BNP yesterday alleged that incidents of killing, rape and other crimes have seen a sharp rise, due to a serious slide in law and order situation.

Muktijuddho Moncho -- a platform comprising descendants of freedom fighters -- yesterday continued their protest against Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader regarding his remark on membership of the party.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain yesterday said judges and lawyers should have good idea about country’s commercial laws and latest development.

At least 126 people were killed by lightning strikes across Bangladesh in May and June this year, according to data compiled by a non-government organisation.

Speakers at a conference yesterday said the state has to take responsibility in ensuring that the youth of the nation are not derailing into extremism and militancy.

Officials of the government’s “One House, One Farm” project yesterday demanded regularisation of their jobs at Palli Sanchay Bank, in line with law.

The 41st death anniversary of Abdul Gafur, former director (finance and revenue) of BTCL, will be observed today, says a press release.

A conference titled “Quadrangulated Quandary” was held at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) in Dhaka on Thursday.

Six people were killed and four injured in road accidents in four districts yesterday, according to reports from our correspondents.

Delivery of goods from the Chattogram Port remained suspended for 20 hours until yesterday afternoon as a server update of National Board of Revenue (NBR) was underway.

Experts at a conference in Rajshahi yesterday suggested speedy mechanisation and commercialisation of agriculture to ensure fair prices of agricultural products in Barind region, one of the country’s crop producing areas, where they observed a trend of decreasing number of agriculture-dependent people due to low prices of crops.

Nursing college students boycotted classes, examinations and clinical practice in two districts yesterday, to press home a four-point demand, including transformation of their four-year BSc-in-nursing programme to a distinct one.

Rural Development Forum marking 40 years of Cirdap

Terming drugs a major obstacle to building a healthy society, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mohammad Javed Patwary yesterday urged meritorious young people to come forward to lead the movement against it.

Speakers at a conference say the state has to take responsibility of ensuring that the youths do not get derailed by extremism and militancy.

Sounding a note of warning against the grabbing of city’s river banks, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says all illegal occupants of the river banks will be brought to justice.

Two more roads of the Dhaka city will be made off-limits to rickshaws from tomorrow to improve the traffic situation.

Gonoforum will stage demonstration across the country on Tuesday protesting the gas price hike and the national budget for the 2019-20 fiscal.

A seven-year-old child, whose body has been found in an under-construction building at Dhaka’s Wari, was raped before murder, doctor says after autopsy.

Law enforcers claim to have arrested two accused in a case filed on charge of raping a 20-year-old ready-made garment worker in Chattogram’s Anwara upazila.