A man pours oil in a bottle after extracting it from mustard seeds. The vendor from Thakurgaon has been running this small business in the city for over a year.

Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque yesterday asked doctors and others concerned to discharge their duties with utmost sincerity and honesty for the welfare of people.

Robbers beat an elderly woman to death while looting her house at Navy-gate area in Khulna city yesterday morning.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to inaugurate the countdown to Mujib Borsho -- celebrating the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman -- on January 10.

Police arrested three persons including two footballers from Ghana with 7,500 yaba pills in Chattogram’sBakalia and Dhaka’s Basundhara yesterday. The arrestees are Masud(24),Frank (27), and Richard (28), said police. BakaliaPolice Station Officer-in-Charge Nezam Uddin said Frank and Richard are playing in local premier league in Bangladesh. Bakalia police detained themwith a bagin Shah Amanat Bridge area around 3:30am while they were returning from Cox’s Bazar by a bus, said the OC, adding that they found 7,500 yaba pills in it. During primary interrogation, the duo told investigators that a man named Masudasked them to carry the bag, full of yaba, from Cox’s Bazar to him in Dhaka. “Based on the confession, police later arrested Masudin the capital’s Basundhara and took him to Chattogram,” said the OC. Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) (South) Shah Md Abdur Rauf said police are verifying their visas. A case was lodged in this connection.

Speakers at a roundtable yesterday urged the government to include transgender people into the mainstream to ensure their rights, as this community lags far behind others.

Airport Armed Police Battalion (APBn) yesterday arrested three cleaners of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport with 20 gold bars weighing around 2.32 kilogrammes.

Wetlands in the capital city declined to 4.38 percent from 14.25 percent in the last 20 years due to unplanned urbanisation, a new study finds.

A 12-year-old was killed and his parents were injured after a passenger bus ran over their motorcycle at Bhatkura area in Tangail Sadar upazila yesterday.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader categorically says Bangladesh Chhatra League does not feel any need of those involved in various heinous activities like Buet student Abrar murder.

BNP’s mayoral candidate Ishraque Hossain files a written complaint with returning officer alleging that his supporters and councillor contestants were being threatened to stay aside from the electoral race.

Al Nahian Khan Joy and Lekhak Bhattacharjee have been made president and general secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League respectively.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stresses the need for building Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) with the right values and ideals so that the country may get its future leaders from the organisation.

Anwar Hossain Manju and Sheikh Shahidul Islam are re-elected chairman and general secretary respectively of Jatiya Party (Manju) for next three years at the party’s triennial council at capital’s Institution of Diploma Engineers, Bangladesh.

Journalists in Tangail demonstrated in Bhuapur upazila yesterday, protesting an incident at Govindasi area where four local journalists were attacked by gamblers.

“Overcrowded” will likely be an understatement for the Narayanganj District Jail, which is currently holding inmates six times its capacity.

Former lawmaker of Awami League from reserved seat, Advocate Fazilatun Nasa Bappy, was laid to eternal rest at the Mirpur Martyred Intellectuals’ Graveyard on Thursday evening.

A total of 22 accidents occurred in 2019 in around 500km area of the Dhaka-Chattogram-Sylhet section of Bangladesh Railway’s East Zone.

Rab yesterday arrested a man with 992 bottles of phensedyl from the capital’s Uttara. The arrestee is Md Sabbir (23).

Cumilla Medical College Hospital is unable to provide necessary medical services to patients due to a lack of manpower and equipment, causing sufferings to low-income people who largely depend on this public hospital.