Rights body Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK) yesterday alleged that Rajuk’s mobile court, which fined and ordered the organisation to vacate its Lalmatia office in two months, forced them to sign a statement saying they have committed an offence.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy is not interested yet in taking any position in Awami League’s central committee, party general secretary Obaidul Quader said yesterday.

North South University (NSU) in collaboration with Times Higher Education (THE) jointly organised a workshop on “The Data Masterclass - World University Rankings” at the university’s campus in Bashundhara on Thursday, said a press release.

After all its mechanisms went in vain to cool down the overheated onion market, the government has decided to fly in onion from abroad next week in a bid to pull reins of the onion price.

Bangladesh thanks all the UN member states as a resolution on the situation of human rights of the Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar has been adopted at the Unites Nations (UN).

BNP Standing Committee Member Goyeshwar Chandra Roy suggests his party’s lawmakers to come out of the parliament as they are denied space of raising voices against misdeeds and misrules of the ruling quarter.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave Dhaka for Dubai tomorrow on a four-day official visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to attend Dubai Air Show-2019 and other programmes.

Onion prices at the kitchen markets in Dhaka city hit a record high, failing the government’s mechanisms to cool down the overheated onion market.

Full-fledged rail service of Dhaka with northern and southern districts is yet to be restored due to repair work on the rail lines damaged during accident of Rangpur Express in Sirajganj yesterday.

The government has decided to appoint Ambassador Kamrul Ahsan, currently serving as secretary for Bilateral and Consular Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as the new ambassador of Bangladesh to Russian Federation.

A suspected Rohingya drug trader is killed in a reported gunfight with members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) at Ledar Churi in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

Moazzem Hossain, former officer-in-charge of Sonagazi Police Station, yesterday claimed to be innocent in the incident of circulating a video clip of madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi being interrogated.

State minister for shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury yesterday told the parliament that a total of 4,711 people were killed in accidents in river ways in the last 44 years.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday filed an appeal with the Supreme Court challenging the High Court order that rejected her bail petition in Zia Charitable Trust graft case in which she was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment by a lower court.

The High Court yesterday observed that the successes of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) will be devalued to some extent if the elite force cannot find the motive and perpetrators behind the murders of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi.

The High Court yesterday directed the government to remove the names of Pakistani collaborators from roads and structures across the country and rename them after freedom fighters in 90 days.

President Abdul Hamid has stressed the need for enhancing cooperation between Bangladesh and Nepal through strengthening connectivity.

Unless combined efforts are made by families to maintain healthy lifestyle, diabetes can never be brought under control, speakers at a discussion said yesterday.

The admission test for 2019-20 session of Pabna University of Science and Technology (PUST) will be held today.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said hunger has already been eradicated from the country, and vowed afresh to make Bangladesh poverty-free.