two-storey academic building of the century-old Raja Girish Chandra (GC) High School.

A Dhaka court yesterday ordered to freeze 170 bank accounts of Md Monir Hossain, known as Golden Monir, and three others in connection with a money laundering case.

BNP yesterday demanded permanent accommodation for slum dwellers.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Atiqul Islam yesterday said they want to install fire hydrants in slums so that its dwellers can respond immediately and minimise losses in case of fire incidents.

Bangladesh has been elected vice president for the upcoming 76th Session of the UN General Assembly from the Asia Pacific Region for a one-year term, beginning from September 2021.

It seems like the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) has plenty of public money to burn.

A fish trader was killed in a road accident on Majkandi-Bhatiapara road in Boalmari upazila of Faridpur yesterday morning.

United Hospital Limited (UHL) has started evening outpatient department (OPD) with 35 consultants, according to a press release by the private hospital.

Bangladesh and Austria signed the Air Services Agreement (ASA) in Vienna on Monday.

Today is the first death anniv-ersary of Shahid Ullah Patwary, a renowned journalist, said a press release.