A four-day workshop for journalists on religious tolerance started at Mymensingh Press Club yesterday.

The qualities and ideologies of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman have to be instilled among children, said Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury.

Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder yesterday said Bangladesh has achieved self-sufficiency in food as the government has implemented massive development programmes to realise that goal.

Local Government Division Additional Secretary Mesbah Uddin has been elected general secretary and Public Security Division Additional Secretary Md Jahangir Alam treasurer of Officers’ Club, Dhaka for 2020-2021, says a press release.

A picnic bus fell into a roadside ditch in Cox’s Bazar early yesterday, injuring all 30 students from different educational institutions, including Dhaka University, reports our local correspondent.

Students at Hathazari Parbati Model High School had quite a shocking revelation yesterday as Upazila Nirbahi Officer Ruhul Amin at an event there declared to seize their smartphones.

Police arrest one person in connection with a case filed over torturing a house help in Dhaka’s Jatrabari area.

Jatiya Oikyafront urges the Election Commission to change its stance of using the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) in the Dhaka north and south city corporation elections scheduled for January 30.

A six-year-old is allegedly raped by a security guard of a residential building in Dhaka’s Shahjahanpur area.

Dhaka North City Corporation mayoral candidate Ahammad Sajedul Huq Rubel has alleged that the Election Commission has “complicated the situation” by not deferring the election date that coincides with Saraswati Puja.

Election Commission defers the Dhaka city elections date to February 1, following increasing pressure from different quarters including the Hindu community and Dhaka university students.

Bangladesh Hindu-Bouddha-Christian Oikya Parishad withdraws its weeklong countrywide demonstration programme over deferral of the date of the city polls.

Three Dhaka University teachers expresses solidarity with the students, who are on hunger strike since Thursday, demanding deferral of Dhaka north and south city corporation elections as January 30 coincides with Saraswati Puja.

Dhaka University students call off their hunger strike after the Election Commission deferred the Dhaka city corporations’ polls date to February 1.

Awami League MP of Bogura -1 constituency Abdul Mannan dies of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Dhaka this morning at the age of 67.

At least six people were injured early yesterday when two launches collided in Meghna river, reportedly due to fog.

Two police constables were arrested on Thursday night for submitting fake freedom fighter certificates when they applied for the job.

Around 70 people, including RMG workers, were sued yesterday over vandalism and beating up staffers of a garment factory.

A female student of Cumilla University has filed a written complaint against a teacher, saying he sexually harassed her and destroyed evidence saved in her cellphone.

Bauls in Tangail formed a human chain in front of the town’s press club yesterday, demanding unconditional release of Baul singer Shariat Sarkar and withdrawal of the “false” case against him.