Commuters have been suffering immensely on Dhaka-Aricha highway as police set up check posts at several points including Aminbazar and Gabtoli, causing huge jam on the highway.

Police suspect the murders of a woman and a teenager in the city’s Mirpur on Tuesday happened following altercation over money -- centring prostitution.

Indiscriminate implementation of projects in the name of development have proved counterproductive, as those have spelt lethal blows to the very existence of the country’s rivers over the decades, said top officials and conservationists at a seminar yesterday.

The 56th death anniversary of one of the greatest leaders of undivided India Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy will be observed in the country today.

Today is the 91st birth anniversary of Syed Mohammad Ali, founder editor of The Daily Star and a luminary in journalism of Bangladesh.

Eminent personalities and family members of Nurul Islam, a noted politician who along with his son Tamohar were killed in a fire incident in 2008, demanded that the mystery of their deaths be solved immediately.

Muktijuddho Moncho, a platform comprising descendants of freedom fighters, yesterday padlocked Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) Vice President Nurul Haque Nur’s office room at the student union building, demanding his resignation from the post of VP.

Police yesterday filed the charge-sheet in a case lodged under Narcotics Control Act against Lokman Hossain, director in-charge of Mohammedan Sporting Club.

The inaugural session of the five-day workshop “2nd IBRO-APRC Bangladesh Associate School of Neuroscience”, organised by United International University’s (UIU) computer science and engineering department in conjunction with International Brain Research Organization, was held yesterday at the university’s auditorium in the capital, said a press release.

The High Court yesterday summoned the director general of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) and its director (hospitals and clinics) to appear before it on January 8 next year, to know the progress on setting up 30-bed intensive care unit (ICU) and coronary care unit (CCU) at district hospitals across the country.

For the first time in the history of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP), traffic sergeants are going to get weekly day offs.

The High Court has set December 8 for delivering verdict on the appeals and death reference in journalist Atiqul Islam Atiq murder case.

Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury, chief coordinator of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Birth Centenary Celebration National Implementation Committee, yesterday urged the media to mark the countdown to the celebration in a festive, fair and creative manner.

Two people, including a minor, were killed on the spot after a tractor hit their motorcycle at Shathibari area in Rangpur’s Mithapukur upazila around 9:30am yesterday, said police.

A High Court bench yesterday observed that “Joy Bangla” was the only slogan at home and abroad during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.

There is nothing serious in Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi’s resignation remark, which he made amid criticisms over price of onion, said Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday.

Three major ridesharing service providing companies -- Uber Bangladesh, Pathao and Shohoz -- have received enlistment certificates from Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) to operate their service in the country.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) will not collect any trade licence fee from pharmacies that are entirely run by women, declared DNCC Mayor Atiqul Islam yesterday at a dialogue session with teenagers.

High Court has summoned director general of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) to appear before it on January 8 to know the progress about setting up Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Coronary Care Unit (CCU) at all district level hospitals.

The price of non-urea fertiliser, diammonium phosphate (DAP), has been reduced to Tk 16 from Tk 25 per kg.