The High Court yesterday observed that the government and both Dhaka city corporations cannot avoid liability in failure to purchase effective insecticides on time to kill Aedes mosquitoes.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claims to have arrested a fraud who used to impersonate as a government high-up to extort money from other officials.

Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque says the government will provide digital identity cards to the freedom fighters before the next Victory Day.

An alleged mugger has stabbed a ride-sharing biker to death and snatched away his motorcycle in Dhaka’s Malibagh area.

A Dhaka court has asked for reports on death of former Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad, who was an accused in Maj Gen Abu Manzur murder case.

The 11th convocation of Rajshahi University (RU) will be held on November 30 this year.

Deputy commissioner of Wari Zone of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has been suspended.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines will start its flight operation to Madina from Dhaka on October 28 this year.

Jatiya Ainjibi Oikyafront (JAO), a forum of pro-BNP lawyers, demands to the authorities concerned to take necessary steps through Supreme Judicial Council against all kinds of corruption from the judiciary.

The High Court yesterday scrapped three letters issued by Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), asking Grameenphone to pay Tk 30 crore of fine for providing broadband internet services under Go Broadband.

A Dhaka court yesterday accepted charges brought against two women over murder of former Eden Mohila College principal Mahfuza Chowdhury Parvin in February.

Former Inspector General (IG) of Prisons Brig Gen Syed Iftekhar Uddin has shouldered the responsibility for failing to check corruption of his subordinate officials during his tenure.

The rate of disposing cases by the Appellate and High Court Divisions of the Supreme Court has increased, but disposal of cases by the lower courts has declined in comparison to the number of cases filed in recent months.

Sheikh Maqsood Ali, former CSP doctor of 1959 batch, passed away at United Hospital in the capital yesterday. He was 85, says a press release.

North South University held a discussion, marking the 44th death anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, on its Bashundhara campus in Dhaka yesterday, says a press release.

Motiur Rahman Talukder and Khairul Islam were reelected as president and secretary general respectively in the central election of Bangladesh Newspaper Workers’ Federation held on Saturday at its central office in Dhaka’s Tikatuli, said a press release.

Focusing on infrastructural and service development, Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) Mayor Ariful Haque Choudhury yesterday declared Tk 789.38 crore budget for the 2019-20 fiscal year.

Agitated students of Jahangirnagar University (JU) yesterday staged a demonstration on campus, protesting what they termed “ongoing unplanned development”, corruption, and endangering bio-diversity.

In the last few years, Dhaka has consistently ranked as one of the least liveable cities in the world, and while there are many reasons behind that, there is one that does not get enough attention: noise pollution.

National Awami Party (NAP) chief Prof Muzaffar Ahmed was laid to rest with state honour at his village home in Debidwar upazila of Cumilla yesterday.