Abdullah had just learnt to crawl. This milestone in the nine-month-old’s life had the entire family elated.

The month-long Amar Ekushey Grantha Mela 2020, the country’s largest book fair commemorating the heroes of language movement, began at Bangla Academy premises and the adjacent Suhrawardy Udyan yesterday, with a record number of 560 organisations participating this year.

Police submitted the charge sheet to a Dhaka court on December 22 last year against two drivers in a case filed over the death of Rajib Hossain, who succumbed to his injuries in April 2018 after getting stuck between two speeding buses. However, the victim’s family was not made aware of the charge sheet’s filing until yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government has given utmost importance to vocational education as the world needs skilled manpower for the upcoming fourth industrial revolution.

Bangladesh is set to hold talks with one of its major labour receiving countries Qatar today and tomorrow with a hope to see rise in hire of Bangladeshi migrant workers by the Gulf country.

It is shameful and puzzling that border killings have increased in recent times, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said yesterday.

Sixty-three students are set to receive gold medals for academic performance at the second convocation of Patuakhali University of Science and Technology (PSTU), to be held on February 5.

At least 15 students were hurt in a clash between students of two departments at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University in Gopalganj yesterday.

Kidney dialysis at the nephrology department of Rangpur Medical College Hospital remained suspended for four days until yesterday as its water treatment plant is not working due to a technical glitch.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday in the parliament said the government is working to increase the number of foreign missions of Bangladesh to 100 from the existing 77 within 2021.

A three-and-half-year-old girl is alleged raped by a teenager in Dhaka’s Bosila area.

After observing a day-long hartal, BNP announces fresh demonstrations in Dhaka city on Tuesday demanding cancellation of the results of elections to Dhaka south and north city corporations.

Abdullah, a nine-month-old, had just learnt to crawl before his life met a tragic end that could have been avoided.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen, in the parliament, says the government is working to increase the number of Bangladeshi missions abroad to 100, from existing 77, within 2021.

Eight of the Bangladeshi returnees from the coronavirus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan, who are quarantined at different hospitals for having a fever, are doing well.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated the month-long Ekushey Book Fair on the Bangla Academy premises in Dhaka.

Information Minister Hasan Mahmud says longer public holidays, BNP’s publicity against electronic voting machines (EVMs) and their participation in city polls “as a form of movement” are the main reasons behind the poor voter turnout in the elections to two Dhaka city corporations.

The High Court directs the public administration secretary to deploy five executive magistrates within a month under the Department of Environment (DoE), to take necessary action against air and environment pollution across the country.

“This year the number of border killing has increased. India is assuring repeatedly that it won’t happen. Yet it is happening,” he told reporters at a press conference at the foreign ministry today.

Police press charges against two bus drivers in a case over the death of Rajib Hossain, a third-year student of Titumir College.