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.

A motorcyclist physically assaulted a traffic sergeant leaving him with fractured bones at Horse Square checkpoint in Rajshahi city today.

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

Criminal Investigation Department arrested the driver of Ajmeri Glory Paribahan that hit and ran over a couple in Dhaka’s Airport area yesterday.

Minoti Kundu -- mother of Ajoy Kumar Kundu, chief operating officer of Mediacom Ltd. -- has passed away on Sunday. She had suffered from a brain hemorrhage and was admitted to Square Hospital. She was 76.

Zahidul Islam, a second year BBA student of Dhaka University’s Management Department, is suffering from liver cirrhosis disease.

If one visits KB Aman Road’s Phooltola area in the port city, they may come across a garbage dump full of polythene bags. However, this very “dump” is in fact part of the Chaktai canal.

The prosecution yesterday completed arguments and sought capital punishment for four Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) activists in Prof Humayun Azad murder case.

Police arrested a suspended sub-inspector of Armed Police Battalion in Sylhet and four others while selling yaba in Subidbazar area of Sylhet city yesterday afternoon.

Two persons have been arrested in the last two days over the killing of two people during election campaigns in Sirajganj and Chattogram.

In the 19th century, the famous Majumdar family of Sylhet dug up a large pond to fulfil local people’s need for water in greater Amberkhana area in Sylhet city.

Bureaucrats should not “exceed their limit” and act as politicians, Prof Dr Syed Modasser Ali, a former adviser to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, said yesterday.

Five people including two cops were killed in three separate motorcycle accidents yesterday, indicating the sharp rise in accidents of the two wheeler vehicle across the country.

The queue at Bangladesh National Museum was a little unusual this Friday. Things were getting a bit chaotic too. The issue laid with some who were being refused to enter. Waiting at the back of the line for a long time, they couldn’t believe they were being turned back.

They have started calling it an “infodemic”. The proliferation of fake news about the COVID-19 pandemic has become such a widespread dilemma, it’s only fitting that a such a name be used for it.

A garment worker remains missing after he fell from a trawler in the Shitalakkhya river in Narayanganj today.

A couple was killed after a bus hit their motorcycle in Dhaka airport area this morning.

No one will be allowed to carry out any kind of violence and spoil the atmosphere ahead of the January 27 city corporation election, warned Chattogram Metropolitan Police Commissioner Saleh Mohammed Tanvir yesterday.

Before the January 16 municipal polls, he was blamed for inciting violence. Even his own party -- Awami League -- decided not to nominate him.