When Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (VISTA) started a dredging operation to remove silt from Barishal River Port around October 16, they expected it to be over by now. However, more than a month later, not even half of the works could be completed.

The 123rd birth anniversary of women’s rights icon Manorama Basu Masima was observed in Barishal yesterday.

The parliament has passed the Sunamganj Science and Technology University Bill 2020 to set up an university in the haor area.

The Department of Narcotic Control (DNC) today sealed off five drug rehabilitation centres which were operating without licenses in the capital.

Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque today said that a 26ft tall sculpture of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will be erected at Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka.

The verdict in the case filed over the rape of a Dhaka University student in the capital's Kurmitola on January 5 will be delivered tomorrow.

Doctor and other staffers of National Institute of Mental Health and Hospital (NIMH) today staged demonstration and observed work abstention to protest the arrest of the hospital’s registrar Dr Abdullah Al Mamun in connection with the death of senior ASP Anisul Karim, who was allegedly beaten to death by the staffers of a private mental health hospital.

A youth was killed by unidentified persons in Dhaka’s Shah Ali area last night.

Customs officials detained a man with 60 gold bars weighing 6.9kg at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport this morning.

A trucker and his helper allegedly killed a trader and injured another in Sirajganj yesterday before driving away with the traders’ onion-laden vehicle.

Speakers at a human chain of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) in the port city yesterday warned fundamentalists against making derogatory comments regarding statues or sculptures of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Dr Abdullah Al Mamun, registrar of National Institute of Mental Health and Hospital (NIMH), was arrested yesterday in connection with the death of senior ASP Anisul Karim, who was allegedly beaten to death by staffers of a private mental hospital.

Suspended Sub-inspector Akbar Hossain Bhuiyan, the prime suspect in the killing of Rayhan Ahmed in police custody in Sylhet, was sent to jail yesterday on completion of his seven-day remand.

Drowning is one of the leading causes of child death in Bangladesh, said experts at an orientation session for journalists yesterday.

Police Bureau of Investigation has been assigned the investigation of the widely covered case of Cumilla Victoria College student and theatre activist Sohagi Jahan Tonu’s rape and murder.

Former deputy speaker Col (retd) Shawkat Ali, who was one of the accused in the historic Agartala Conspiracy Case, was laid to rest with state honours at his village home at Naria, Shariatpur yesterday.

Edge Gallery at the capital’s Gulshan 2 is currently hosting the third season of Jolokabbo, a group watercolour exhibition, which intends to take the audience down a unique artistic voyage through the medium.

Sheikh Razia Naser, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s aunt and mother of lawmakers Sheikh Helal and Sheikh Jewel, was laid to eternal rest at the Banani graveyard in Dhaka following her namaz-e-janaza after Zohr prayers yesterday.

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested five people for allegedly making fake website of the commerce ministry to unload imported goods from Chattogram port.

Two more employees of Mind Aid Psychiatry and De-Addiction Hospital today confessed before a Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate to their involvement in the death of Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police Anisul Karim on November 9.