Advocate Gazi Saidul Haque, founder president and current adviser of Senior Citizens Welfare Organization located at Sector-4, Uttara, passed away on January 30 at United Hospital, Dhaka.

Prof Maulana Muhammad Salahuddin, khatib of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque, died at a city hospital yesterday afternoon. He was 78.

His love for food had just begun turning his life around. After marrying Farhana Islam four months ago, Sifat Rabby Siam and his wife began a new adventure together -- traveling around and reviewing restaurant food from all over the country.

Chirata or Swertia chirayita (Gentianaceae) is a popular medicinal herb, native to regions of temperate Himalayas. The shrubs can be two-three feet long.

The government yesterday announced names of 24 eminent citizens this year for the Ekushey Padak -- the country’s second highest civilian award after Swadhinata Padak -- for contributions in their respective fields.

A ruling party lawmaker, who was accused of occupying the land of a martyred intellectual’s family in Barishal around three weeks ago, is now allegedly trying to evict around a dozen minority families from their ancestral land.

As soon as Samad and I reached the university (February 21), students asked us: “What have you decided?” We said you can take a decision independently.

The deployment of additional United States troops in Eastern Europe is escalating tensions in the region, the Kremlin said yesterday, after Washington said it would send 3,000 extra troops to Poland and Romania.

The government could not control rice price although it had the highest ever rice stock and record production of Aush, Aman and Boro varieties, said Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque.

There is no possibility of expansion of the US sanctions against Rab either in the US or elsewhere, said State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam yesterday.

Ankara yesterday accused Greece of allowing 12 migrants to die in the winter cold after stripping them of their clothes and then pushing them back across the Turkish border.

Three people were killed as a private car rammed into the wheels of a moving train at a level crossing in Dinajpur’s Birampur upazila yesterday morning.

A faction of the country’s petrol pump owners yesterday threatened to go on strike from February 17 across the country if the government does not increase their commission.

A Dhaka tribunal yesterday accepted charges against two people, including “Shishu Bokta” Rafiqul Islam Madani, in a case filed under the Digital Security Case.

A 15-year-old girl was gang-raped in a village of Thakurgaon Sadar early Tuesday, said police.

A Bailey bridge collapsed along with a rice-laden truck in Bandarban’s Rowangchhari upazila around 2:00pm yesterday, killing the driver on the spot.

The holy Shab-e-Meraj will be observed in the country on the night of February 28.

Bangladesh Satellite Company Ltd (BSCL) yesterday signed a cooperation contract with Russian company Glavkosmos for launching Bangabandhu Satellite-2 within December next year.

Myanmar’s shadow government, set up after last year’s military coup, said it accepts the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to hear allegations that the country committed genocide against its Rohingya minority.

Munira Akter, mother of Rajshahi University student Mahmud Habib Himel, could not shed any tears seeing the coffin of her only son, but her blank eyes made everyone around her choke up.