A mobile court fined Dr Sirajul Islam Medical College Hospital Tk 30 lakh on charge of using single petri dish for three patients, expired reagents for laboratory tests and other anomalies.

A Dhaka court has concluded recording the statements of witnesses in connection with the killing of blogger Oyasiqur Rahman Babu in 2015.

A joint taskforce led by executive magistrate Sarwoer Alam is conducting a raid at Dr Sirajul Islam Medical College Hospital in Dhaka’s Mouchak area over various allegations.

Counter-terrorism officials claim to have arrested an operative of militant group “Neo JMB” from Babubazar area.

Hundreds of workers and different organisations took to the streets in Khulna and Tangail yesterday, demanding immediate reopening of jute mills under government arrangement and declaration of jute as a national asset.

Jatiya Party (JP) will start distributing nomination forms among prospective candidates in the by-election of Dhaka-5, Pabna-4 and Naogaon-6 from today.

In a boost to the Bangladesh’s microenterprise sector, Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF), an apex development agency of the country, has floated a new project titled ‘Rural Microenterprise Transformation Project (RMTP)’.

Cox’s Bazar CSO NGO Forum (CCNF) yesterday called for peaceful coexistence for Rohingya response until their dignified repatriation to Myanmar.

The Myanmar government has failed to ensure that nearly one million Rohingya refugees can safely return home three years since fleeing their country, Human Rights Watch said in a statement circulated yesterday.

The government has appointed Md Shameem Ahsan, currently serving as the high commissioner of Bangladesh to Nigeria, as the next ambassador to Italy.

To celebrate Mujib Borsho, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) hosted a series of webinars, as part of its various activities round the year, a press release said.

A human chain, organised by Chattogram Muktijoddha Command, demanding action against a lawmaker supposedly for his derogatory comments on a freedom fighter, came under attack at Chattogram Press Club yesterday.

Sheikh Momin Uddin, managing director of Akij Footwear and SAF Industries Ltd, died of Covid-19 while undergoing treatment at Ad-Din Hospital in Dhaka yesterday. He was 63 years old.

For 29-year-old Taiyyaba Khatun, a Rohingya woman living in Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh, providing food for her children became an everyday struggle after she had a fall out with her husband.

United Hospital Limited, the 500-bed multidisciplinary hospital in the capital’s Gulshan, commemorated its 14th anniversary yesterday.

Rapid Action Battalion yesterday claimed to have seized 13 lakh pieces of yaba pills and arrested two Rohingyas from the Bay of Bengal in Cox’s Bazar.

Neither the defence nor the state could file appeal with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court challenging the High Court verdict in the 2009 BDR carnage case, although HC verdict’s full text was released seven months ago.

Maximum non-smoke tobacco companies don’t disclose the ingredients used to make their products, said speakers at a webinar jointly organised by UBINIG and Narigrantha Prabartana yesterday.

They formed a group of 11, and every evening, used to meet and discuss where and how to mug people. As part of their plans, the gang used to position themselves in an area of the capital and cautiously follow their target.

A mother and her eight-year-old son were murdered in Shamsher Para area under Chandgaon Police Station of Chattogram city tonight.