Information Minister Hasan Mahmud yesterday said the Media Workers Bill will be placed in the cabinet soon.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday inaugurated installation works of the tracks of the country’s first-ever metro rail.

Countdown to Mujib Borsho -- celebrating the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman -- will start on January 10, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said yesterday.

Teachers and students of Rajshahi University (RU) in a human chain demanded the authorities concerned to save the family house of renowned filmmaker and screenwriter Ritwik Ghatak, and declare it a heritage site.

12-year-old Reshma Akhter, a fourth-grader of Katgor Mirapara Government Primary School, woke up early yesterday morning and prepared herself for school. It was the first day of the new year, and Reshma could barely hold her excitement of getting her hands on brand-new books. She set out to attend school in delight.

Police arrested two persons after a group of criminals stabbed a local hawkers’ leader to death and injured another in port city’s Shershah area on Tuesday night.

Police on Tuesday night arrested eight people, including two foreigners, in a drive at Panchaboti area of Rajshahi city on charges of buying and selling drugs.

Dhaka University’s department of pharmaceutical technology yesterday relieved a teacher of all academic activities of one batch of the department, for allegedly threatening some students.

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda yesterday said there is no scope left to reconsider whether the polls of two city corporations in Dhaka and by-polls of Chattogram-8 constituency would be held through electronic voting machines (EVM), as the Election Commission has already decided to hold those polls through EVM.

Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (Bapa) and Bangladesh Environment Network (BEN) will organise a daylong conference on environmental movement at Stamford University in the capital on Saturday.

FAIR Dhaka International Trade Fair

The detective branch (DB) of police seized a consignment of 50,000 yaba pills at the capital’s Baridhara area on Tuesday night, in small packets attached to out-of-view parts of a truck’s body with powerful magnets.

Former secretary Syed Tanveer Hussain passed away on Tuesday from prolonged illness, says a press release. His namaz-e-janaza was held on the same day and he was laid to rest alongside his parents and brother.

The authorities concerned have finalised the paper books of sensational August 21 grenade attack cases for the High Court’s early hearing on the death references and appeals in the case.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has vowed to implement the single digit interest rate from April saying the government stood firm on the issue as it would boost investment in the country.

Although there was a decline in the number of road accidents, the country saw more deaths on roads in the immediate-past year of 2019 compared to 2018.

A Dhaka University teacher has been relieved of all academic activities for allegedly threatening some students of his pharmaceutical technology department.

Detectives have seized a consignment of 50,000 yaba pills at Dhaka’s Baridhara area while being carried concealing in packets attached with different covered parts of a truck with powerful magnets.

State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Md Zakir Hossen urges students to prepare themselves as worthy citizens to transform Bangladesh into a developed and prosperous country as dreamt by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain reconstitutes five High Court benches, as both the Appellate and High Court divisions of the Supreme Court will reopen tomorrow after a two-week annual vacation.