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JU rape attempt: Proctor's office, registrar's building locked down

Dhaka, May 17 -- Protesting students have locked the registrar's building at Jahangirnagar University, demanding the arrest of the person involved in the attempted rape and murder of a female student ... Read More


Chhatra League posters reappear on Chittagong University walls

Dhaka, May 17 -- Posters for the Bangladesh Chhatra League, the banned student wing of the Awami League, have once again appeared on different walls at Chittagong University. The posters were pasted ... Read More


9-month-old dies with measles symptoms in Sherpur

Dhaka, May 17 -- A 9-month-old child with measles symptoms has died in Sherpur. The infant died while undergoing treatment at the 250-bed Sherpur District Sadar Hospital on Saturday afternoon, accord... Read More


68 rescued as massive blaze breaks out on train bound for New Delhi

Dhaka, May 17 -- A massive fire has broken out on the Rajdhani Express, bound from India's Thiruvananthapuram to the capital New Delhi, in Madhya Pradesh's Ratlam, reports Indian broadcaster NDTV. Th... Read More


Three arrested after Jamaat activists sued over Shah Ali shrine attack in Mirpur

Dhaka, May 16 -- Police have arrested three suspects after a devotee filed a case against at least 100 members of Jamaat-e-Islami and its affiliate organisations over the attack on the Shah Ali Baghda... Read More


JU students sit in through night demanding proctor's resignation over 'rape attempt'

Dhaka, May 16 -- Jahangirnagar University has remained tense as students extended their overnight sit-in, demanding the resignation of the proctor and proctorial body over alleged security failures fo... Read More


Former health state minister, ACME Laboratories MD Mizanur Rahman Sinha dies at 83

Dhaka, May 16 -- Mizanur Rahman Sinha, managing director of ACME Laboratories Limited and a former state minister for health, has died in Singapore while undergoing treatment. He was 83. He passed aw... Read More


Attack on Shah Ali shrine part of pattern seen under Yunus government: TIB

Dhaka, May 16 -- The Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has condemned the attack on the Shah Ali Baghdadi shrine in Dhaka's Mirpur, describing it as a continuation of the violence that began ... Read More


Sudan PM pays courtesy call on Bangladesh president in London

Dhaka, May 16 -- Sudanese Prime Minister Kamil Idris has paid a courtesy call on President Mohammed Shahabuddin in the UK. The meeting took place on Saturday morning [local time] at a London hotel, s... Read More


Foreign ministry ex-DG Sabbir detained while 'infiltrating' through Patgram border

Dhaka, May 16 -- Police have detained former director general of the foreign ministry Sabbir Bin Shams, while "illegally" entering the country through the Patgram Upazila border in Lalmonirhat. Polic... Read More