Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday warned that the government will not tolerate any kind of extortion at the city’s Karwan Bazar.

A workshop on “The method of collecting data on violence” was held at Center for Genocide Studies (CGS) seminar hall at Dhaka University yesterday.

Although 12 ridesharing service providing companies got approval of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) till yesterday, only two received enlistment certificate.

Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukder has expressed disappointment over his speech about the election in Kanchan municipality being excluded from minutes of the 50th meeting of the Election Commission.

The eighth edition of “Promoting Knowledge” contest was launched yesterday through a ceremony at the auditorium of Institute of Modern Languages (IML) of Dhaka University.

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of youths who took to the streets last year for safe roads yesterday demanded that all cases against students be withdrawn immediately, and that culprits who had carried out attacks on protesters and journalists during the demonstrations be brought to book.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

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is going to India in October this year to improve further the bilateral relations between the two friendly neighbours.

None of the members of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s family and her relatives has applied to the government for her release from jail on parole, says Barrister AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon, a lawyer for Khaleda and a BNP leader.

Two girls, including a student of Eden Women College, die of dengue fever in Dhaka.

The traffic lawbreakers from now will be able to pay fines by using their debit or credit cards on the spot.

The bus owners’ association ask all the bus operators to use mosquito spray inside their vehicle before leaving Dhaka with Eid holidaymakers.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) begins an investigation whether there had been any corruption in procuring the mosquito insecticides by Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC).

The number of dengue patients is increasing across the country as 1,870 more new people are hospitalised with the deadly-mosquito borne disease in 24 hours till 8:00 am.

The wife of a senior police official died of dengue fever at a hospital in Dhaka.

Police recovered the floating body of an unidentified man, aged around 30, from Brahmaputra river in Kalagachia area of Narayanganj’s Bandar upazila yesterday noon.