A two-day conference on cyber security began at Daffodil International University (DIU) on its permanent campus in Ashulia of Savar yesterday.

The Model United Nations Club of Asian University for Women (AUW) in Chattogram concluded its sixth MUN conference yesterday.

Police arrested two employees of a drug rehabilitation centre in Savar yesterday over the death of a patient.

Last week, a group of people were seen scouting the beaches of Saint Martin’s island with a large net in hand. They were capturing dogs, and strangling them to death one by one, using a metal contraption.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-7) in a drive yesterday seized a tanker truck carrying 9,000 litres of stolen furnace oil and arrested two persons from port city’s Panchliash area.

A Titumir College student is found dead at his rented house in Dhaka’s South Kamalapur area, soon after he posted what appeared to be a suicide note on his Facebook account.

Police recovered a note which they suspect was written by the husband of the woman who was murdered, along with her two children, in the capital’s Dakshinkhan area.

The 14-day quarantine for the 312 Wuhan-returnee Bangladeshis at Ashkona Hajj Camp ends.

At least four people are killed and 10 others injured in separate road accidents on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Sreepur upazila and Gazipur city.

Mymensingh Divisional Commissioner Khondoker Mustafizur Rahman is injured in a road accident in Gazipur.

Amid a large contingent of police, thousands of BNP leaders and activists are staging a sit-in in front of their Nayapaltan central office, demanding the release of party Chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail.

Two-day international conference titled “Postcolonial Perspectives: Language, Literature and Culture and the Global South” began at Daffodil International University (DIU) in its 71 Milonayoton yesterday, says a press release.

A book written by a justice on the country’s Liberation War is a matter of pride, said Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain.

Seven aspirants yesterday collected BNP’s nomination forms to contest the upcoming by-polls to three constituencies.

A Rajshahi University teacher filed an attempted murder case on Thursday night against his colleague after the latter allegedly assaulted him.

A patient of a drug rehabilitation centre in Savar died after he had been tortured there, alleged the victim’s family.

Bangladesh High Commission in London has started the formal registration of Bangladeshi expatriates in the UK and Ireland to provide them with the national identity (NID) cards.

Saudi Arabia sent back another 102 Bangladeshi migrant workers on Thursday night amid a deportation spree.

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud yesterday stressed the need for bringing discipline in the media as the country saw an exponential growth in the sector in last 10 years.

Releasing BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on parole is a matter of the court, said Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday.