Newly-appointed Indian High Commissioner Vikram K Doraiswami yesterday requested Bangladesh to reduce all general charges for using Bangladeshi airports by Indian airlines for the time being, as Covid-19 has affected them like other airlines of the world.

The Dhaka University authorities yesterday observed Mourning Day, commemorating the tragic deaths of students, employees and guests in a building collapse at Jagannath Hall in 1985.

Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque yesterday said the country has continued its food production despite the extreme adverse conditions of the pandemic and natural disasters including cyclone and flood.

Stressing the need for educating children on gender equality at home, CRI Trustee and Co-chairperson Saima Wazed Hossain said she wants everyone in the country to be taught women and men are no different.

Speakers at a virtual roundtable yesterday discussed ways to prevent and remedy the ongoing incidents of violence against women.

The hasty decision on enacting death penalty for rape is not only appalling but harmful too, a feminist alliance said today.

A mobile court of Cox’s Bazar district administration was barred allegedly by encroachers when it went to remove the illegal structures from Sugandha Point of the beach today.

Body of a construction worker was found within the boundary of a 10-storey under-construction building in Shah Ali area of Dhaka this afternoon.

A faction of Bangladesh Sadharon Chhatra Odhikar Songrokkhon Parishad announced a new 22-member convener committee after declaring its joint conveners Nurul Haque Nur -- also Ducsu former vice-president -- and Muhammad Rashed Khan as "unwanted" today.

Officials of Chattogram Customs House recovered 160 gold bars worth around Tk 11 crore at Shah Amanat International Airport this morning.

Holding torches and placards, hundreds of women marched in the streets of Dhaka early yesterday, protesting the government’s failure to provide security for women and the recent surge in rape.

The High Court will deliver its order on Sunday on a writ petition that challenged the legality of the process for reappointing Taqsem A Khan to the post of managing director (MD) of Dhaka Wasa.

The High Court yesterday issued several directives on the authorities concerned to stop fake arrest warrants.

The Counter Terrorism Unit of Chattogram Metropolitan Police has arrested six suspected ‘Neo-JMB’ operatives over the bomb blast at a traffic police box which left five men including two cops injured in Sholoshahar Gate-2 area on February 28 this year.

A Dhaka court yesterday again asked Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) to submit the probe report of a case filed over murder of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi by November 22.

The High Court yesterday directed the lower court concerned to finish the trial proceedings of a corruption case against former BNP state minister Lutfozzaman Babar in 30 days.

Bangladesh needs an integrated approach to develop public awareness against trafficking of persons and smuggling of individuals, Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain said yesterday.

To ensure proper nutrition for all and protect cattle farmers, speakers have called for coordinated efforts to grow a robust milk industry in the country.

Some with bags in hand, others hands bare -- Barishal city dwellers were rushing to Port Road hilsa wholesale market on Tuesday midnight.

Amnesty International yesterday criticised the Bangladesh government’s decision to introduce death penalty as a punishment for rape, terming it a “regressive step”.