A police informant was stabbed to death in the capital’s Rampura area early yesterday.

Twenty-five eminent personalities in a joint statement yesterday expressed their concern over and condemned the death threats against three renowned citizens of the country.

“Failure is the pillar of success” has come to reality in Shitol Sarker’s life.

CAMPUSES ABUZZ WITH JOY

A rights group yesterday served a legal notice to authorities concerned asking them to seize or withdraw substandard food products from markets in Bangladesh within 24 hours.

More than one thousand workers of a garment factory in Chattogram city yesterday morning surrounded BGMEA Bhaban for two hours as the owners had suddenly closed the factory without paying outstanding salaries and other benefits.

Bangladesh is observing United Nations (UN) Global Road Safety Week for the first time with the slogan “Save lives, speak up” -- aiming to generate awareness for curbing road accidents, which has become a major concern.

A Dhaka court yesterday granted bail to SMHI Faruque, the land owner of FR Tower in Banani, in connection with a case filed over the fire at the high-rise building that killed 26 people on March 28.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines’ management will be overhauled within two months, and the national carrier will no longer remain a losing concern, Civil Aviation and Tourism Ministry Secretary Mohibul Haque said yesterday.

Declaring the sponsoring of TV news and headlines illegal, the High Court yesterday directed that broadcast of news and headlines sponsored by different organisations cannot continue after August 31 this year.

Robbers shot a man to death in Chattogram yesterday.

Top police officials yesterday urged the media to be careful in their coverage of terrorism, so that terrorists are not even inadvertently portrayed as heroes.

Terming the claim of Islamic State (IS) presence in Bangladesh a part of an international conspiracy, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan categorically says there is no existence of IS group in the country.

Workers at Burn and Plastic Surgery at Dhaka Medical College Hospital continue their sit-in programme and work abstention for the second consecutive day.

Jatiya Party (JP) Acting Chairman GM Quader says that he wants to bring a qualitative change in the party politics instead of establishing the reign of totalitarianism.

The Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) fixes the prices of beef at Tk 525 and buffalo at Tk 480 for the holy Ramadan, which are Tk 75 and Tk 60 higher respectively than the last year’s prices.

A Dhaka Court grants bail to SMHI Faruque, the land owner of FR Tower in Banani, in connection with a case filed over the fire at the high-rise building that killed 26 people on March 28.

Journalists will hold a sit-in programme across the country on May 15 to put pressure on the government for implementing their four-point demand including issuance of gazette notification for the ninth wage board before Eid-ul-Fitr.

An informant of police is stabbed to death in Dhaka’s Rampura area.

Violence against women gets overlooked or not perceived as electoral violence because of the normalisation of gender-based violence and ignorance among electoral stakeholders, speakers at a roundtable said yesterday.