Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh yesterday said he would not patronise any corruption, which exists in every nook and corner of the city corporation.

Dhaka University authorities yesterday decided to bring all students of the university under health insurance.

An Argentine court has moved one step closer to opening a historic investigation against Myanmar’s military and civilian leadership over genocide against the Rohingya people, the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) says.

A staffer of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has died of Covid-19 while undergoing treatment at the Central Police Hospital in the capital.

The High Court today sought separate probe reports -- from four authorities concerned -- on the deadly fire at the corona isolation unit in United Hospital that killed five patients on May 27.

The Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) today demanded cancellation of the government’s decision to increase bus fares by 60 percent.

A virtual court in Dhaka has rejected a bail petition of Khondaker Enamul Basir, a suspended director of Anti-Corruption Commission, in a bribery case.

Dhaka Medical College Hospital's (DMCH) urologist Monzoor Rashid Chowdhury dies from Covid-19.

A virtual court in Dhaka has rejected a bail petition of Meftahul Islam Zion, a 15th batch student of naval architecture and marine engineering department, in connection with the killing of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) student Abrar Fahad in October last year.

Detectives yesterday arrested four people from different parts of Dhaka in connection with a case filed over National Bank’s missing Tk 80 lakh on May 10.

A Supreme Court lawyer yesterday filed a writ petition with the High Court, challenging the chief justice’s decision to run virtual functions of courts across the country.

Rapid Action Battalion arrested five alleged members of Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in Muktagachha upazila of Mymensingh early yesterday.

Kuwait’s interior ministry has started opening files of three major companies on suspicions of human trafficking of some 4,000 foreign workers, mostly Bangladeshis.

The daily order of business of this year’s budget session will be carried out with minimum lawmakers in the House, in an attempt to maintain social distancing and avoid the risk of novel coronavirus infection.

A rights organisation yesterday filed a writ petition with the High Court challenging the government’s decision to increase the bus fares by 60 percent.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh yesterday announced a change in the total mosquito control activities to speed up the work to control the menace in DSCC areas.

Tamim Iqbal, Bangladeshi cricket star and current captain of the country’s one day international team, has been appointed as National Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Bangladesh, said a press release.

Dhaka University authorities yesterday stopped coronavirus testing facilities at its laboratories.

The High Court yesterday rejected a bail petition of suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Prisons Bazlur Rashid in connection with a corruption case filed over amassing Tk 3.08 crore beyond known source of income.

Md Anwar Hossain, father of Ashraful Alam Khokan, deputy press secretary to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, passed away yesterday at his village home in Kapashia, Gazipur. He was 79.