Two security guards confess to two separate magistrates that they strangled Chinese national Jianhui Gao to death in his Banani flat and looted Tk 3.49 lakhs on December 10.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police takes up security measures for all the churches in Dhaka ahead of the "Christmas Day" to be celebrated on December 25.

Two leaders of Muktijuddho Moncho including its central general secretary Al Mamun have been detained following yesterday's attack on Ducsu Vice President Nurul Haque Nur and others.

An alleged drug trader is killed in a reported gunfight with police in Noakhali’s Chatkhil upazila.

A two-day international conference on Sustainable Technologies for Industry (STI) will begin at Green University of Bangladesh in the capital tomorrow.

A mobile court of Water Development Board has demolished 28 illegal structures on both sides of Patuakhali-Kuakata road during a drive.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has given a clear instruction to take organisational and administrative actions against the persons who attacked Ducsu Vise President Nurul Haque Nur and his supporters yesterday, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says.

A section of Dhaka University students gives a 24-hour ultimatum to the authorities to arrest the culprits who attacked Ducsu Vice President Nurul Haque Nur and his supporters.

Awami League presidium member Jahangir Kabir Nanak promises to punish attackers who assaulted Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) Vice-President Nurul Haque Nur and others.

A Dhaka court will decide on January 22 whether to issue arrest warrants against BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and two others in a case over “instigating students to wage an anti-government movement” last year.

An application was filed with the High Court yesterday seeking its suo moto (voluntary) order on the government, to conduct an inquiry into alleged corruption in appointments of 1,173 employees in BASIC Bank during the chairmanship of chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bacchu.

BNP yesterday criticised Indian Home Minister Amit Shah for “unwarranted labelling” of BNP as repressive while passing the much-discussed Citizenship Amendment Act in the country’s parliament.

Awami League’s full central working committee is expected to be announced tomorrow, newly re-elected AL General Secretary Obaidul Quader said yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday hoped that Bangladesh Navy will be able to be a commercial manufacturer of warships and thus earn foreign currencies alongside creating jobs.

The government is set to recruit 10,000 physicians to ensure healthcare services for people, health ministry officials told a parliamentary body yesterday at a meeting.

Educating parents should be a major part of preventing online harassment of women, speakers said at a roundtable yesterday.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-7) in a drive yesterday arrested a man, who is accused in a gang-rape case, in possession of a knife from Banshkhali upazila of Chattogram.

A 14-year-old was killed in a motorcycle accident at Pirhati area of Dhunat upazila in Bogura on Saturday morning.

A mobile court yesterday fined a man for cutting hills illegally in Ghara Mara area under Mirsarai upazila of Chattogram.

President Abdul Hamid yesterday urged teachers not to compromise with ideals, and devote themselves to acquiring knowledge and disseminating it among students.