The High Court today cleared the way for Bangladesh Public Service Commission (PSC) to hold the 41st BCS preliminary examination on March 19 following the health guidelines.

The government today approved a Tk 4,123 crore project for constructing 30,000 homes for insolvent valiant freedom fighters and family members of the martyred in a bid to uplift their socioeconomic condition.

AZM Anas, economic editor of The Financial Express, died of cardiac arrest this morning. He was 45.

All people will have to enter the Ekushey Boi Mela grounds in Dhaka following health guidelines due to the Covid-19 situation, police said today.

Police today barred activists of left-leaning student bodies, who were going to lay siege to the law ministry to press home their demands of scrapping the Digital Security Act.

Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) authorities today formed a three-member medical board for medical check-up of cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore.

The High Court today exonerated Grameen Telecom Chairman and Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus and its Managing Director Md Ashraful Hasan from personal appearance before the court in connection with a contempt of court rule.

A man was killed when police opened fire during a clash with fishermen in Meghna river of Matlab North upazila of Chandpur.

Sheikh Mohammad Fayiz Ullah Shipon has been nominated as the Jatiya Party candidate to contest Lakshmipur-2 by-election.

Three siblings were killed as a fire broke out at their house in Chakaria upazila of Cox’s Bazar in the early hours of today.

Former UN secretary-general Ban-ki Moon has said Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was a champion of human rights not only within Bangladesh but across the globe.

A Dhaka court will decide on April 1 whether to accept the charges brought against 10 people, including Khandaker Mohtesam Hossain Babar, brother of former minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, in the Tk 2,000 crore money laundering case.

A sedition case was filed against BNP leader Mizanur Rahman Minu, also an adviser to BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, and four other party leaders today.

Amid fears of a fresh wave of Covid-19, the government has vowed to take a tougher position to fight transmissions.

Five dignitaries are set to arrive for the celebrations – Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, Sri Lanka Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, Nepalese President Bidya Devi Bhandari, Bhutanese Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) today filed cases against three organisations for having stagnant water on their premises as it promotes mosquito breeding.

The High Court today ordered the government to immediately stop the functions of Maizea Advance Agro Refinery (MAAR) Limited, a dry starch powder producing company, for the polluting environment at Shappur in Habiganj’s Madhavpur upazila.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today dismissed an appeal challenging the life term sentence of Oishee Rahman, who murdered her parents in 2013.

The water resources secretary-level meeting in New Delhi tomorrow is expected to discuss the issue of withdrawing water from Feni River for Sabroom town in Tripura.

The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed has requested people to restrict their movement “unless urgent” during the 10-day state programme from March 17 to 26 to mark the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the golden jubilee of independence.