Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud yesterday said those found involved in corruption will not be spared.

Farmgate hardly requires an introduction. Every day, vehicles of various shapes and size stop haphazardly to pick up or drop off passengers in the area, while people remain busy walking in all directions or rushing through or shoving each other to go about their destinations.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said Awami League leaders themselves are now exposing that they are indulging in “corruption” and “plundering” public money.

At least five people were killed and three injured in road accidents across the country during the last two days, our correspondents and news agencies report.

With the slogan “Say no to drugs”, a bicycle rally was held in Mymensingh city yesterday.

Three unidentified bodies were found in Boral river of Rajshahi’s Charghat upazila yesterday.

Bangladesh is among the countries that showed “substantial progress” in reducing child or maternal mortality, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Raisul Huq Bahar consciously avoided all opportunities of making a fortune through corruption, which was rampant around him. He was truly an honest person, speakers said.

Journalist Maynul Haq Bulbul, who was arrested by plainclothes police from a hospital in Mirboxtula area on Thursday night, has secured bail after appearing before a Sylhet court.

Students of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University (BSMRSTU) in Gopalganj continued their protest for the third consecutive day on the campus yesterday, demanding resignation of the vice chancellor for his alleged involvement in corruption and irregularities.

While climate crisis remains a burning issue, not all is doom and gloom. There is hope in the form of children who have not been corrupted by mindless greed, who understand the simple logic that fewer trees mean accelerated and irreversible climate disaster.

SDGs 5 and 16: Gender Equality and Access to Justice

Two Bangladeshi siblings were killed and three passengers injured in a road crash in Mozambique on Thursday night.

Law enforcers detain some 20 to 25 people from a club in Chattogram city on suspicion that they were involved in gambling and drug abuse.

A student of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University in Gopalganj falls sick during the second day of a fast-unto-death demanding resignation of the university’s vice-chancellor for his alleged involvement in corruption and irregularities.

Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard have detained eight Myanmar citizens with two lakhs of yaba tablets from a boat in the Bay of Bengal in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) have detained Kalabagan Krira Chakra Club President Shafiqul Alam Feroz and his four associates from the club in capital Dhaka. Feroz is also a member of central executive committee of Krishak League.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves Dhaka for New York via Abu Dhabi on an eight-day official visit to the USA to attend the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

Jubo League has expelled its Dhaka South Organising Secretary Khalid Mahmud Bhuiyan, who was placed on remand in two cases yesterday, for his alleged involvement in unethical activities including breaching the party’s discipline.

Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) President Oli Ahmed demands immediate arrest of Jahangirnagar University Vice-Chancellor Prof Farzana Islam for her reported involvement in corruption and irregularities in a development project.