Income tax officials at a discussion in Rangpur yesterday vowed to deliver best services to taxpayers and enhance revenue earning in order to accelerate the national progress.

At least five people were killed and 19 injured in road accidents across the country in the last two days, report our correspondents and a news agency.

A youth from Sylhet is walking from Gopalganj’s Tungipara to Dhaka city’s Dhanmondi 32, as a tribute to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on his birth centenary.

Academics yesterday urged youths to follow the ideals of Bangabandhu for building a prosperous “Sonar Bangla”

A total of 46 murals of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman were inaugurated on as many union parishad compounds in Thakurgaon yesterday.

Owners of buses plying different long routes on Chattogram-Rangamati and Chattogram-Khagrachari roads yesterday provided free service to passengers on the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

At a time when the government has declared shut down of educational institutions and discouraged gatherings as precautionary measures against the possible spread of coronavirus in the country, candidates for the upcoming port city polls seem unperturbed by it and are continuing to hold rallies and public meetings.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) yesterday launched a hand-washing campaign for pedestrians in the capital, to contain the spread of coronavirus infection.

Dhaka University (DU) authorities yesterday started celebration of Mujib Borsho, marking the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Bidyanondo Foundation, a voluntary organisation working primarily for education of underprivileged children, today started spraying disinfectants in public transports as a preventive measure against possible spread of novel coronavirus.

A week has passed since journalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol went missing, but his family could not yet file a case. Two police stations have been giving Kajol’s family a runaround over the issue.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) launches a handwash campaign for pedestrians in the city with a view to contain the spread of coronavirus infection.

President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pays rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the occasion of the birth anniversary of the great leader.

Foreign nationals with valid visas staying in Bangladesh will now have the option to extend existing visas by three months, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said.

Malka Perveen Banu -- one of the first female, Muslim singers of Radio Pakistan Dhaka -- passed away yesterday at the capital’s United

Officials of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate seized two luxury cars in the port city yesterday.

The assistant director (AD) of Bogura regional passport office went on a leave after Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed a case against him for issuing passport to an Indian national.

Multinational consumer product company Unilever, and telecom operators Robi, Grameenphone and Banglalink yesterday asked employees to stay at home and work online where possible, as a preventive measure against coronavirus.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) yesterday underscored the need for ensuring transparency in financing and financial transactions to uphold the ideology of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

The father and an uncle of a five-year-old, who was brutally killed in Sunamganj’s Derai upazila on October 14 last year, were sentenced to death in the murder case.