Mobile courts yesterday fined at least 19 stores, including pharmacies, in Dhaka city, Savar, Narayanganj and Manikganj for selling products such as surgical masks, hand sanitiser and different medicines at higher prices than usual.

Elections to Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) were held exactly a year ago with contesting panels pledging to take initiatives to curb accommodation crisis at the dormitories and to improve the food quality of dorm canteens.

Police yesterday arrested one person in a case filed over sexually harassment of a female student of Jagannath University (JnU) inside a running bus at Taltola Bus Stand area in the capital’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar on March 8.

Speakers at a discussion yesterday said the government needs to recognise intermediaries, locally known as “dalal”, by bringing changes to laws to hold them accountable for malpractices in the country’s labour migration sector.

The two-day annual election to the 14-member executive committee, including president and secretary, of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) will begin today.

Department of Environment in Chattogram city yesterday fined Finlay Properties Limited Tk 17 lakh and suspended clearance of their site in Panchlaish, for cutting 17,000 square feet of hills illegally yesterday.

The High Court yesterday rejected a bail petition by suspended director of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Khandaker Enamul Basir in a case filed over a transaction of Tk 40 lakh as bribe.

National Debate Federation Bangladesh (NDF BD) is organising the “13th NDF BD National Debate Festival 2020” on March 27-28 at North South University in the capital’s Bashundhara R/A.

The body of a male newborn is recovered from a dustbin in Old Dhaka’s Kaltabazar area.

The hand of Fahima Begum, a college teacher, has been reattached in a six-hour long surgery after it was severed in a road accident in Gopalganj.

A police inspector in Manikganj has been closed after an allegation of sexually harassing a woman was brought against him.

Mobile courts fine at least 19 stores, including pharmacies, in Dhaka city, Savar, Narayanganj and Manikganj for selling products such as surgical masks, hand sanitisers and different medicines at prices higher than usual.

The High Court again refuses to grant bail to Sohel Rana, owner of the Rana Plaza -- which collapsed leaving at least 1,135 people in April, 2013 -- in a corruption case filed on charge of committing irregularities in constructing the building.

The High Court rejects a bail petition of GK Shamim’s four bodyguards, a top government-listed contractor, in a money laundering case.

The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education has asked all offices and educational institutions under its jurisdiction and people across the country to remain cautious to contain the spread of coronavirus.

A Dhaka court has granted bail to former minister Nazmul Huda’s wife Sigma Huda and their two daughters -- Antara Selima Huda and Srabanti Amina Huda -- in two graft cases.

A teacher’s left hand has been severed and at least 10 students of Dhaka’s Willes Little Flower School and College have been injured when a bus on a study tour collided with a parked truck in Gopalganj.

The High Court rejects the bail of suspended director of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Khandaker Enamul Basir in a case filed over a transaction of Tk 40 lakh as bribe.

Banglalink has declared the IEDCR hotline numbers toll-free for its users to facilitate preventive measures against the spread of coronavirus in the country, a press release says.

Five passengers of an auto rickshaw-van were killed and two injured after a roadside tree that was being chopped down fell on them in Mathartek area of Dhaka’s Dhamrai upazila yesterday.