A Dhaka court sentences four youths to life in jail for killing a college student of Madaripur Government Nazimuddin University College in March 2013.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina informs the parliament that her government has a plan to bring all citizens under national health insurance coverage for ensuring health service.

The Supreme Court (SC) chamber judge upholds a High Court verdict that declared illegal the government circulars and gazette notifications fixing the minimum age of freedom fighters at 12 and a half years in 1971.

Students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) continue their protest for the fifth consecutive day to press home their 16-point demand including cancellation of the new recruitment order of director of student's welfare.

A special committee led by Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon has been formed to remove illegal vehicles off the streets and free footpaths from grabbers in next two months.

Ten persons have been handed two-year jail terms each for producing poultry feed using leather waste treated with toxic chemicals.

A fire that broke out on the ground floor of the Baitul Mukarram market in Dhaka was completely doused after around 40 minutes of frantic efforts.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to invest in Bangladesh’s economic zones for mutual benefits.

Strong measures have to be taken to realise defaulted loans and control scope for whitening black money and siphoning off those abroad, demanded lawmakers yesterday.

Ministry of Women and Children Affairs is inviting applications for Rokeya Padak-2019. The government introduced the award in 1995 named after Begum Rokeya, a pioneer of women’s emancipation movement in the undivided Bengal.

A part of the Dhaka Elevated Expressway -- stretching from from Airport to Moghbazar -- will be opened by December 2020 after the second phase of public-private partnership project (PPP) is completed, said Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday.

The High Court yesterday summoned a forensic doctor, who examined the health of a rape victim in Rangpur, to appear before it for making “unusual” delay in preparing the health report in connection with the rape case.

Students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) continued their agitation for the fourth straight day yesterday, to press home their 16-point demand including infrastructural development of residential halls.

An assistant sub-inspector of Digholia Police Station has been suspended over losing his pistol and twelve rounds of ammunition while on duty for Dumuria upazila polls in Khulna.

Members of the cultural fraternity gathered at the Bangla Academy yesterday, to pay tribute to a beloved colleague and convey respects to his departed soul.

A mobile court during a drive at South Patenga Bijoy Nagar area in the port city on Monday sentenced a person impersonating as a doctor to six months of imprisonment and fined him Tk 1,00,000.

The post-deprived faction of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) yesterday submitted a memorandum to the prime minister to press home their four-point demand, including dropping controversial leaders from central committee and replacing them with leaders who did not get posts.

Mobile courts of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority yesterday jailed a transport worker for one month, filed 43 cases against vehicle owners and fined them over Tk 1 lakh during drives to bring discipline to traffic in Chattogram city.

The proposed coal-fired power plant adjacent to the Sundarbans will not do any harm to the world’s largest mangrove forest, claimed Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Md Shahab Uddin yesterday.

Bangladesh Chhatra Union’s Jahangirnagar University unit yesterday demanded scrapping two revised sub-sections of the “controversial” disciplinary code.