A contempt of court petition was filed with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday against Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Atiqul Islam and six others on charge of conducting an eviction drive in Mirpur section 11, block-C ignoring its chamber judge’s order of status quo on the eviction.

A specialist team of Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDRC) will be collecting samples for further research to understand the strain of Covid-19 that UK returnees are affected with.

Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) unit of Bangladesh Nurses Association yesterday formed a human chain inside the college campus, demanding exemplary punishment of a doctor who has been accused of sexually harassing a nurse.

Bangladesh Environment Lawyers Association (Bela) and Youth Environment Society (YES) yesterday served a legal notice upon six government bodies including the land and environment ministries and Roads and Highways Department (RHD) over filling up Kohelia river in Cox’s Bazar.

After a year of closure due to the coronavirus outbreak, the provost committee of Dhaka University (DU) has finally recommended opening residential halls by the first week of March for its final-year and last-semester examinees at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) Commissioner Saleh Mohammed Tanvir today requested city dwellers to carry their National Identity Card (NID) cards on the day of city elections.

A contempt of court petition was filed with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today against Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Atiqul Islam and six others on charge of conducting an eviction drive in Dhaka’s Mirpur-11 ignoring its chamber judge’s order of status quo on the eviction.

Chattogram City Corporation, considered to be a lifeline of the country’s economy also happens to be the third largest among 12 city corporations in the country in terms of voters. Dubbed as the commercial capital of Bangladesh, the port city has more than 19 lakh voters.

Stern actions will be taken if anyone tries to ruin election atmosphere during tomorrow’s Chattagram City Corporation polls, Returning Officer of the election Mohammad Hasanuzzaman said today.

An Indian national was arrested at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Sunday night while trying to board a UK-bound flight with a fake visa.

By nature, a city councillor’s job is not that attractive. On paper, elected councillors may enjoy some local repute but have little power to exercise. All they get to do is sign certificates and monitor civic services like waste management and street light maintenance in wards.

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The Covid-19 vaccination campaign is about to kick off in the country, however, training of health officials, workers and volunteers in this regard is yet to start in Chattogram.

Former managing director of House Building Finance Corporation (HBFC) Naziruddin Ahmed has passed away on January 17, 2021. He was 79 at the time.

Daffodil International University (DIU) celebrated its 19th founding anniversary by hosting virtual events over the last two days, a press release said.

Police arrested a private university student from Dhaka on charge of raping a student of another university in October last year and blackmailing her for months afterwards.

The Holy Cross Brothers, a society of Catholic Church in Bangladesh, are setting up a school and college in Rajshahi city.

Police yesterday exhumed the body of 13-year-old Nodi Akter, six months after her death at Saudi Arabia, and three months after the burial at the capital’s Khilgaon graveyard.

An elderly man was arrested by Rajshahi police yesterday on charges of sexual assault.

The High Court yesterday cleared the lower court concerned to continue the trial proceedings against Partha Gopal Banik, a suspended deputy inspector general (prisons) of Sylhet division, in a case filed over recovery of Tk 80 lakh from his residence in Dhaka.