An unidentified criminal injures a security guard with a knife and attempts to rob the Rupali Bank at Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology.

The High Court yesterday withdrew its earlier order that asked authorities to keep the post of director general of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) vacant, set for promoting suspended Director Khandaker Enamul Basir.

Urban planners yesterday said authorities should introduce adequate alternatives to rickshaw as a mode of public transport before banning it from city thoroughfares.

With mild to moderate downpour continuing in the port city, a big chunk of a hill slid in Lalkhan Bazar area yesterday morning.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday stressed the need for taking prompt measures to make Islamic tourism a global business brand considering its huge potential since it witnesses 8.3 percent annual growth.

Every citizen of the country should come forward and work together for a cultural rejuvenation against the threats of communalism and militancy, said lawmaker and eminent media personality Asaduzzaman Noor on Wednesday.

A Dhaka court yesterday put the chairman of Aziz Cooperative Commerce and Finance Bank on two days’ remand, in a case filed in connection with embezzling Tk 16 lakh.

Bangladesh needs to focus further on unilateral efforts to tackle the maritime issues in the region centring Bay of Bengal in context of geo-political competition, speakers at a conference said yesterday.

A policewoman was found dead at her residence in the capital’s Motijheel area yesterday.

Md Altaf Hossain, 43, a regional manager of the non-profit organisation ASA in Shailokupa of Jhenidah, is suffering from guillain-barre syndrome (GBS).

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud yesterday said the Awami League government is ready to accept constructive criticism from any quarter.

At least six people were killed and four injured in road accidents across the country yesterday, according to reports from our correspondents and news agencies.

The University of Science and Technology of Chittagong (USTC)) yesterday expelled one of its students and suspended three others for one year, over the incident of pouring kerosene on a professor and attempting to light him on fire.

Rally demanding Rape Free Bangladesh

The Supreme Court will deliver its verdict any day on a review petition involving the dispute over the meaning and tenure of a convict’s life imprisonment.

A section of Dhaka University students yesterday formed a human chain, protesting remark of a senior official of Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock regarding the recent study on milk conducted by Pharmacy faculty.

A Supreme Court lawyer yesterday sent a legal notice to Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), seeking Tk 50 lakh as compensation for his wife, who has been diagnosed with dengue fever.

A group of miscreants yesterday attacked a team of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) during an eviction drive at Postogola along the Buriganga riverbank, leaving an executive magistrate and four members of the team injured.

Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday informed the parliament that a total of 8,848 Bangladeshi citizens are currently in jails and detention centres in 53 countries.

Journalists in Khulna submitted a memorandum to Khulna’s deputy commissioner (DC) yesterday seeking justice for journalist MA Jalil, who was allegedly framed in a narcotics case.