Thousands of students of Rajshahi University (RU), who were expecting to sit for their final examinations on university campus, are in uncertainty due to the lockdown imposed in Rajshahi.

Former Jatiya Party lawmaker MA Hannan, who was facing trial for allegedly committing crimes during the Liberation War, died of cancer yesterday. He was 86.

Even amid the pandemic, hundreds of conservancy workers in port city take to the streets to clean up the waste produced in the day. However, they continue to collect the waste without using any safety equipment, putting them at risk of being infected by various diseases.

Police on Monday arrested a youth on charge of assaulting and verbally abusing a girl on a footbridge in Dhaka’s Shanir Akhra area on February 14.

A woman died after the gas cylinder of a truck exploded in Dhaka’s Hazaribagh Beribandh area yesterday. The deceased Salma Begum (30), a labourer, was on the truck at the time.

The newly appointed vice-chancellor (VC) of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR) officially assumed his post on campus yesterday.

Police have pressed charges against three people in a case filed over the murder of school student Nila Roy in Savar last year.

The cabinet yesterday approved the draft of a policy to develop the automobile industry in the country in a bid to be self-reliant in this sector.

Members of Detective Branch (DB) of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) claimed to have identified several gangs that use mobile financial service to defraud people, and arrested two operatives of a gang.

Police yesterday pressed charges against two former leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra Odhikar Parishad but dropped names of former DUCSU VP Nurul Haque Nur and three others in a case filed with Kotwali Police Station over rape of a Dhaka University student last year.

The High Court yesterday directed the authorities concerned not to evict Tripura families from Sonaichhari in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila till further order.

The High Court yesterday cleared the way for holding the Laxmipur-2 constituency by-election, where Mohammad Shahid Islam -- also known as Kazi Papul -- had been elected as an independent lawmaker.

The attitude of some lawmakers towards women has become a matter of great concern, said women’s rights activists as well as organisations working for women’s rights and empowerment yesterday.

BNP MP Harunur Rashid yesterday -- at the parliament -- demanded that perpetrators behind the death of a college girl in a Dhaka flat be punished.

Chattogram District Administration started a massive eviction drive on the hill that surrounds port city’s Bayezid Bostami Link Road yesterday.

The first death anniversary of veteran Awami League leader and former minister Mohammed Nasim was observed yesterday with different programmes maintaining health guideline protocols for Covid-19.

The authorities of Cumilla University have started holding in-person examinations -- postponed due to Covid-19 situation -- from yesterday, maintaining health guidelines.

Public vehicles in Chattogram city are defying government instructions for movement during the pandemic in every way possible.

Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) is erecting boundary pillars along the foreshore of river Buriganga in Basila without recovering the much-talked about 13 acres of river land and eight acres of foreshore that had been grabbed by a late lawmaker.

Today is the sixth death anniversary of Habibur Rahman Milon, former advisory editor of the daily Ittefaq.