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.

Four boys have been expelled from a government school in Rajshahi, allegedly for their hairstyle.

Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK) has expressed deep concern over Rajuk’s mobile court drive yesterday that fined and ordered the rights organisation to leave its Lalmatia office in two months.

The government has taken an initiative to amend the existing Drug Act, incorporating provisions for stern punishment, and to make it time-befitting in a bid to prevent irregularities in the medical sector.

A newborn was allegedly stolen by miscreants from Marie Stopes Clinic at Basail area in Narsingdi town on Wednesday.

A Khulna court yesterday sentenced three people to life imprisonment for killing Md Yunus Ali, manager of Satu Diognostic Centre, in the city on June 13, 2011.

Police recovered the body of a woman from a house in Ashulia’s Gazirchat area yesterday.

The agitating Buet students place three-point demand including expulsion of the 25 charge-sheeted accused in Abrar Fahad murder case.

The Dhaka International Folk Fest (DIFF) authorities says that the personal information and other relevant data of the audience are required during their registration process on security ground.

At least eight passengers are injured as three compartments of Rangpur Express catch fire after the derailment of the intercity train in Ullapara upazila of Sirajganj.

Grameenphone has agreed to pay Tk 200 crore, out of Tk 12,580 crore dues, to Bangladesh Telecom Regulatory Commission (BTRC) initially as the mobile phone operator settled the matter with the mobile phone regulator in presence of posts and telecommunication minister and finance minister.

Umme Shahara Bari, 83, passed away yesterday at the capital’s Anwer Khan Modern Medical College Hospital.

Marketable skills development is the key to employment and improving living conditions of the climate migrants and urban poor, said experts and high officials at a seminar in the capital yesterday.

Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmed yesterday said at the parliament said the labour market in Malaysia will open to Bangladesh soon.

Shakhawat Hossain (52) has been bedridden for the last three months, due to a surgery on his left toe on August 19 this year. A week before the surgery, he had an injury in the toe caused by a treenail. As he is a diabetic patient, since 2014, medication did not work on the injury and there was no option other than surgery.

A man was killed and two were injured in a clash between two groups of Awami League in Rajshahi yesterday, allegedly over tender-related issues.