Police has no intentions of realising fines if there is discipline on the roads, Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Shafiqul Islam said yesterday.

Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday said two lawyers will be included in the prosecution team for conducting the Buet student Abrar Fahad murder case, as per his family’s wish.

The High Court on December 5 will deliver its verdict on a writ petition filed seeking its directives so that voluntary donors beyond certain relatives can donate kidneys.

Chiefs of army, naval and air staff yesterday called on President Abdul Hamid on the occasion of Armed Forces Day at Bangabhaban.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will be a special guest as India take on Bangladesh in the historic pink-ball Test match that begins in Kolkata tomorrow.

The High Court has questioned legality of the expulsion of children from ongoing Primary Education Completion (PEC) and its madrasa equivalent Ebtedayee terminal examinations.

Inter-district bus services come to a halt as transport workers decided to keep their vehicles parked at Mohakhali bus terminal in Dhaka fearing harassment by their fellow workers who are protesting enforcement of the Road Transport Ac-2018.

Noakhali residents Md Ismail (30), Md Yusuf (30) and Md Rakib (28), came to port city in early November in search of work.

Police busted a firearm-making den, arrested a man and seized 17 locally made guns and gun-making materials in Raozan upazila of Chattogram early yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will attend the 25th UN Climate Change Conference, to be held in Madrid, Spain next month.

The High Court yesterday ordered doctors concerned to write post-mortem reports in clear hand-writing, and to add a typed copy with the report, so that it can be read easily.

An investigation into the leasing of a tea garden in Moulvibazar -- which was approved by the land ministry -- should be initiated immediately as it was mired in irregularities, rights activists demanded yesterday.

The High Court yesterday gave two months’ time to Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to complete further investigation of Sagira Morshed Salam murder case, filed 30 years back.

Zareef Ahmed, son of Hasneen Ahmed and Farruque Ahmed, born September 17, 1991, passed away on Monday (November 18).

The High Court yesterday stayed trial proceedings of a case filed against actor Quazi Nawshaba Ahmed -- under the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act -- for allegedly spreading rumours on social media during last year’s student protests for safe roads.

The capital city development regulator Rajuk is going to develop a 9,000-acre compact township on the west bank of the river Turag, with a view to conserve flood flow zones and wetlands along the riverbank in the city’s outskirts.

Begum Sufia Kamal’s thoughts and ideologies were ahead of her time, and she will continue to inspire all those who work for women’s rights in the country, speakers at a memorial said yesterday.

Amid big excitement by small entrepreneurs, curtains dropped on the weeklong Unnayan Mela-2019 at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) yesterday.

If the Teesta river water-sharing deal is clinched, it will dramatically change the relationship between Bangladesh and India, according to Bangladesh’s High Commissioner to India Syed Muazzem Ali. He said since Bangladesh is largely agrarian, and the northern part of the country is a water-scarce region, it is important that the Teesta deal is reached as early as possible.

A Dhaka court will deliver its verdict on November 28 in a case filed against suspended officer-in-charge of Sonagazi Police Station Moazzem Hossain, over circulating a video clip of Feni madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi, in which he asked her humiliating questions.