With an oxygen mask on, Safat, little over a month old, was reluctant to open his eyes at Dhaka Shishu Hospital. His mother wore a worried expression on her face as she held him tightly, trying to keep him warm.

With their main focus on the national election, archrivals Awami League and BNP will use the upcoming city corporation elections to gain ground. Sources in both the parties said they would employ their “full strength” in next month's Dhaka North City Corporation mayoral race to make a good start early in the election year.

A female student of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) in Mymensingh observed a hunger strike in front of her dormitory yesterday, alleging that she was forced out of the hall for not joining a Chhatra League procession.

Executive magistrates can conduct mobile courts until the Supreme Court disposes of three leave-to-appeal petitions filed by the government, the top court said yesterday.

DMP Additional Commissioner Mizanur Rahman, who allegedly married a woman forcibly and tortured her, has been withdrawn from Dhaka Metropolitan Police yesterday.

In a meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday, police demanded an aviation wing for the force.

The historic Homecoming Day of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is being observed today.

A man burned to death and three others were injured when their clothes caught up in the fire they had made to stave off the cold in Alipur of Sirajganj on Monday.

The Anti-Corruption Commission has offered the government help in checking corruption in large projects, but it is yet to get any response, said ACC Chairman Iqbal Mahmood yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the policemen to build themselves as members of a pro-people force as their duty towards people is enormous.

Police yesterday urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to take measures for amending the Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention) Act so that accused policemen can get bail.

The country yesterday registered the lowest temperature in five decades as mercury dipped to 2.6 degrees Celsius in Tentulia of Panchagarh, causing immense sufferings to people.

Forty-five years ago, our constitution announced emphatically that the state shall ensure the separation of the judiciary from the executive "as soon as practicable".

Saiful Haque, a businessman whose name came up during investigation into AB Bank's sensational money laundering, failed to appear before the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) for questioning without informing the graft watchdog.

A tanker carrying oil from Iran to South Korea was ablaze and spilling its cargo off eastern China yesterday after a collision with a cargo ship which left 32 tanker crew members missing.

At least seven Bangladeshi migrant workers were killed and 15 others injured in a road crash in Jizan province of Saudi Arabia on Saturday morning.

Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has given the green signal to AHM Khairuzzaman Liton and Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran to run for mayor in Rajshahi and Sylhet city corporation polls as AL candidates.

A bus crashed into a ditch near the Gouripur bus stop in Comilla's Daudkandi upazila on July 7 last year. Within moments, it was sinking into the filthy water.

The government is going to form a company to oversee bus operations in the capital, provide people with better services and reduce traffic congestion.

The cold wave continued to disrupt life across the country yesterday.