A Dhaka court yesterday placed a driver of Ajmeri Glory Paribahan on a one-day remand in a case filed over the death of a couple in the capital’s Airport area.

On June 15, 2017, a section of a clay wall crashed and fell on 18-year-old Sabina Yeasmin, paralysing her from the waist down. The incident happened just when she was about to sit for her HSC exams, and set her education back by two whole years.

A 23-year-old Bangladeshi youth, also a student at Malaysia’s Asia Pacific University (APU), has been missing for a week since he left his home in the capital’s Bashundhara Residential area on January 13.

The High Court yesterday directed Aslam Shikder, a former programme producer of private TV channel ATN Bangla, to surrender before the Nari O Shishu Nirjaton Daman Tribunal-7 of Dhaka in a case filed for raping a dancer in 2018.

Four public engineering universities who had earlier agreed on a cluster admission test system, are divided on the question of where the exam would be held.

The election of councillor post in ward-31 (Alkaran) of Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) has been cancelled today.

A man was killed after a pick-up van hit him in Dhaka’s Kamrangirchar Beribandh area this morning.

Slamming the government for not announcing any roadmap for coronavirus vaccine distribution, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday voiced his doubts on whether common people will get the life-saving vaccine.

The outstanding bills of six gas distribution companies of the country amount to Tk 9,018 crore, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid told parliament yesterday.

The Bus Route Rationalisation (BRR) Committee yesterday decided on four sites on the periphery of Dhaka to set up bus terminals to stop inter-district buses from entering the city.

A parliamentary body yesterday finalised three bills to publish the results of the HSC and equivalent examinations by January 28.

Mujibur Rahman Dilu, a freedom fighter and actor, passed away at the capital’s United Hospital early yesterday.

A motorcyclist beat up a traffic sergeant with a piece of wood, fracturing the officer’s bones, at Rajshahi city’s Ghora Chattar checkpoint yesterday.

A Dhaka court yesterday sent two union parishad chairmen of Faridpur to jail after their surrender in a Tk 2,000 crore money laundering case.

Three people were killed and 17 injured in road accidents in two districts in the last two days, according to reports from our correspondents.

The High Court yesterday upheld a lower court order that granted bail to JMI Hospital Requisite Manufacturing Ltd’s Chairman Abdur Razzak in connection with a case filed over supplying fake N95 masks for the use of healthcare professionals.

The fifth phase of the municipality elections will be held on February 28, the Election Commission announced yesterday.

Around one-third of 62 rivers in Barishal division has lost navigability, causing suspension of vessel operation in around 460km of 27 waterways, revealed a survey of Center for Environmental and Geographic Information Services yesterday.

A former director of KDS Group yesterday claimed that his former employer is harassing him and his family, filing a total of 28 false cases with fabricated and manipulated documents.

International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) and Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) on Saturday demanded divisional enquiry into the Police Bureau of Investigation (PIB) team and Cox’s Bazar public prosecutor over negligent handling of Lakingme Chakma’s abduction case.