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.

A Rajshahi court yesterday acquitted all 34 students of Rajshahi University who were accused in a case for demonstrating against increased monthly fees and commercial evening courses in February 2014. In a case filed with Motihar Police Station, Sub-inspector Masudar Rahman of the same police station accused 45 student leaders and 150 other unnamed students for blasting crude bombs and injuring 25 students during the demonstrations.

A two-day conference, attended by ministers and officials of 31 countries, will begin in the capital today to discuss ways of best promoting sustainable development of blue economy among the nations bordering Indian Ocean.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday sought bail from the High Court for the second time in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case, in which she has been sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment by a lower court.

Two students of Barishal University were sent to jail by a local court yesterday, for allegedly circulating obscene videos of their classmates on social media.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan yesterday told the High Court that Khandaker Enamul Basir, a suspended director of the ACC, has completely ruined the image of the commission by taking Tk 40 lakh as bribe from suspended deputy inspector general (DIG) of police Mizanur Rahman.

Some 39 admission seekers will compete for each seat in the first-year admission test under 2019-2020 academic session of Dhaka University (DU).

Bangladeshi writer and researcher Dr Numair Atif Choudhury’s only novel “Babu Bangladesh!” has been shortlisted for this year’s Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize, which aims to celebrate literature from South Asia.

At first sight, it appeared that young women in burn dressing were roaming the street, handing out leaflets to pedestrians, rickshaw-pullers, CNG-run auto rickshaw and car drivers. It harked back to the tragic fate of Feni madrasa student Nusrat. The women were also wearing signs featuring Nusrat’s statements made in her final days.

Feud among the top brass of Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (Baira) has apparently turned toxic -- something that became obvious at a meeting yesterday.

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller yesterday said Myanmar needs to take action so that Rohingyas can return to their homeland.

Indiscriminate sand lifting from the Bongshi river in Bashna area of Dhamrai upazila is posing a threat to nearby farmlands and homesteads, escalating the risk of river erosion.

Outgoing Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia has been appointed as chief executive officer of National Security Affairs Cell under the Cabinet Division.

Bangladesh Bank has urged the social media users to refrain from using pictures of any unauthorised note in Facebook or other social media.

‘She Loves Tech’, a Beijing-based startup competition focused on women and technology, has been held at the ICT Division in Dhaka.

A man is crushed under the wheels of a train at Karwan Bazar in capital Dhaka.

An unidentified attacker stabs a police constable and snatches away his helmet in Bhatapara area of Rajshahi city this afternoon.

Rahgir Al Mahi alias Saad Ershad, the eldest son of late Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad, buys the party’s nomination form to contest the Rangpur-3 by-polls that fell vacant following his father’s death.