Transparency in the relief activities during flood crisis

Moni Zaman, former media director of Interspeed, died on Friday following heart failure. She was 65, says a press release

Those who attack minority communities and spread communalism in the country are inhuman and unpatriotic, said former Dhaka University vice-chancellor Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique yesterday.

International Trademark Association (INTA) appointed Bangladesh Intellectual Property Forum’s (BIPF) founder, Barrister ABM Hamidul Mishbah, as a member to the INTA Emerging Issues Committee for the 2020-2021 term, said a press release.

Students of Jagannath University’s evening programmes cannot qualify as voters or candidates for the university’s Central Students’ Union election, authorities have said.

Students of Jahangirnagar University yesterday formed a human chain on campus, demanding punishment of a teacher who allegedly sexually harassed a female student of government and politics department.

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said his party will not take responsibility of wrongdoings of a few party men.

Two people were killed and two injured in road accidents during the last two days, according to reports from our correspondents.

The National Committee for Protection of Oil-Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports will stage divisional rallies, starting on October 4 in Sylhet, protesting a provision introduced by the government in the Offshore Model PSC-2019 that allows international oil companies to export gas.

Police yesterday arrested a youth for allegedly raping a female worker and capturing the crime on his cellphone, in Araihahazar upazila of Narayanganj.

A daylong seminar on human trafficking and safe migration was held at Asian University for Women (AUW) at Mehedibag in Chattogram city yesterday.

Hospitals outside Dhaka saw more patients taking admission than the capital in the last 24 hours till 8am yesterday, as some 278 out of the 360 dengue patients were from outside Dhaka, according to Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Traffic Division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in their simultaneous drives on the city streets on Friday filed 5,337 cases against different modes of vehicles for violating traffic rules.

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud yesterday said Bangladesh has set an example in the world by establishing inter-community coherence across the country.

After his secondary school certificate (SSC) exam, his poverty-stricken parents considered stopping his education or at best admit him to a local college in Joypurhaat.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Commissioner AFM Aminul Islam yesterday urged all -- including government, NGOs (non government organisations), civil society members and the media -- to work together to establish good governance in the country.

Despite the growing popularity of cycling as means of commuting, exercise and a recreational activity, even the most optimistic would not rank Dhaka as a cyclist-friendly city.

Victim families of a tragic 2003 launch accident in Meghna river are yet to get any compensation, nearly 28 months after the High Court directed authorities concerned for doing so.

The first-year honours admission test of “Cha” unit (drawing part) under the Fine Arts faculty of Dhaka University for 2019-20 academic sessions was held yesterday.

A general diary was filed yesterday as Sylhet city Mayor Ariful Haque Choudhury received death threats over phone call in the morning.