With Awami League and BNP both nominating candidates of relatively solid repute at the cost of public office experience for the mayoral post of Chattogram City Corporation (CCC), residents of the port city are cautiously optimistic of a well-fought contest.

With election to Chattogram City Corporation just two weeks away, campaigning is going on in full swing.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday claimed to have arrested three persons for their alleged involvement in killing a police constable of Gazipur Metropoliton Police.

“A certificate may change your life and fulfil your dreams,” reads the tagline of their website.

In a major development in Bangladesh Police, the Ministry of Home Affairs has created a total of 215 new posts of superintendent of police (SP) rank in its organogram, in a bid to bring dynamism to the force.

Police yesterday arrested four people, who are responsible for the death of a woman after falling from a rickshaw during mugging in the capital’s Mugda on February 29.

A patient with coronavirus-like symptoms escaped from Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital yesterday afternoon.

Amid concerns from students and their guardians following the first confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said the government is mulling over closing the educational institutions.

A Dhaka court yesterday deferred to April 16 the hearing date on charge framing against four accused in connection with the murder of Sagira Morshed, who was shot dead in July 1989, following a defense petition.

Militant outfit Neo-JMB’s key leader Jahangir Hossain alias Rajib alias Andhi was yesterday handed the death penalty by a Rajshahi court for the 2016 murder of Hindu priest Joggeswar Dasadhikari Roy of Panchagarh.

Three people were killed and 15 others injured after a truck hit a bus and pushed it into a roadside ditch early yesterday.

A child died from an “unknown disease” and around 40 people were affected in a span of three days in a small neighbourhood of Bandarban, said locals.

Police arrest a student of Jagannath University (JnU) in a case filed over physically assaulting a female student on campus.

Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh has directed all airlines not to carry passengers from European countries, except the UK, to Bangladesh from 12:00pm tomorrow till March 31.

A patient with coronavirus-like symptoms escapes from Dhaka’s Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital.

Detectives today claimed to have arrested four people in connection with the death of a woman in Mugda. On February 29, muggers in a moving car snatched the purse of Tarina Begum Lipi, who then fell from the rickshaw she was on and later died.

A man has been sued under Digital Security Act on charges of uploading videos with false information on his Youtube channel and sharing those on social media.

The government should set up a “Safe Food Foundation” in order to monitor irregularities in food management and implement the Food Safety Act, 2013 properly, said speakers yesterday.

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Announcing that people coming to Bangladesh from coronavirus-affected countries will be kept in compulsory quarantine, Health Minister Zahid Maleque yesterday said anyone violating this directive would have to face punishment.