Ten days into the bomb explosion inside Pallabi Police Station, the deputy commissioner (DC) of Mirpur Division Police, along with three other high officials, have been transferred.

“People are no longer afraid of muggers on the streets, they are afraid of police. People are afraid of being framed for carrying yaba or cannabis as police insert those into their pockets.”

Hindu community leaders yesterday requested all of its members to refrain from arranging any mass gathering like procession and rally on the occasion of Janmashtami, the celebration of Sri Krishna’s birth.

In the middle of March, when Covid-19 started sweeping across the nation, Mithun Raksam, a poet and publisher from the Garo community, got a heart-breaking phone call from an acquaintance.

The government is going to form a special fund, “Bangladesh Delta Fund”, for implementing its long-term integrated master plan, “Delta Plan 2100”, to harness the huge potentials of Bangladesh through water resource management, ensuring food and water security and tackling disasters.

A Dhaka court has placed two members of a human trafficking gang on a seven-day remand each in a case filed over the trafficking of 26 Bangladeshis who were killed in Libya on May 28.

Fourteen Bangladeshi Tabligh Jamaat members returned home last night after languishing in an Indian jail for 40 days.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) yesterday conducted the first day of a combing operation to destroy mosquito breeding grounds in order to check the spread of Aedes mosquito.

The Supreme Court’s chamber bench will continue conducting virtual judicial functions for three days virtually till further notice, to contain ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

Incidents of torture, custodial death and extra-judicial killings continued and no visible progress happened although the UN Committee against Torture reviewed Bangladesh’s report to this end a year ago, Human Rights Forum Bangladesh said yesterday.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) finds Aedes mosquito larvae in 87 houses and establishments during the first day of a combing operation to destroy breeding grounds of the mosquitoes.

Miscreants stabbed a journalist in front of local press club in Rajshahi’s Mohonpur upazila on Thursday evening, reportedly for writing about an unauthorised market.

Police on Thursday arrested a teenage boy on charge of killing his friend in Khulshi area of Chattogram city.

Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Limited yesterday launched a new drug in the country designed to improve blood sugar control in adults with type-2 diabetes.

Md Abdul Hamid Khan (44) from Fulbaria in Mymensingh was detained in Mymensingh jail since March 4 in a case filed under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act.

Brac has announced to assist 50,000 severely flood affected families with Tk 2,000 as cash assistance for each family.

The birth anniversary of Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib will be observed today.

On July 30, Ashikur Rahman Zubayer received a letter from Guinness World Record at his house on Masjid Bari Road in Jhalakati. Eight months ago, Ashikur had submitted his world record attempt entry to the organisation under football freestyle world records category.

Within three years of the completion of several conservation and development projects, the Somapura Mahavihara has started to lose its shine.

When I stepped into the court on that first day, the elite team of basketball players was already there. I scanned the faces. Most were unfamiliar but my eyes stopped at one. I had seen this face before. It was Sheikh Kamal, and I was one of two schoolboys selected into the same team as him!