The murder of readymade garment worker Azharul Islam, whose dismembered body was recovered from septic tank of a mosque in the capital’s Dakshinkhan on Tuesday, was preplanned.

Gas supply will remain halted in several areas of the capital for up to six hours today, as the gas distribution company is undertaking pipeline relocation work.

A group of students demonstrated yesterday by holding a symbolic class on the street in the city’s Shaheb Bazar area, demanding immediate reopening of all educational institutions.

Three young boys in their teen years, one standing, ready to throw a grenade, two others kneeling down, their rifles pointed afar; the photograph drips with their grit and intent, and it has become a symbol of the Liberation War.

With district-level hospitals unable to provide adequate facilities, Covid-19 patients have been rushing into Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) in the divisional headquarters.

Police and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-7) in separate drives seized around 1.75 lakh yaba pills and arrested nine persons from different parts of Chattogram’s Patiya upazila in the last two days.

Law enforcers yesterday morning recovered mutilated and decomposed body of a man, who had been missing for several days, from the septic tank of a mosque in the capital’s Dakshinkhan area. The deceased was identified as Azharul Islam Azhar (30), an RMG worker.

A Swechchhasebak League leader and nephew of the local lawmaker was arrested in Natore yesterday hours after he had allegedly assaulted an executive engineer of Bangladesh Water Development Board, said police.

The High Court yesterday upheld a lower court order that asked Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to freeze bank accounts and seize documents of properties of former Pirojpur lawmaker AKMA Awal and his wife Laila Parvin in two corruption cases.

Mufti Amir Hamza, a well-known speaker on Islam, was placed on a five-day remand yesterday in connection with a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act.

The national budget for 2021-22 should be adopted focusing on the health crisis caused by Covid-19, said speakers at a virtual discussion yesterday.

A newly-married woman was killed in a collision between a motorbike and a truck in Panchagarh’s Boda upazila on Monday night.

Anti-terrorism Unit (ATU) of police arrested a convicted member of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), nearly three years after a Rangpur court sentenced him to death for killing the caretaker of a shrine.

Country Manager of airline operator Saudia in Bangladesh, Tarik A Alowaidi, yesterday asked all Saudia Arabia -bound Bangladeshi workers to book hotels for quarantine stays through the airline’s holiday website.

With the railway authorities yet to determine the fate of 10 locomotives that a South Korean company supplied breaching contract, the project authority has sought one-year extension of deadline.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday met with five journalists’ associations at the Secretariat, and told the leaders that the Rozina Islam issue need not have rolled so far.

Ekushey Padak laureate poet Habibullah Sirajee was laid to eternal rest yesterday at Azimpur Graveyard.

After Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) Mayor Rezaul Karim Chowdhury took office on February 15, he started a 100-day crash programme to solve some of the city’s key issues on priority basis. Even though 95 days have gone by, most of the problems still persist, and the mayor’s promises remain unfulfilled.

Students of different institutions formed human chains across the country yesterday, demanding reopening of all educational institutions immediately.

Allocation for the education sector in the upcoming budget should be increased so that it can make up for the losses due to the Covid-19 pandemic, said an education advocacy and campaign network yesterday.