Brac yesterday launched some new features on its official website (http://www.brac.net) to help persons with disabilities -- particularly who are visually impaired -- to access the site easily.

International Literacy Day was observed across the country yesterday, under the theme “Literacy and Multilingualism”.

Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) yesterday detained a man allegedly involved in releasing 22 consignments from Chattogram port through user IDs of two former officials of Chattogram Customs House (CCH).

Speakers at a roundtable yesterday said a taskforce should be formed to monitor disbursement of the government’s climate budget.

A construction worker died after a wall collapsed on him in Khulna city’s Newsprint Mill area yesterday.

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader hands over a letter to speaker of the parliament requesting her to appoint Raushan Ershad as leader of the opposition in the House.

Biswajit Chanda, a teacher of Law & Land Administration department at Rajshahi University, has been recognised as the best professor for his outstanding performance in Land Administration Studies.

The Ministry of Home Affairs opposes a proposal to include Battalion Ansar in anti-drug drives saying that the force is not a “law enforcement agency”.

The government is going to amend the Companies Act, 1994 incorporating a provision for establishing company by a single person and a new section titled as “One Person Company” will be included in the amended law.

Education Minister Dipu Moni hopes that all public universities would introduce a uniform admission test system by next year.

A Supreme Court lawyer files a writ petition with the High Court challenging legality of appointments of 70 deputy attorney generals (DAGs) and 105 assistant attorney generals (AAGs).

An exciting boat race has been held on the Kaliganga river at Balirtek area in Manikganj Sadar.

Finally a ray of hope for the “Bostami turtles”, a species previously declared extinct in the wild by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), as a group of specialists have successfully hatched 36 eggs in an incubator last month.

Bangladesh Atomic Energy Regulatory Authority (BAERA) Chairman Prof Naiyyum Choudhury passed away yesterday. He was 74.

Ruling Awami League lawmaker from Narayanganj-4 Shamim Osman yesterday urged local administration not to “play with fire”.

The number of Bangladeshi students obtaining higher education in the United States doubled in five years, showed EducationUSA data.

A mobile court sentenced a fake doctor to two months of imprisonment during a drive in Halishahar Shapla Residential Area in the port city yesterday.

A man was arrested yesterday on the charge of raping his nephew’s wife in Dacope upazila of Khulna the day before.

Stating that there is no quick fix to the Rohingya crisis, former deputy secretary general of the United Nations Lord George Mark Malloch Brown yesterday urged the international community to put pressure on Myanmar to resolve the issue.

Two people were killed in road accidents during the last two days across districts, according to reports by our correspondents.