Opposition Chief Whip and Jatiya Party lawmaker Mashiur Rahman Ranga last night in parliament sought unconditional apology for making derogatory remarks over Noor Hossain.

Umme Shahara Bari, 83, passed away yesterday at the capital’s Anwer Khan Modern Medical College Hospital.

Marketable skills development is the key to employment and improving living conditions of the climate migrants and urban poor, said experts and high officials at a seminar in the capital yesterday.

Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmed yesterday said at the parliament said the labour market in Malaysia will open to Bangladesh soon.

Shakhawat Hossain (52) has been bedridden for the last three months, due to a surgery on his left toe on August 19 this year. A week before the surgery, he had an injury in the toe caused by a treenail. As he is a diabetic patient, since 2014, medication did not work on the injury and there was no option other than surgery.

A man was killed and two were injured in a clash between two groups of Awami League in Rajshahi yesterday, allegedly over tender-related issues.

Wealth creation in the region must be for all in line with “fair distribution and competition”, instead of geo-strategic or political rivalry, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said yesterday.

Four family members, including three children, were killed and two injured after a pick-up van hit the battery-run rickshaw-van carrying them at Baghat Bazar area in Madhukhali upazila of Faridpur around 6pm on Tuesday, said police, quoting locals.

Online ticketing service provider Shohoz.com has shared sensitive data of registrants wishing to attend the three-day Dhaka International Folk Fest (DIFF) with a third party, causing uproar on social media.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) rescued a 10-year-old girl from Dakshin Surma upazila in Sylhet on Tuesday night, who was kidnapped from Gazipur on October 31 and raped by the abductors.

President Abdul Hamid yesterday said Bangladesh will provide all sorts of assistance to Nepal to implement its “Happy, Prosperous Nepal” programme.

Five admission seekers and a student of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (Sust) were detained by the university authority on Tuesday for cheating during the admission process.

For the first time, World Kindness Day was observed in Bangladesh yesterday. It is a day that encourages individuals to overlook boundaries, race and religion.

Police early yesterday filed a case against 150 unknown persons in connection with a clash between two groups of Jubo League during a rally in port city’s Laldighi area on Tuesday.

Awami League (AL) general secretary and minister for Road Communications and Bridges Obaidul Quader yesterday in Chattogram said the party does not need “polluted blood” and it will have to removed from the party.

Officials of Counter Terrorism (CT) unit of Chattogram Metropolitan Police yesterday arrested two more staff members of the Election Commission, in a case filed over National Identity (NID) scam involving Rohingyas.

After 27 days since a break-in at the home-slash-studio of eminent Japan-based Bangladeshi artist Dr Kazi Ghiyasuddin in Savar, police has not yet been able to identify or arrest any of the culprits.

Police arrested three youths on charge of raping a 16-year-old girl from a local arbitration organised by a union parishad chairman on Tuesday night in Patiya upazila of Chattogram.

Mediation and Restorative Dialogue in Education

Parliament unanimously adopts a motion declaring a “planetary emergency” on account of existential crisis of climate changes and making a call to the global community to act urgently and decisively in achieving the net zero (carbon) emissions well before 2050.