The Garo community in Dhaka marked “Wangala” -- the celebration for bountiful harvest -- amid fanfare yesterday at DNCC field in Banani.

It will now be easier for travellers to go from Pirojpur to Kolkata in India on bus as Green Line Paribahan has launched their service in this route yesterday.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday warned those who are still trying to continue robbery in the Sundarbans, saying no one will be spared to keep the forest free of robbers.

With an aim to boosting women entrepreneurship, the month-long 13th International Women’s SME Expo Bangladesh kicked off in port city yesterday.

Agitating teachers and students of Jahangirnagar University (JU) -- who have been demonstrating for over a month demanding removal of VC Prof Farzana Islam from her post -- yesterday said they were feeling a sense of insecurity on campus.

Investigators of the much-talked-about case of National Identity (NID) scam involving Rohingyas have been waiting for the green signal from high-ups to arrest the Election Commission (EC) staff members whose involvement were found in confessional statements of three forgery gang ring leaders.

Police recover throat-slit bodies of a woman and her female domestic help from a flat in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi area.

Charge sheet in the Buet student Abrar Fahad murder case will be submitted by the current week, Monirul Islam, additional commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) says.

BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed says the fall of the current government is a matter of time because of its widespread corruption.

Former mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation and BNP vice chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka is in critical condition and now fighting for life at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, New York.

A Dhaka court places Mainul Haque Manju, a ward councillor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), on a 10-day remand in two separate cases for his possession of illegal firearms and drugs.

A bus service from Pirojpur to India’s Kolkata has been inaugurated. Deputy Commissioner Abu Ali Md Sazzad Hossain and Police Superintendent Hayatul Islam Khan inaugurated the service at Pirojpur Zila Bus Terminal in the morning.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said the Road Transport Act has been enacted aiming to bring discipline on roads and highways of the country.

Voicing deep concern over the “skyrocketing” onion price, BNP senior leader Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury yesterday alleged that the government has done nothing to control the market.

The government will provide separate budgetary allocation for children of every district in the next fiscal year, said Md Abul Kalam Azad, principal coordinator (SDG affairs) at the Prime Minister’s Office, yesterday.

Organiser: Dhaka Wangala Celebrating Committee

Bangladesh will formally introduce electronic passports (e-passport) on November 28 , Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said yesterday.

The father of a youth, who was killed in Hazaribagh on Tuesday night, filed a case yesterday accusing 19 named and two to three unnamed others.

Eminent jurist and Jatiya Oikyafront convener Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday urged people from all the quarters to launch a united and positive movement, to materialise the dream of martyrs who sacrificed their lives to establish democracy and rule of law and make people the owners of the country.

A memorial lecture in honour of Quazi Nooruzzaman Bir Uttam, Commander of Sector 7 during the 1971 Liberation War, will be held at Social Science Building of Dhaka University tomorrow (November 2).