President M Abdul Hamid urges people of all religions to maintain the country’s existing communal harmony to attain national development and progress.

Two people are killed in separate road accidents in Rampura and Jatrabari areas of Dhaka.

Terming the steps taken by the government to curb dengue outbreak in the country as “ineffective and show-off”, a pro-environment organisation demands for it to take effective measures against the mosquito-borne disease by integrating people from all sectors.

Md Shahidu-llah Tipu, former referee of FIFA, has died from a cardiac arrest at Feni Heart Foundation. He was 68, says a press release.

The railways ministry has directed the authorities concerned to intensify efforts to stop people from travelling on trains roofs, terming it a major reason behind fatalities and slowing down of trains during Eid rush.

A convicted BNP activist, who was sentenced to life-term imprisonment for attacking a train carrying then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina in 1994, died yesterday at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital.

The combing operation to nab Aedes mosquito at its larvae stage can very well be described as scenes from dystopian fiction. Then again, citizens are not machines farming insects for their sustenance, and the government is not an oppositional category. In a fight

Police yesterday recovered the body of an imam of a mosque at Mallickpara area under Sonargoan upazila.

Officials of Chattogram regional passport office yesterday detained two persons including a Rohingya woman, while she was trying to obtain a Bangladeshi passport through fake documents.

A Chattogram court yesterday placed a man -- who was arrested on August 18 -- on remand, in a case filed over rape of a 16-year-old girl in the city’s Bayzid Bostami area.

A mobile court in Chattogram during a drive yesterday sentenced a helper to four months of imprisonment on the charge of molesting four female passengers in a bus.

A piece of surgical thread and a needle -- that had been left inside the body of a woman during delivery at Rangpur Medical College Hospital (RMCH), were removed two days later yesterday.

Dengue patients are facing acute shortage of beds at Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH) in Barishal.

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The High Court yesterday issued a rule seeking explanations from the authorities concerned as to why a Dhaka University student -- whose left side was paralysed due to wrong treatment at a private hospital -- will not be compensated with Tk 5 crore.

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mohammad Javed Patwary yesterday directed police officials to be alert so that no innocent person falls victim to harassment.

Speakers at a discussion yesterday demanded forming a national slum commission to ensure permanent housing project for the low-income people, and investigate causes behind slum fires.

People with visual disabilities, students, and others participated at a demonstration yesterday at Abahani playground in Dhanmondi, with the slogan “We are not as blind as you are”.

The government is considering forming a taskforce to curb road accidents and bring discipline to the transport sector, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said yesterday.

Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Iqbal Mahmood yesterday warned its officials that no irregularity, nepotism, partiality and laxity will be tolerated in investigation into any complaint.