Uber, the world's largest on-demand ridesharing company, marks three years of its operation in Bangladesh by launching “UberPOOL” in Dhaka.

A team of Roads and Highways Department (RHD) have been conducting a drive to evict illegal structures on both sides of the Dhaka-Aricha highway in Savar for the second day.

The gang-rape victim of Noakhali’s Subarnachar upazila yesterday alleged that she and her family members feel insecure as the perpetrators continue to threaten them.

Army Chief General Aziz Ahmed yesterday accorded reception to the gallantry award holding freedom fighters of Bangladesh Army at an event in Dhaka Cantonment, marking Armed Forces Day.

Train schedules for Sylhet-Dhaka and Sylhet-Chattogram routes have become irregular, reportedly due to foggy weather and loco masters resting for longer periods.

Rab in a drive yesterday arrested an alleged drug trader with one kilogramme of cocaine worth Tk 16 crore from port city’s Halishahar Boropole area.

The High Court Division of the Supreme Court yesterday extended for one year its earlier orders that granted bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in two separate defamation cases.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday filed a case accusing the former civil surgeon of Chattogram and six others on charge of misappropriating Tk 9.15 crore during the purchase of machinery for the 250-bed Chattogram General Hospital.

The cabinet yesterday approved in principle the draft of Bangladesh Maritime Zones Bill 2019, determining the maritime zones and incorporating the provision of death penalty in the case of killing during robbery and violence in the sea.

Asian universities should rethink how they can develop their graduates to fulfil the needs of the 21st century, said a visiting South Korean academician.

Transcom Beverages Ltd Sramik Karmachari Union recently organised “Family Day 2019” at the company’s Mouchak, Gazipur plant.

Speakers at a roundtable yesterday demanded establishing the country’s tea garden workers’ rights, including fixing Tk 260 as the minimum daily wage along with free accommodation and medical treatment facility.

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BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday alleged their party leaders and activists are being denied justice as the government has established its “control” over the judiciary.

Over thirty thousand workers of nine state-owned jute mills in Khulna-Jashore industrial belt demonstrated yesterday to press home their 11-point demand, including payment of due salary and implementation of a wage commission.

Counter-terrorism officials yesterday claimed to have arrested a top militant of the banned group Jamaa’tul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and two other operatives from the city’s Bhatara area.

Fifteen journalists were awarded “Media fellowship 2019” for reporting on population control and health issues at a programme yesterday.

Society must change the narrative of rape from blaming victims to holding perpetrators accountable for using rape as a means to exert power and dominance over women, said United Nations Resident Coordinator Mia Seppo yesterday.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday claimed the government took necessary preparations to execute Road Transport Act-2018, but did not enforce several sections of the act considering “the reality on the ground”.

A pilot project to make Dhaka city free from sound-pollution will begin from 17th December, Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Md Shahab Uddin says.