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.

BNP leader Abdullah Al Noman yesterday complained to the returning officer that police and Awami League activists are barring BNP supporters from campaigning ahead of March 29 Chattogram City Corporation election.

Awami League (AL) mayoral candidate for Chattogram City Corporation polls Rezaul Karim Chowdhury yesterday conducted campaign at different wards of the port city, urging citizens to vote for him.

Although somewhat overshadowed by the candidates of Awami League and BNP, five other mayoral aspirants in Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) polls have been conducting their election campaigns in the port city at full strength.

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.

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.

Police recovered the decomposed body of an unidentified girl, in her early twenties, wrapped inside a suitcase from a highway bus’ luggage compartment in Nabinagar on Saturday night.

Fearing the spread of coronavirus, students of Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (Cuet) are leaving campus and dormitories, despite assurance from authorities of “taking preparations” against it.

With Awami League and BNP both nominating candidates of relatively solid repute at the cost of public office experience for the mayoral post of Chattogram City Corporation (CCC), residents of the port city are cautiously optimistic of a well-fought contest.