Three people died after drinking local liquor in Barishal city in 24 hours till yesterday afternoon.

Today is the 148th birth anniversary of Abdul Karim Sahityabisharad, a pioneer researcher, author and collector of medieval Bangla literature, says a press release.

The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined a steel mill in the port city Tk 4.86 lakh for air pollution.

The country’s educational atmosphere is being ruined as Bangladesh Chhatra League is “committing barbarous acts” at educational institutions, alleged leaders of Chattogram BNP yesterday.

Police arrested four more people in connection with the killing of college student Shawon Bhattacharya. Twenty-year-old Shawon, a student of Mymensingh Commerce College, was stabbed to death at Gulpukurpar in Mymensingh city on Tuesday night.

A child and a woman were killed, and 10 injured after a bus fell into a roadside ditch in Sonarbangla Bazar area of Betagi upazila in Barguna around 11:30am yesterday.

Demanding Justice for Abrar

Rahgir Al Mahi Saad, son of Jatiya Party founder HM Ershad, yesterday took oath as a Jatiya Party lawmaker from Rangpur-3. Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury administered the oath at her parliament office. Jatiya Sangsad Senior Secretary Jafar Ahmed Khan moderated the function.

Some 12,764 women are detected with breast cancer in the country every year and 6,844 of them die of the disease, according to a report of International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).

Bangladesh and India, who share one of the longest land borders in the world, have agreed to share “real-time intelligence information” and involve their common neighbour Myanmar to stop drug trafficking on their frontiers.

Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday said the killing of Buet student Abrar Fahad for exercising freedom of expression is an onslaught on the constitution.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) yesterday called upon the government to free all student organisations and educational institutions in the country -- including Buet -- from party politics.

Although the number of hospital admissions from dengue are coming down steadily, the death toll continues to tick up.

Teachers and students of Rajshahi University (RU) staged separate demonstrations on the campus yesterday, demanding removal of the university’s vice chancellor and pro-vice chancellor.

The murder of Abrar Fahad is an outcome of apathy and inaction of Buet administration in holding offenders accountable for their acts of repression, the Teachers’ Association of the university has said.

The Dhaka stocks continue to bleed to its three years’ low due to the thin participation of institutional investors.

Ifti Mosharraf Sakal, one of the key accused of Abrar Fahad murder case, confesses that he along with other BCL men tortured Abrar that led to his death.

Police recover bodies of a man, his wife and son from an apartment in Dhaka’s Mirpur. The deceased were identified as Bayezid, 45, a businessman, his wife Anjana, 40, and son Farhan, 16, a first-year student of Mirpur Commerce College.

Education Minister Dipu Moni says she is deeply saddened, shocked and ashamed over the murder of Buet student Abrar Fahad, who was brutally killed allegedly by Bangladesh Chhatra League.

Students who are appearing in masters examination will have to leave their dormitories within fifteen days of completion of their exams, announce the authorities of Dhaka University.