Police have arrested a man accused of raping a 10-year-old girl in Kashiani upazila of Gopalganj.

The number of deaths from measles and measles-like symptoms saw a sharp rise yesterday as health authorities adjusted previously unrecorded deaths, taking the total number of confirmed and suspected measles deaths to 409.

A Netrokona court yesterday ordered a DNA test in the widely-discussed rape case in Madan upazila, where a child became pregnant.

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman yesterday asked the police administration to remain neutral and operate strictly as per the law so that police stations can be trusted by people as reliable support centres in times of need.

Five members of a family, including three children, suffered burn injuries in a suspected gas explosion at a flat in Narayanganj’s Fatullah early yesterday.

The BNP has decided to launch a month-long programme to counter what it says is the opposition’s misleading portrayal of the party as anti-reform, as well as criticism over the government’s handling of the measles outbreak.

The High Court yesterday rejected a bail petition filed by former ISKCON leader Chandan Kumar Dhar, also known as Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari, in a murder case.

The attacks on The Daily Star and Prothom Alo were attacks on independent journalism itself, speakers said at The Daily Star’s 35th anniversary celebration in Barishal yesterday.

National Citizen Party (NCP) spokesperson Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain yesterday demanded that the government immediately publish a clear roadmap for the upcoming local government elections.

Jamaat‑e‑Islami lawmaker Syed Zainul Abedin has urged the government not to merge Social Islami Bank PLC (SIBL) with other troubled lenders and to keep it outside the Bank Resolution Scheme.

This season’s mango harvest in orchards across Rajshahi will begin on May 15.

Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed yesterday said the government would amend laws or enact new ones if necessary to curb mob violence, acknowledging that the existing legal framework is insufficient to fully address “mob culture”.

A total of 27 cattle markets will be set up in the capital ahead of Eid-ul-Azha this year, with 11 under the Dhaka South City Corporation and 16 under the Dhaka North City Corporation, according to officials of the two city corporations.

The just-concluded local elections in Britain have shaken the UK’s political landscape, weakening the ruling Labour Party, fuelling the rise of the right-wing Reform UK,

A writ petition was filed with the High Court yesterday seeking Tk 2 crore in compensation for each family of the 352 children who died from measles and measles-like symptoms across the country.

The trial of former DSCC mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh, former minister Jahangir Kabir Nanak, and 26 others is set to begin on June 8 in a crimes against humanity case over the killing of nine people in Mohammadpur during the July uprising.

Dhaka South City Corporation yesterday launched its first pre-monsoon Aedes mosquito larvae survey under its own management to prevent mosquito-borne diseases, including dengue and chikungunya, in the capital.

Several groups, some claiming links to the ruling party, have allegedly been involved in grabbing shops and slum houses, as well as extortion and intimidation, in the Kalyanpur Porabosti slum area of Dhaka.

The Kangsha River in Mymensingh’s Dhobaura upazila, once a key lifeline for local people, has long been gasping for survival.

Three children among those buried after the Kapasia killings