“No structure can be set up on lands along rivers. If anyone tries to harm rivers, we will take strict action,” said Dr Muzibur Rahman Howlader, chairperson of National River Conservation Commission (NRCC), while visiting Dhaleshwari River in Savar yesterday.

A people’s court asked Bangladesh government to ensure the protection of marine biodiversity and ecology alongside ensuring the rights of resource-dependent coastal communities when implementing any projects related to the blue economy.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday extended its chamber judge’s order that stayed a High Court directive which asked Titas Gas Ltd to give Tk 5 lakh as initial costs to each family of the victims, who died and suffered burns in the Narayanganj mosque blast.

Jahangirnagar University students demonstrated on the campus yesterday, demanding holding of their honours final year examinations that have remained postponed due to Covid-19 pandemic.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday said there will be no open-air events on the occasion of Victory Day (December 16) this year due to the ongoing pandemic.

The people of Rangpur had witnessed the Pakistani armies brutally killing their loved ones. They saw their houses burning down before their own eyes. And evidence of such atrocities during the Liberation War is gradually piling up.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh today said they will recover all the canals from encroachers and clean those before next monsoon.

Captain Saifur Rahman, managing director of NetWorld Group, has been elected president of Gulshan Club Limited for the year 2020-21.

Two people were killed and three others were injured in a road accident at Kalihati upazila in Tangail early yesterday.

The High Court yesterday questioned the legality of 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.

A forum of Non-Government Organisations (NGO) and Civil Society Organisations (CSO) yesterday urged transparency and best uses of all international humanitarian and development assistance, in a virtual press conference.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will begin its “Bangabandhu Lecture Series” today, marking the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Police yesterday arrested six people including the husband and step-son of a woman who was stabbed and burnt to death in her flat in Dhaka’s Kafrul area on Sunday.

UN World Health Organization (WHO) has urged nations and health partners to step up the fight against malaria, with better targeting of interventions, new tools and increased funding.

In a bid to save the country’s rivers from erosion, the government has taken an initiative of limiting the amount of sand extraction. However, the initiative seems to have stumbled at the very beginning.

Newly-appointed Principal Staff Officer (PSO) of the Armed Forces Division Waqar-uz-Zaman was adorned with the rank badge of lieutenant general at a function in presence of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Gono Bhaban yesterday afternoon.

Some people are more vulnerable to the effects of cold weather. This includespeople aged 65 and older, babies and children under the age of 5, people on a low income, people who have a long-term health condition, people with a disability, pregnant womenand people who have a mental health condition.

Three people were sentenced to death yesterday for killing a child in Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj in 2013.

Eminent gynecologist and ex-departmental head of Mymensingh Medical College Dr AKM Mojibur Rahman Khan Hira has passed away. He breathed his last at a private hospital in Dhaka around 10pm on Sunday, after battling with Covid-19. He was 68 at the time, says a press release.

Mursalin Nomani and Moshiur Rahman Khan have been elected president and general secretary of Dhaka Reporters Unity.