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.

A driver of a battery-run auto-rickshaw attacked a policeman in Rajshahi on Tuesday. He was angry at the seizure of his vehicle, Rajshahi Metropolitan Police said yesterday after interrogating him overnight.

A heightened conflict between India and Pakistan is dangerous not only for the Indian sub-continent, but also for the world, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says.

More than 150 birds of different species have been rescued from a market at Riazuddin Bazar in Chattogram city.

Mentioning that Awami League (AL) never believes in religious differences, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urges members of the Hindu community not to undermine themselves by saying minority.

Software companies must take membership of Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) to run business in the country.

Stocks have plunged below the 5,000 point-mark thanks to massive sell-off by both jittery retail and foreign investors.

A police constable is detained for allegedly trying to snatch Tk 10.5 lakh in Motijheel area of Dhaka.

High Court (HC) has stayed for three months a government circular for recruiting 143 officials to 18 posts including that of teacher and medical officer under a project of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal says the government will carry out anti-Aedes mosquito drives throughout the year to protect country’s people from the mosquito-borne deadly dengue disease.

An eighth grade student, who was diagnosed with dengue, has died at a private hospital in Dhaka.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina calls upon the country’s businesspersons to stay alert against the propaganda now being carried out against the government as this is ultimately affecting the businesses.

Customs intelligence officials arrest a couple with 30 gold bars, weighing around 3.5kg, from Dhaka’s Jatrabari area.

Students and teachers of Jahangirnagar University (JU) besiege the two administrative buildings for the second consecutive day protesting “corruption of the authorities” and “unplanned” development works which would endanger the biodiversity of the campus.

Dhaka has been ranked as the third worst liveable city in the world, while war-torn Damascus in Syria ranked the worst.

Leaders of the Awami League-led 14-party alliance yesterday demanded confiscating assets of all involved in the killing of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

At least five people were killed and three injured in road accidents across the country yesterday, according to reports from our correspondents and news agencies.

Another dengue patient died while undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Khulna yesterday morning, taking the death toll to 129.