The country’s police force has largely become people-friendly now, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says.

Returning Officer of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has asked the officer-in-charge of Darussalam Police Station to take legal action over the attack on BNP mayoral aspirant Tabith Awal in Gabtoli area.

Two people, including a local Jubo League leader, were arrested today in a case filed over the rape of a madrasa student in Sadar upazila of Narayanganj.

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud says BNP has been enjoying extra-advantage in the campaign for the upcoming mayoral elections, as law did not bar their top leaders to seek votes unlike those of the ruling Awami League.

High Court has rejected a petition filed by Ayesha Siddika Minni seeking cancellation of the trial proceedings in a case filed against her over the murder of her husband Rifat Sharif.

BNP officially demands cancellation of Electronic Voting Machine use in the upcoming Dhaka north and south city corporation elections.

Amid fear of the breakout of a new SARS-like virus in China, the authorities of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka begin screening process of passengers coming from the country.

Thirteen-year-old Aronno, son of a police sub-inspector, has been missing for the last four days after he went out of his Bashabo residence.

Awami League lawmaker from Jashore-6 and former State Minister for Public Administration Ismat Ara Sadique passes away at a hospital in Dhaka.

Police recover the body of a nine-year-old girl from her Dakshin Khan residence in Dhaka.

A Dhaka court takes cognisance of the charges against 25 students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet), accused in the Abrar Fahad murder case.

A suspected drug peddler is killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion in Dhaka’s Khilkhet area.

A bill was placed in parliament yesterday, aimed at offering 49 percent shares of the state-owned Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) to the share market, and modernising the transport sector of the country.

A cattle trader was killed after a “Nasiman” (locally-made battery-run three-wheeler) carrying him plunged into a roadside ditch in Baliadangi of Thakurgaon on Sunday.

Cumilla University teacher Md Ali Rezwan Talukder, head of English department, has been relieved from all academic activities of evening master’s course, after a female student of the programme accused him of sexual harassment.

The 51st death anniversary of Shaheed Asad was observed in Barishal city yesterday. Marking the day, district unit of Shaheed Asad Parishad organised a programme in front of Ashwini Kumar Hall.

The High Court yesterday asked the Department of Environment to shut 231 factories set up along the Buriganga River without environmental clearance.

ER Khan, managing director of Phoenix Insurance, passed away at the capital’s United Hospital yesterday around 11am, said a press release of the company.

Women candidates for elections to the reserved ward councillor posts of two Dhaka city corporations don’t just want to be “ornamental councillors”; they want to make the city safer for women and have demanded a balance of power between them and their male counterparts so that they can serve people properly.

An international conference on “Revisiting International Relations: Critical Reflections on 100 Years” concluded yesterday at Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban Auditorium of Dhaka University.