Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday said the government is not interfering in the functions of the judiciary as well as other independent institutions.

The country’s budget is dependent on value-added tax (VAT) that directly affects the middle-income and poor groups, said eminent citizens at a post-budget discussion yesterday.

The Vitamin A plus campaign will be observed across the country today, with an aim to feed all children, aged between six months and five years, Vitamin A capsules under the nationwide event.

In a rare precedence, two people of an organised ring involved in stealing infants have been found guilty in court and handed down the highest punishment -- life imprisonment -- under the Prevention and Suppression of Human Trafficking Act, 2012.

Seventeen of the 64 Bangladeshi migrants, who had been stranded in the Mediterranean off the Tunisian coast of Zarzis for nearly three weeks, return home.

Two children die as a boat capsizes in the Buriganga river in Dhaka’s Sadarghat area.

The 5th International Day of Yoga (IDY) is celebrated by the Indian High Commission with around 7,000 people doing Yoga together at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka.

A new committee of Sangbadpatra Sebi Bohumukhi Samabaya Samity Ltd has been formed, says a press release.

Marking International Surfing Day, multiplex company Star Cineplex yesterday announced its first venture into film production with a unique feature film, based on the life of a surfer in Cox’s Bazar.

Khulna Shipyard Limited, the state-owned ship construction and repair yard, has handed over three inshore patrol vessels to Bangladesh Coast Guard.

Four journalists of The Daily Star yesterday received the IED Indigenous Affairs Journalist Award-2019 for their outstanding reporting on “Ethnic minority communities or indigenous people” between August 2018 to April 2019.

Police have recovered the floating body of an unidentified girl, aged around 18, from Turag river at Birulia area of Savar on the outskirts of the capital yesterday.

Amnesty International (AI) yesterday called upon the international community, including states and donors, to draw attention to the quality of education and increase support for Rohingya refugee children in Bangladesh, so that they do not become a lost generation.

At least three people were killed in road accidents across the country yesterday, according to reports from our correspondents.

A Chattogram court yesterday sentenced two persons to different terms of imprisonment for raping a schoolgirl after abducting her in the port city in 2007.

European Union has announced a fund of 18 million euros to help build resilience among Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi host communities.

In a big boost to bilateral cooperation, India on Tuesday announced its decision to show state-owned Bangladesh TV World (BTV World) on Doordarshan Free Dish, which will be available for the viewers in India.

Miscreants stabbed a police informant to death in Chattogram’s Mailer Matha area yesterday.

In separate incidents, two prisoners in Chattogram died yesterday due to illness.

A BNP leader of Chattogram’s Chandanaish upazila filed a case accusing 20 to 30 people including the party’s city unit president Shahadat Hossain and joint general secretary Gazi Siraj Ullah for vandalising his residence in port city’s KB Aman Ali Road area early yesterday.