Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged everyone to shun negative attitudes toward leprosy patients. She instead recommended authorities concerned to take initiatives for their proper treatment.

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday found a Rajshahi man guilty of crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 Liberation War and handed down death penalty to him.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has offered a 10 per cent discount on its ticket for its app users from December 16 to February 15 next year.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Bangladesh government sign agreements for $33.26 million in loan for a project to design the Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) line 5 (Southern route) that will help ease the traffic and pollution burden in Dhaka city.

A Dhaka court summons Rafida Ahmed Bonya, widow of slain writer-blogger Avijit Roy, and five other prosecution witnesses to appear before it for delivering their statements on December 30 in Avijit murder case.

The government will bring Bangladeshi migrant workers under two compulsory insurance schemes of Tk 2 lakh and Tk 5 lakh in a bid to provide financial security to them and their family members.

Unidentified miscreants torch three motorcycles on the High Court Street in Dhaka.

University Grants Commission (UGC) orders closure of evening courses at all public universities as what it said the courses tarnish the educational institutions' image.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir apprehends that the government might change the BSMMU’s medical board report on his party Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s health condition and would submit a different report to the court.

A man is crushed under the wheels of a bus when he was hurriedly getting down of the vehicle after two women passengers brought allegation against him of sexual harassment in Chattogram city.

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 will deliver its verdict today in a case filed against a Rajshahi man for allegedly committing crimes during the Liberation War in 1971.

Within a span of weeks, a second allegation of “death from wrong treatment” has been raised against Max Hospital in Chattogram, with a case filed this time by the aggrieved.

Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday urged all to be united to bring human rights violators to book.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday summoned 11 engineers of the Public Works Department (PWD), including incumbent additional chief engineer Utpal Kumar Dey, to quiz them over their alleged involvement in assisting GK Shamim in getting tenders and amassing illegal wealth.

Bangladeshi doctor Professor Akhtar Hussain has been elected president of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF).

A Dhaka court yesterday directed the officer-in-charge (OC) of Shahbagh Police Station to submit a report by January 8, after a defamation case was filed against Dhaks University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) Vice President Nurul Haque Nur.

Different service providing agencies must work together to learn and engage with technology and formulate appropriate policies that will support smart city solutions in order to serve citizens better, speakers said at a seminar yesterday.

BNP yesterday claimed that no incident of minority repression occurred in the country when the party was in power.

Speakers at a discussion yesterday urged the government to bring qualitative changes in skills training for female migrant workers to ensure their safety abroad.

Noting that financing gap is the main challenge for Bangladesh to attain Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, President Abdul Hamid yesterday called for cooperation among nations, including developed countries, to be more active in mobilising required funds.