Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday arrested a top official of a medical equipment supply company in connection with a case filed over misappropriating around Tk 4.49 crore from a procurement project of Rangpur Medical College (RMC).

A Dhaka court yesterday placed alleged online gambling ringleader Salim Prodhan on a five-day remand, in connection with a money laundering case.

The Supreme Court yesterday ordered the owner of Sajan Paribahan to give Tk 10 lakh in a month to the brothers of Rajib Hossain, a college student who died last year after his right arm got stuck between two buses and got severed.

A tribunal in Dhaka yesterday summoned the investigation officer, the last witness in the Holey Artisan café attack case, to appear before it on October 17 to narrate what he found in his probe.

Education is the backbone of a nation, but teachers and guardians have induced such a competitive situation that students are under serious and constant pressure.

Rab yesterday arrested two suspected members of banned militant outfit JMB from a madrasa in Fatullah.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said she wants to prepare Bangladesh so it can face any sort of disaster -- manmade or natural.

Social and political platforms continued their protests demanding capital punishment for the killers of Buet student Abrar Fahad. Nagorik Andolon Mancha’s Satkhira unit formed a human chain in front of the Press Club of the city.

Police yesterday foiled a “civic mourning rally” brought out by Jatiya Oikyafront in the city, protesting the killing of Buet student Abrar Fahad.

Awami League wants to present the countrymen a new model of a smart, modern and clean political party through its national council scheduled in December, the ruling party’s General Secretary Obaidul Quader said in Rajshahi yesterday.

Today marks the 15th death anniversary of engineer and an organiser of Khelaghor, Hasan Raimum Wahab, son of Abdul Wahab Miah.

A group of leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League’s (BCL) Kushtia Islamic University (IU) unit yesterday ousted its president Robiul Islam Polash from the campus, over allegations that he bribed the erstwhile BCL central leadership to get the post.

A woman was killed and her son injured after a pick-up hit their rickshaw in the capital’s Sadarghat yesterday.

Father of Abrar murder accused Meftahul Islam Zion has denied his son’s involvement in the killing.

Khondokar Mahmud Parvez, chairman of International Relations (IR) department of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University (BSMRSTU) resigned from his post yesterday amid student protests.

Discontent and panic have gripped officers who hail from Chattogram district -- at different levels of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) -- after an order issued by the deputy commissioner (headquarters) of CMP to make a list of “Chittagonian officers” for transfer.

The Distressed Children & Infants International (DCI), and Rights and Sight for Children (RSC) have set up internet connection in computer lab of SunChild Home orphanage in partnership with BRACNet.

Labaid Cardiac Hospital has received an international accreditation for maintaining standards in healthcare services, said a press release yesterday.

Eminent rights activists yesterday termed the killing of Abrar Fahad a vicious attack on freedom of speech, and said the government and university administration cannot avoid its responsibilities.

An alleged extortionist is killed in a reported gunfight with the members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Agrabad area of Chattogram city.