Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University (BSMRSTU) authorities yesterday expelled five students for attacking their peers who staged demonstration demanding the university vice chancellor’s removal on September 21.

Gender diverse populations, including the Hijra community, are vulnerable to discrimination, stigmatisation and social persecution in the country’s conservative society, speakers at a discussion said yesterday.

Former Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Samrat, an alleged kingpin of the illegal casino business in the capital, was placed on a six-day remand yesterday in a case filed over amassing illegal wealth.

The High Court yesterday deferred for a week the hearing of a writ petition, challenging alleged manipulation of the first information report (FIR) of workers’ leader Nurul Islam murder case in Rajshahi.

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In the wake of newspaper reports, Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumdar yesterday said there should not be any problem over the price of rice.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday arrested a former general manager of Bangladesh Development Bank Ltd (BDBL) in connection with a case filed over misappropriating about Tk 174 crore of the bank.

The political views of Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani are essential for political parties of Bangladesh to follow, considering the current context, speakers said at a discussion yesterday.

A four-year-old child was run over by a covered van in the capital’s Mirpur area yesterday morning.

CNG-run auto-rickshaw workers threaten to go for a 48-hour strike from November 28 to press home their nine-point demands including registration of 5,000 auto-rickshaws in Dhaka and 4,000 in Chattogram cities.

The explosion that killed seven people at a building in Chattogram city takes place when an inmate was lighting candle by match at a room on the ground floor.

Former textiles and jute minister Abdul Latif Siddique gets released from jail after the Supreme Court upheld his bail in a corruption case.

Jatiya Oikyafront seeks permission of prison authorities to meet BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia now undergoing treatment at Bangabandhu Sheik Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in Dhaka.

Boeing and Biman Bangladesh Airlines (Biman) announce that the national carrier is expanding its 787 Dreamliner fleet with two additional airplanes valued at $585 million at list prices.

Verdict in Holey Artisan Cafe attack case will be delivered by a Dhaka court on November 27 as arguments conclude.

The High Court (HC) has directed Department of Environment (DoE) to shut 27 dying factories and private hospitals, which have no environmental clearance certificates, near Shyampur and Postogola on the bank of Buriganga river in 15 days.

The Chattogram Development Authority has said the building, which was partly blown off in a “gas line explosion” did not maintain the Building Code during its construction.

The Supreme Court (SC) has upheld a High Court order that granted bail to former textiles and jute minister Abdul Latif Siddique in a corruption case, clearing the way for him to walk out of jail.

BNP seeks a copy of the agreements the government signed recently with India.

A four-year-old child is run over by a covered van in the capital’s Mirpur area.