Muslims across the country yesterday observed Jumatul Wida, the last Friday of Ramadan, with due religious zeal and reverence.

Right activists and leaders from various indigenous communities yesterday demanded immediate steps to stop illegal extraction of stone from natural waterbodies in Bandarban, and sand from rivers in Sherpur.

With Eid just around the corner, people are thronging shopping malls and roadside shops in Sylhet city to buy their desired items.

We take pictures every time we go on a trip. We take them as evidence that we have been to this place, perhaps with family, friends or a special person. We take them to remember beautiful views and unusual subjects. And we take them because inside us we are creative.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) yesterday demanded judicial probe into the role of police, especially that of former Sonagazi Police Station Officer-in-Charge Moazzem Hossain, in the brutal killing of madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi.

A yaba kingpin and two other drug peddlers are killed in separate “gunfights” with police and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members in Cox’s Bazar and Dinajpur.

The selection of chairman and members of the National Human Rights Commission has to be transparent, neutral and without political influence to ensure that it regains public confidence and plays its role as an independent statutory body.

Over a decade ago, Dhaka was introduced to the phenomenon of unlimited pizza and its faithful companion, the bottomless drink. The first and only time I have ever availed this offer was back in fifth grade. My mother, a dedicated pizza lover, took me to Pizza Hut on Satmasjid Road.

Dr Lutful Hassan, a professor of Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding at Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), has been appointed the vice-chancellor (VC) of the university for a four-year term, according to a gazette notification issued by the education ministry yesterday.

Obaidul Quader, convener of the cabinet committee to review the ninth wage board award for journalists and employees of newspapers and news agencies, yesterday said the wage board award will be announced by June.

Police arrested the prime accused in the murder case of sixteen-year-old Sahed Ahmed, who was killed in an attack allegedly carried out by some teenagers of a rival gang at Housing Estate area of Sylhet city in February.

A Sylhet court yesterday granted remand of a travel agent and his associate in connection with human trafficking which led to the tragedy at the Mediterranean Sea on May 10 this year that left scores of Bangladeshis dead.

The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) in a drive yesterday knocked down over 250 illegal structures on both sides of Dhamrai-Kaliakoir road in Angoirmore area of Dhamrai.

The case filed in connection with the murder of Nusrat Jahan Rafi was transferred to Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal yesterday morning.

Five people were killed in road accidents in two districts yesterday, according to reports from our correspondents.

Father of Maldivian model and medical student Raudha Athif slammed Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) yesterday for what he claimed the agency’s failure to bring to light the truth behind his daughter’s death.

The investigation agency of the International Crimes Tribunal yesterday claimed to have found evidence against three Feni men, including a former chairman of a private bank, over their alleged involvement in crimes committed during the Liberation War.

The May 26 bomb attack on a police van in Malibagh was carried out to attract donors’ attention to raise funds and grow fear among law enforcers, chief of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) said yesterday.

Right activists yesterday urged the government to exempt poor and marginalised fishermen from a 65-day ban on fishing at sea and pay each of them Tk 8,000 per month as compensation during the ban.

A female student, who passed the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination this year, is killed after a bus runs her over in Dhaka’s Farmgate area.