Mamata, a Chattogram-based NGO, has celebrated its 37th founding anniversary amid much enthusiasm and festivity.

The Election Commission is planning to engage some 42,700 law enforcers on election duty, to maintain law and order during the Dhaka city corporations’ polls on February 1.

The High Court yesterday ordered to freeze bank accounts and seize passports of 20 people, including former managing director of NRB Global Bank and Reliance Finance Limited Proshanta Kumar Halder.

A court in Chattogram yesterday sent four businessmen to jail after they surrendered before the court in a money laundering and document forgery case.

Bangladesh Agriculture University (BAU) authorities yesterday suspended four students after an allegation of stalking was brought against them.

Two people, including a local Jubo League leader, were arrested yesterday in a case filed over the rape of a madrasa student in Narayanganj Sadar upazila.

In a tragic day for commuters, eight people were killed in separate road and train accidents across the country in the last two days, report our correspondents.

A mobile court of Savar upazila yesterday evicted three kilometers of illegal gas lines from Ghoshbagh area of Ashulia.

Miscreants stole gold ornaments, clothes, and cash worth around Tk 37 lakh from a Malibagh apartment in Dhaka on Sunday night.

Peering through cameras and panning across the vast Tanguar Haor is not an everyday activity. And when the main goal is to spot and track the many visiting birds, it just gets better. But this is no vacation; it is a mission to protect the place’s inhabitants and understand them further.

Staffers of Labaid Hospital and Concord Shopping Mall Owners Association members locked into a clash yesterday in the capital’s Dhanmondi, that left some 12 people injured, one of them critically.

Police recovered the body of a nine-year-old girl from her Dakshinkhan residence in Dhaka early yesterday.

The government in December last year formed a protection cell for female workers travelling abroad for employments, Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad told parliament yesterday.

The Society of Organ Transplantation and Kidney Foundation will arrange kidney transplantation from brain-dead patients in intensive care units of different hospitals, for the first time in the country, from next Tuesday.

The son of a police sub-inspector has been missing since Saturday from the capital’s Bashabo area.

Bangladesh Mahila Parishad yesterday said the new Dhaka city mayors, after being elected in the February 1 polls, must work towards making the capital a women-friendly city by ensuring their safety and security.

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed’s enormous contribution to the country’s health sector helped flourish many organisations and institutions, which played important roles in further developing the service-oriented sector, said speakers at a memorial programme yesterday.

A Dhaka court yesterday took cognisance of charges against 25 Buet students accused in Abrar Fahad murder case.

You can hear the hammering of nails from one end, while canes and sticks are being cut on the other. There are floors being polished, name plaques being installed, and people running around to set up their stalls for Amar Ekushey Boi Mela at Suhrawardy Udyan and Bangla Academy premises.

Police detain two men over the gang-rape of a sixth-grade madrasa student in Rajapur area of Jhalakathi on Sunday.