Two people including a female staff of a private company are killed in separate road accidents in Banani and Turag areas of Dhaka.

ICT division and Bangladesh Freelancer Development Society has taken an initiative to create database of the country’s freelancers and provide them a digital card, called as ‘Free ID’ which they can use for banking activity and other formal uses.

The government decides that the students of classes I, II and III will not have to sit for any examination from 2021 academic year.

A high-profile probe committee of the government has not found any “logical reason” to accuse Joint Secretary Md Abdus Sabur Mondal for the death of 13-year-old Titash Ghosh in an ambulance on a ferry on the way to Dhaka on July 25.

IDP Education Bangladesh will host a study abroad event at The Westin Hotel in Dhaka.

A cabin crew is held along with 10 kilogrammes of gold at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

A murder accused is killed in a reported gunfight with the law enforcers in Khulshi area of Chattogram hours after he surrendered to police.

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Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) officials arrested an elderly couple with 30 gold bars -- weighing around 3.5kg -- from the city’s Jatrabari area yesterday morning.

The High Court yesterday stayed for three months a government circular issued for recruiting 143 officials to 18 posts, including that of teacher and medical official, under a project of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Asian Development Bank (ADB) will fund the expansion of the country’s four highways into four lanes, Road Transport and Highways Division said yesterday.

Pakistani Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi phoned his Bangladesh counterpart Dr AK Abdul Momen on Tuesday to discuss the current situation in Indian-occupied Kashmir.

A heightened conflict between India and Pakistan is dangerous not only for the Indian subcontinent but also for the world, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said yesterday.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs yesterday approved around Tk 5.32 crore to purchase fogger machines, sprays and insecticide to control Aedes mosquitoes -- the carrier of dengue and chikungunya viruses.

Two RMG factories were shut down for indefinite period yesterday, following an ongoing protest over dismissal of 58 workers. Workers alleged that Eske Clothing Ltd and Naba Knit Composite Ltd in Ashulia industrial belt area sacked 28 and 30 workers respectively on August 29, without any valid reason.

Students and teachers of Jahangirnagar University (JU) besieged the two administrative buildings for the second consecutive day yesterday, protesting alleged corruption of the authorities and unplanned development work which they say would endanger the biodiversity of the campus.

A platform of transport owners and workers threatened to go for an indefinite strike unless authorities concerned take steps to stop harassment and extortion by law enforcers within three days.

Eminent jurist Dr Shahdeen Malik yesterday said the state’s “power of violence” has increased, and its mindless application has been evident in the past three to four years.

At least two people were killed and 18 injured in road accidents across the country yesterday, according to our correspondents.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-7), in separate drives, arrested three persons and seized 70,070 yaba pills from them in Chattogram yesterday.