The three-day long virtual graduation ceremony of Scholastica, one of the leading English-medium schools of the country, ended yesterday.

At least 26 persons were injured in a clash between police and activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) in Mymensingh city’s Char Kalibari area yesterday afternoon.

The High Court in full text of a verdict released on Wednesday blasted Etihad Airways for harassing two Bangladesh-born women at Abu Dhabi International Airport in June 2011.

Authorities of National University have decided to promote 3,16,676 first-year students of academic session 2019-2020 to the second year.

Recruiting agencies yesterday urged the government to take immediate step to vaccinate migrant workers with Covid-19 vaccine on a priority basis, demanding at least 1,00,000 doses to mitigate a rising crisis.

The High Court yesterday granted ad-interim bail to BNP leader Nipun Roy Chowdhury in two arson and subversion cases, clearing the way of her walk out of jail.

A racket led by an IT officer of Dutch Bangla Bank Limited have allegedly embezzled Tk 2.57 crore by changing the electronic journal of the bank's ATM.

Hefajat-e-Islam’s former secretary general Mamunul Haque among 43 people has been sued for misappropriating Tk 20 crore.

Strong criticism of corruption and mismanagement in different ministries continued in parliament yesterday, as lawmakers from Jatiya Party and BNP came down heavily on the health minister and finance minister for their failure to curb corruption and stop money laundering.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government is going to enact a law to eliminate job uncertainty of journalists in both print and electronic media.

For the second consecutive day, a joint team of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) and Dhaka district administration demolished illegal structures in Buriganga’s second channel yesterday.

The open market sale (OMS) service of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) has brought much relief to the low- and lower-middle income groups in the port city recently, as prices of daily essentials, especially soybean oil, have shot up in retail market.

The cost of living in Dhaka city went up by 6.8 per cent in 2020 due to the hike in prices of commodities and services amid the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report of the Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB).

Thousands of students of Rajshahi University (RU), who were expecting to sit for their final examinations on university campus, are in uncertainty due to the lockdown imposed in Rajshahi.

Former Jatiya Party lawmaker MA Hannan, who was facing trial for allegedly committing crimes during the Liberation War, died of cancer yesterday. He was 86.

Even amid the pandemic, hundreds of conservancy workers in port city take to the streets to clean up the waste produced in the day. However, they continue to collect the waste without using any safety equipment, putting them at risk of being infected by various diseases.

Police on Monday arrested a youth on charge of assaulting and verbally abusing a girl on a footbridge in Dhaka’s Shanir Akhra area on February 14.

A woman died after the gas cylinder of a truck exploded in Dhaka’s Hazaribagh Beribandh area yesterday. The deceased Salma Begum (30), a labourer, was on the truck at the time.

The High Court yesterday granted ad-interim bail to former Barishal City Corporation mayor Ahsan Habib Kamal, who was sentenced to seven years imprisonment in a corruption case, clearing the way for him to walk out of jail.

The High Court yesterday stayed the process of recruitment of six teachers for Jahangirnagar University’s philosophy department till June 20.