Officials of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate seized two luxury cars in the port city yesterday.

The assistant director (AD) of Bogura regional passport office went on a leave after Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed a case against him for issuing passport to an Indian national.

Multinational consumer product company Unilever, and telecom operators Robi, Grameenphone and Banglalink yesterday asked employees to stay at home and work online where possible, as a preventive measure against coronavirus.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) yesterday underscored the need for ensuring transparency in financing and financial transactions to uphold the ideology of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

The father and an uncle of a five-year-old, who was brutally killed in Sunamganj’s Derai upazila on October 14 last year, were sentenced to death in the murder case.

All private banks of the country have taken a special programme marking the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

A businessman was killed during a scuffle with his friend at the bar of a hotel in the capital’s Banani area on March 11, police said yesterday.

The nation is set to celebrate the inauguration of Mujib Borsho today, with programmes revised in light of the recent coronavirus cases.

The government will brief diplomats stationed in Dhaka at 6:00pm today at State Guesthouse Padma on the coronavirus issue.

The Supreme Court has stayed a High Court verdict that scrapped the convictions and jail sentences handed down by the executive magistrate-run mobile courts to juveniles across the country.

The High Court has sought all relevant documents regarding the conviction and jail sentence of Kurigram journalist Ariful Islam, the case against him, bail order and formation of task force and mobile court.

Detectives press charges against the lone accused, Majnu, in a case filed over the rape of a Dhaka University student in the capital’s Kurmitola area on January 6.

General students of Jagannath University (JnU) are boycotting classes and examinations for an indefinite period, in a bid to resist the coronavirus spread.

Authorities of seven top public universities have suspended all academic activities aiming to prevent the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19).

Police today claimed that a mugger was killed in a gunfight with members of Detective Branch of police in Dhaka’s Khilgaon area early today.

The Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital opens a flu corner to ensure special care of people coming to hospital with flu.

Three people were killed and 15 others injured after a truck hit a bus and pushed it into a roadside ditch early yesterday.

A child died from an “unknown disease” and around 40 people were affected in a span of three days in a small neighbourhood of Bandarban, said locals.

To work, a section of domestic helps only choose those houses where elderly people or children mostly live.

A Dhaka court yesterday sent a 65-year-old man to jail on charge of raping a 35-year-old woman in Savar on Saturday.