Senior government officials at a discussion yesterday urged all public servants to be transparent when it comes to sharing information with people. This, the speakers said, will help to ensure an open flow of information.

Rab arrested four youths in the capital’s Mohammadpur on Friday night in connection with an attack on journalist Mostafizur Rahman Sumon during February 1 city elections.

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Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud yesterday reiterated that there is no way of freeing BNP chief Khaleda Zia through movements or street campaigns. The only way to get her released from jail would be the legal way, he added.

Members of Dhaka University Central Students Union (Ducsu) yesterday opposed unified admission tests at all public universities, saying that it would hamper “distinctiveness and tradition” of DU entry test.

At least 200 shanties were gutted as a massive fire tore through two slums in the capital’s Banani T&T area early yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home yesterday morning from Milan concluding her four-day official visit to Italy at the invitation of her Italian counterpart Giuseppe Conte.

Police arrested three persons with 12,000 yaba pills in Lohagara upazila of Chattogram yesterday.

After an exhausting month of trade fair and city polls, the book fair got off to a slow start on February 2. But as the first weekend of the month rolled around, city dwellers thronged the fair, re-energised and ready to indulge in literature.

Today is the second death anniversary of Sultan Ara Khan, wife of Shafiul Alam Khan, a retired employee of Karnaphuli Paper Mills Ltd in Chattogram. She died at a Dhaka hospital on February 9, 2018.

Four men were arrested from the city’s Mohammadpur area yesterday, in connection with an attack on Mostafizur Rahman Sumon, a crime reporter at online news portal Agami News, on the day of Dhaka City Corporation elections (February 1).

At least 200 shanties have been damaged when a fire tore through two slums in the capital's Banani T&T area.

Plans to set up a national judicial academy at Shibchar upazila in Madaripur is underway, Law Minister Anisul Huq said yesterday.

Finding errors in everything has turned into a bad habit of BNP, said Awami League Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud yesterday.

Rab in separate drives early yesterday arrested five alleged drug peddlers in possession of Phensedyl and locally brewed alcohol in Kishoreganj and Mymensingh.

Asha Akhtar Akhi, a resident of Kaliakair upazila of Gazipur, burned her esophagus after drinking a toilet bowl cleaner a year ago. After rushing her from one hospital to another, Akhi’s family got her admitted to Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib Memorial KPJ Specialized Hospital in Gazipur.

A student of Dhaka University (DU) died of cardiac arrest at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) yesterday morning.

Newly-appointed Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla plans to visit Dhaka to prepare grounds for India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bangladesh in March.

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam has urged European policymakers to ensure fair prices for apparel sourced from Bangladesh, to incentivise the ongoing reform initiatives in the country’s RMG industry.

As the newly-elected mayors of both Dhaka city corporations will have to wait for more than three months to take over duties, seniormost panel mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) will perform duties as mayor of the DNCC in the interim.