Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) organised its largest debate tournament titled “IUB Ascension 2019” on December 12-15 at the university’s campus in the capital’s Bashundhara, said a press release.

In another regrettable day on the roads, five people were killed in separate accidents across four districts in the last two days, report our correspondents. In addition, a man lost his right leg after being a hit by a truck at Joypurhat.

The High Court yesterday asked the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs to submit a report on steps taken by the government for rehabilitation of homeless children across the country, within 40 days.

As China wants to make major investments in Bangladesh, legal harmonisation and multimodal connectivity between the two friendly nations are imperative, said officials and researchers from China and Bangladesh yesterday.

Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) arrested three persons of a gang that cheated at least 55 youths with fake appointment letters of National Board of Revenue (NBR), Chattogram Custom House, Bangladesh Army and Chattogram Port. Members of the gang took bribes of Tk 8-26 lakh from each person for these jobs.

The Department of Environment (DoE) in a drive yesterday fined four brick kilns Tk 33 lakh, demolished three of those and sent owner and manager of two to jail for damaging the environment and operating business without any clearance.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says no freedom fighter will be there in the list of Razakars as the recently disclosed list is no way that of the collaborators of Pakistani occupation forces.

The High Court grants bail to former chief engineer of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) Saidur Rahman in a case filed over forgery in the design of Banani’s FR Tower that was ravaged by a deadly fire in March this year.

The Election Commission is to announce the schedules for elections to two Dhaka city corporations on December 22.

Amid countrywide outrage, Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque says the names of freedom fighters and members of pro-liberation organisations will be dropped from the list of Razakars.

The High Court has stayed the effectiveness of a gazette notification issued by Bangladesh Bar Council permitting Md Zumman Siddique, son of a High Court judge, to practice law in the High Court even though Zumman could not qualify the enrollment examination.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has instructed the authorities concerned to publish a fresh list of Razakars immediately after scrutinizing the names and making necessary corrections.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) to stop trespassing, smuggling of drugs and other goods, and human trafficking by performing their duties properly.

The High Court wants to know what steps the government have taken for rehabilitation of all street children across the country.

Two security guards of the 11-storey building at Banani where Chinese national Jianhui Gao was found buried has been arrested and said they killed him to loot his money.

Bangladesh Chhatra League, the pro Awami League student body, relieves 32 leaders of its central executive committee.

A rickshaw-puller killed a fellow worker -- hitting him in the head with a brick -- following a row in Narayanganj’s Fatullah area early yesterday.

Tarapur Tea Garden in Sylhet witnessed mass killings by Pakistani occupation army on April 18, 1971, during which 39 tea worker families were affected.

Ganosamhati Andolon’s Chief Coordinator Zonayed Saki yesterday said the amended citizenship legislation of India, slammed for being “anti-Muslim”, will put the country’s secular identity at risk and “the poison of communalism” will spread to other parts of the world.

Evaly, an e-commerce based marketplace, celebrated Victory Day as well as its first anniversary with a slogan “Victory is ours, let’s move forward!”, says a press release.