Followers of two aspirants for the president position of Awami Swechchhasebak League’s Dhaka north city unit locked in altercation and threw plastic chairs at each other at the organisation’s conference in the capital.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-7) in separate drives arrested two persons in possession of 29,300 yaba pills -- from Boddarhat and Alongkar intersection areas of the port city yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday emphasised the need for industrialisation that does not result in reduced food production.

Teachers and students of Jahangirnagar University (JU) yesterday resumed their protest for the removal of JU Vice Chancellor over the allegation of corruption after a two-day interval due to bad weather.

World Kindness Day is observed internationally today, in order to encourage individuals to be kind and humane to everyone regardless of nationality, race, or religion.

With a view to improving quality of treatment, the country’s first government recognised diabetes treatment guideline was launched yesterday.

Bangladesh-India relations for development cooperation shined as an instance on the second day of the Dhaka Global Dialogue yesterday, while tensions between regional powers -- Japan versus China and India versus China -- surfaced prominently.

The High Court yesterday directed presidents and general secretaries of all bar associations across the country to provide legal assistance to justice seekers if they fail to engage any other lawyer to defend them.

Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmed came under fire yesterday as three opposition lawmakers in parliament criticised him for his ministry’s failure to stop torture and sexual harassment of Bangladeshi female workers in Saudi Arabia.

Culture of impunity and non-cooperation of the administration in getting justice are major reasons behind violence against ethnic minority communities, particularly women, speakers said at a discussion yesterday.

Opposition Chief Whip and Jatiya Party Secretary General Mashiur Rahman Ranga yesterday faced scathing criticism, including from two senior MPs of his own party, alongside lawmakers of the ruling Awami League and opposition parties in the Jatiya Sangsad, for his recent derogatory remarks over Shaheed Noor Hossain.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) presses charges against Kalabagan Krira Chakra President Shafiqul Alam Feroz in a case filed in connection with possessing an illegal firearm.

Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmed has been criticised by three opposition lawmakers in parliament for the ministry’s failure to stop torture and sexual harassment of Bangladeshi female workers in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has expressed grave shock at the fatal train accident that left at least 16 people dead at Kasba upazila of Brahmanbaria and said it is an outcome of the government’s failure in governing the country properly.

A woman is run over by a bus while she was getting down from the same bus in Dhaka’s Shantinagar area.

Families of 10 fishermen who died reportedly during the cyclone Bulbul are given compensation from the district administration.

Sixteen people, who were killed in a collision between two trains in Brahmanbaria’s Kasba upazila, have been identified.

High Court forms a two-member judicial probe committee to find out the persons who are responsible for failure to prevent mosquito-borne disease dengue.

A tribunal in Dhaka yesterday directed a sub-inspector of Brahmanpara Police Station of Cumilla to explain why legal action would not be taken against him for arresting an innocent man instead of the real accused in a drug case.

Today is the 20th death anniversary of Hasna Hena Qadir, one of the founders of Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee.