Modern machinery and technology in government-owned jute mills can turn the sector profitable and can solve ongoing problems of the beleaguered workers, said leaders of Sramik Kormochari Oikya Parishad.

National Professor Talukder Maniruzzaman passed away at Apollo Hospitals in the capital early yesterday.

The government needs to create a comprehensive maritime policy, experts at a roundtable at the The Daily Star Centre said yesterday.

Seventy-seven assistant judges have been promoted to senior assistant judge on advice from the Supreme Court.

A speeding bus of Star Line crashed into a road divider on Dhaka-Chattogram highway, killing one and injuring at least 15 passengers in Narayanshar area of Cumilla’s Burichang upazila around 9am yesterday.

Md Ashraful Alam, an additional chief engineer of Roads and Highways Department (RHD), has been made the chief engineer (current charge) of RHD.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government is working to transform Bangladesh Army into a time-befitting, technologically well-equipped and modern force.

As part of celebrating Bangladesh Peace and Harmony Week 2019, a roundtable titled “Policy Café” was held on Friday to promote interfaith harmony and cooperation in achieving sustainable development goals (SDG).

Workers of eight state-owned jute mills in Khulna and Jashore industrial belt went on an indefinite hunger strike again from yesterday, to press home an 11-point demand including implementation of wage commission.

Police yesterday arrested a woman with 7,950 yaba pills from Chattogram Railway Station area.

A woman who sustained burn injuries after her clothes caught on fire while she was warming herself by fire, died at Rangpur Medical College Hospital (RMCH) on Saturday.

Rail communication with Dhaka and Chattogram from Sylhet was restored after around five hours yesterday.

Claiming that it is not possible to get credible results from electronic voting machines (EVMs), BNP yesterday alleged that the Election Commission is trying to use the technology in the two city polls to “fulfil the government’s desire”.

Mock voting using electronic voting machines will be held at all voting centres of Dhaka on January 28, ahead of the Dhaka city corporation elections.

Two youths yesterday confessed to magistrates that they killed 70-year-old businessman Tobarak Hossain at his Tejgaon flat on December 25, with an intention for looting valuables.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has issued a notice to former presidium member of Awami Jubo League central committee Sheikh Fazlur Rahman Maruf, to record his statement over corruption allegations against GK Shamim.

Planning Minister MA Mannan yesterday said poverty reduction is the main challenge ahead of the government as the rate is still high, although the country has made significant economic progress in recent years.

President Abdul Hamid yesterday asked the University Grants Commission (UGC) to play its due role in ensuring proper academic environment and quality education in the universities.

Bangladesh should take preparations in light of recent developments in neighbouring India over its National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, eminent jurist Dr Shahdeen Malik said yesterday.

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