The country’s police force has largely become people-friendly now, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says.

Returning Officer of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has asked the officer-in-charge of Darussalam Police Station to take legal action over the attack on BNP mayoral aspirant Tabith Awal in Gabtoli area.

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

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud says BNP has been enjoying extra-advantage in the campaign for the upcoming mayoral elections, as law did not bar their top leaders to seek votes unlike those of the ruling Awami League.

High Court has rejected a petition filed by Ayesha Siddika Minni seeking cancellation of the trial proceedings in a case filed against her over the murder of her husband Rifat Sharif.

BNP officially demands cancellation of Electronic Voting Machine use in the upcoming Dhaka north and south city corporation elections.

Amid fear of the breakout of a new SARS-like virus in China, the authorities of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka begin screening process of passengers coming from the country.

Thirteen-year-old Aronno, son of a police sub-inspector, has been missing for the last four days after he went out of his Bashabo residence.

Awami League lawmaker from Jashore-6 and former State Minister for Public Administration Ismat Ara Sadique passes away at a hospital in Dhaka.

Police recover the body of a nine-year-old girl from her Dakshin Khan residence in Dhaka.

A Dhaka court takes cognisance of the charges against 25 students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet), accused in the Abrar Fahad murder case.

A suspected drug peddler is killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion in Dhaka’s Khilkhet area.

ER Khan, managing director of Phoenix Insurance, passed away at the capital’s United Hospital yesterday around 11am, said a press release of the company.

Women candidates for elections to the reserved ward councillor posts of two Dhaka city corporations don’t just want to be “ornamental councillors”; they want to make the city safer for women and have demanded a balance of power between them and their male counterparts so that they can serve people properly.

An international conference on “Revisiting International Relations: Critical Reflections on 100 Years” concluded yesterday at Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban Auditorium of Dhaka University.

Bangladesh and Netherlands will be mutually benefited from the Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 -- which is being executed with the help of the Netherlands government, speakers have said.

A Khulna court yesterday sentenced six people to life term in a case filed over killing Ripon Roy in Batiaghata of the district in 2007.

The Election Commission yesterday disclosed the update of the countrywide draft voter list, adding 53.66 lakh voters.

The cabinet division in principle yesterday approved that there will be no quota system in public services for 8th grade and above.

Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukdar yesterday alleged that activities of executive magistrates deployed to monitor the violation of election code of conduct in Dhaka city polls were not visible.