Supriyo Chakravarty was a man of few words but he could articulate himself in a way that won people over, eminent personalities said yesterday.

A family of four, including two children, suffered serious burn injuries after an air conditioner caught fire in their house at Kathalbagan in the capital early yesterday.

Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh (HRPB), a rights organisation, has demanded that the government form a special tribunal for settling cases filed by Bangladeshi expatriates over their land and harassment.

Former National Human Rights Commission chairman Prof Mizanur Rahman yesterday criticised the government’s recent position on occurrence of enforced disappearance in the country before the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT).

A Rajshahi court yesterday denied bail to suspended Shahzadpur municipality mayor Halimul Haque Miru in a case filed for killing journalist Abdul Hakim Shimul.

Police will not allow cattle markets beside roads and highways in Chattogram district in a bid to avoid traffic gridlock ahead of Eid-ul-Azha.

Former officer-in-charge (OC) of Sonagazi Police Station Moazzem Hossain has further sought bail from the High Court in a case filed on charges of recording a statement of madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi and circulating the video clip on social media.

Kolkata Deputy Mayor Atin Ghosh suggests the Dhaka north city mayor to put importance in destroying the breeding grounds of Aedes mosquito instead of using insecticides to this end.

IT professional Ataur Rahman Shahin, who was allegedly abducted from the city’s Tejgaon area three months back, returns home.

Four people were killed in road accidents in two districts yesterday, according to reports from our correspondents.

A television journalist has been missing since Saturday evening from the city’s Gulshan area, days after receiving a threat.

A writ petition was filed with the High Court yesterday, to direct the government to take over Dhaka National Medical College (DNMC) and its hospital Dhaka National Medical Institute (DNMI) as a public medical college and hospital.

A number of youths who took to the streets last year for safe roads yesterday demanded that all cases against students be withdrawn immediately, and that culprits who had carried out attacks on protesters and journalists during the demonstrations be brought to book.

All long-route bus operators will spray mosquito repellent inside buses leaving Dhaka before Eid-ul-Azha.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reaffirmed her determination to build a hunger-and-poverty-free Sonar Bangla as dreamt by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

A man drowned yesterday after he jumped into a pond to escape police check in Rajshahi’s Chalkpara, said police.

A memorial meeting for Supriyo Chakravarty, a freedom fighter and husband of rights activist Sultana Kamal, will be held at Chhayanaut auditorium in Dhaka today.

To ensure that people with diabetes have access to proper care and knowledge on preventing non-communicable diseases, imams will be recruited as community health advocates.

Activists of Bangladesh Mahila Parishad (BMP) yesterday staged a sit-in protesting rise of rape incidents at an “alarming rate” across the country.

None of the family members of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia have applied to the government for her release from jail on parole, Barrister AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon, a lawyer for Khaleda and a BNP leader, said yesterday.