A 23-year-old Bangladeshi youth, also a student at Malaysia’s Asia Pacific University (APU), has been missing for a week since he left his home in the capital’s Bashundhara Residential area on January 13.

The High Court yesterday directed Aslam Shikder, a former programme producer of private TV channel ATN Bangla, to surrender before the Nari O Shishu Nirjaton Daman Tribunal-7 of Dhaka in a case filed for raping a dancer in 2018.

Four public engineering universities who had earlier agreed on a cluster admission test system, are divided on the question of where the exam would be held.

Two ruling Awami League lawmakers yesterday demanded that the government take measures to reopen all educational institutions, as the long closure of schools and colleges are hindering students.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Md Atiqul Islam yesterday said they will recover occupied portions of 13 canals from encroachers in 18 extended wards of DNCC.

The election of councillor post in ward-31 (Alkaran) of Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) has been cancelled today.

A man was killed after a pick-up van hit him in Dhaka’s Kamrangirchar Beribandh area this morning.

The Bus Route Rationalisation (BRR) Committee yesterday decided on four sites on the periphery of Dhaka to set up bus terminals to stop inter-district buses from entering the city.

A parliamentary body yesterday finalised three bills to publish the results of the HSC and equivalent examinations by January 28.

Mujibur Rahman Dilu, a freedom fighter and actor, passed away at the capital’s United Hospital early yesterday.

A motorcyclist beat up a traffic sergeant with a piece of wood, fracturing the officer’s bones, at Rajshahi city’s Ghora Chattar checkpoint yesterday.

A Dhaka court yesterday sent two union parishad chairmen of Faridpur to jail after their surrender in a Tk 2,000 crore money laundering case.

Three people were killed and 17 injured in road accidents in two districts in the last two days, according to reports from our correspondents.

The High Court yesterday upheld a lower court order that granted bail to JMI Hospital Requisite Manufacturing Ltd’s Chairman Abdur Razzak in connection with a case filed over supplying fake N95 masks for the use of healthcare professionals.

The fifth phase of the municipality elections will be held on February 28, the Election Commission announced yesterday.

Around one-third of 62 rivers in Barishal division has lost navigability, causing suspension of vessel operation in around 460km of 27 waterways, revealed a survey of Center for Environmental and Geographic Information Services yesterday.

A former director of KDS Group yesterday claimed that his former employer is harassing him and his family, filing a total of 28 false cases with fabricated and manipulated documents.

International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) and Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) on Saturday demanded divisional enquiry into the Police Bureau of Investigation (PIB) team and Cox’s Bazar public prosecutor over negligent handling of Lakingme Chakma’s abduction case.

A Dhaka court yesterday adjourned the hearing on charge framing against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and nine others in Niko graft case till February 1.

With central leaders from both Awami League (AL) and BNP joining electioneering in support of their mayor candidates, campaign for Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) polls has started to gain momentum.