A taskforce aiming to curb road crashes and bring discipline in road transport sector, led by Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, sat for its third meeting yesterday after a six-month hiatus.

Freedom fighter MG Mohiuddin Ahmed, former deputy general manager of Bangladesh Krishi Bank, has passed away. He was 72.

Marina Yasmin Chowdhury, sponsor director of Prime Bank and vice-chairperson of East Coast Group, breathed her last on Saturday.

Mehjabin Islam Moon killed her parents and sister in Dhaka’s Kadamtali area as she was forced into “anti-social activities”, police said yesterday, quoting her.

Prof Dr Mamun Al Mahtab Shwapnil, chairman of Hepatology department at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), and two other doctors were sued for the death of Dr Mohammad Towfiq Enam.

Insufficient allocation and lack of focus in the budget will hinder the hygiene sub-sector, which remains a key priority for Covid-19 and the SDG Goals, speakers at a post-budget press conference said yesterday.

For the second consecutive day, a number of the 137 staffers at Rajshahi University, who were unlawfully recruited by former Vice Chancellor Prof Abdus Sobhan, obstructed campus operations with their demand to allow them to join their posts.

Five Supreme Court lawyers yesterday filed a criminal revision petition with the High Court (HC) challenging the legality of the trial proceedings at the Juvenile Court in Bogura, in connection with a case where an underage boy was accused of murdering his eight-year-old brother.

Migrant workers, who are stuck at home after coming from Kuwait on holiday, yesterday urged the government to immediately inoculate them with Covid-19 vaccine approved by the Gulf country to make way for their return to workplace.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the members of Bangladesh Army to concentrate on attaining the highest professional skills and excellence, keeping pace with the changing world.

A platform of recruiting agencies yesterday urged the government to give an “outline” while inoculating migrant workers with Covid-19 vaccine.

Three persons were arrested yesterday on charge of killing an Assistant Sub-inspector (ASI), Kazi Md Salauddin, of port city’s Chandgaon Police Station, who died after being run over by a microbus carrying alcohol in Chandgaon area on June 11.

Road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said the government is working to introduce metro rail in the port city.

In a tragic accident in Bogura’s Shibganj upazila, a head-on collision between a bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw killed a two-month-old and his grandparents yesterday, reports our Bogura correspondent.

Authorities at Rajshahi University (RU) were forced to suspend a financial committee meeting yesterday, after a number of the 137 staffers who were

Residents of Chattogram city woke up to a bad day yesterday, as incessant rainfall brought back all-too-familiar problems.

From the classic “chin-mask” to hanging them by the wrists and ears, and putting them on the forehead, masks are sometimes everywhere except

Kulsum Zaman, wife of former Awami League lawmaker and first finance secretary late Khandakar Asaduzzaman, passed away yesterday while undergoing treatment at Evercare Hospital in Dhaka. She was 85.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s adviser Kamrul Manir passed away in Rajshahi on Friday.

Md Abdullah Sherdil is an ex-student of Dhaka University’s linguistics department. The father of two young children from Paikgaccha, Khulna was recently diagnosed with blood cancer.