SOS Children’s Villages Bangladesh yesterday at a virtual event launched the global initiative “YouthCan!” in Bangladesh, to support young people who have lost or are at risk of losing parental care.

A Dhaka court yesterday took cognisance of charges against expelled Dhaka South Jubo League president Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat in two cases filed under the arms and narcotics control acts.

Jagannath University (JnU) authorities yesterday unveiled its 16-storey Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib Hall for female students.

Syed Rafiqul Islam, an accused in the murder case of local Swecchasebak League leader Shuvra, was temporarily suspended from his post of Awami League municipal unit president yesterday.

A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against suspended DIG Mizanur Rahman and three others in a graft case.

Thirteen people out of the 14 who were allegedly detained by police -- during and following a clash between law enforcers and agitators protesting jute mill closure in Khulna’s Atra industrial area on Monday -- were shown arrested in a case yesterday.

Civil society groups based in Cox’s Bazar have called for the international community to redouble efforts for quick repatriation of Rohingyas, saying that Bangladesh itself is facing multiple challenges brought on by climate change and Covid-19.

North South University has announced that they would waive 20 percent of tuition fees for the upcoming Fall-2020 semester, in the wake of students’ demo.

The Dhaka Medical College authorities today said it is their failure they could not protect a newborn who was declared dead by the authorities of the hospital on Friday but was later found alive right before the burial.

A suspended constable was arrested today in connection with the death of Rayhan Ahmed after allegedly being tortured in police custody.

The committee formed to investigate the incident of a woman’s rape in Sylhet’s Murari Chand College on September 25 has submitted its report to the High Court.

Goods-carrying water transport workers enforced an indefinite strike across the country today to press home their 11-point demand, disrupting the operation of lighterage vessels and oil tankers at Chattogram Port.

A three-year old baby was sexually abused by her neighbour in Dhaka’s Kadamtoli area yesterday.

Police recovered body of a two-year-old from a bin of a building in Dhaka’s Hazaribagh area this morning.

The High Court yesterday refused to grant bail to an engineer, Md Shafiqul Islam, in three cases filed over corruption in purchasing furniture and household items for the officials of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna.

For the second consecutive day, a group of North South University students staged a sit-in in front of their campus yesterday, demanding 30 percent waiver of fees for the upcoming fall semester.

Residents of ward-33 in Rangpur city have been suffering immensely since part of a clay road connecting Damdama bridge was washed away following a record-breaking downpour on September 26.

Brac Bank Ltd yesterday filed a petition with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court seeking a stay on its High Court verdict that directed the bank to give Tk 15 lakh in compensation to jute mill worker Jaha Alam, who had suffered in jail for three years instead of the real accused in several corruption cases.

Following a report published in The Daily Star, a Supreme Court lawyer yesterday served a legal notice on the government to form a committee in three days to probe the negligence in renovating two-century-old twin temples at Muktagachha in Mymensingh and to take appropriate action against the officials responsible for the negligence.

The Detective Branch of police in a raid at Noorjahan Road in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area yesterday claimed to have busted a fake currency manufacturing mini-factory, owned by one Humayun Kabir who had previously been arrested six times for the same offence.