Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged scientists and researchers to work for the welfare of mankind, as evolution of research and science is inevitable for the country’s development.

Social media, as we know it, might be headed for a big change. In the world of texts, photos and videos, an old trick is making a silent, but stomping comeback – audio chat rooms.

On the sidewalks of a street in Chattogram early this morning, a pregnant woman was groaning because of labour pain.

The first set of metro train left the Port of Kobe in Japan today and is expected to reach Dhaka late next month.

Two persons were killed in separate road accidents in Dhaka’s Jatrabari and Khilkhet areas early this morning.

Nadira Kiron of ATN Bangla and Tanzim Anwar of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) have been elected president and general secretary for the new 13-member executive committee (2021-22) of Aviation and Tourism Journalists’ Forum of Bangladesh, said a release.

A Dhaka court yesterday asked ACC director and investigation officer Benjir Ahmed to appear before it for depositions on March 25 in connection with the money laundering case filed against former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and 10 others.

The High Court yesterday ordered the chief metropolitan magistrate of Barishal to conduct a judicial inquiry into the allegation of torture and death of an apprentice lawyer, Rejaul Karim Reja, in police custody on the night of January 3.

Police’s Detective Branch (DB) claimed to have arrested five members of a gang that embezzled bank loans by creating and using fake national identity (NID) cards, trade licences and TIN certificates.

An on-duty police personnel was stabbed by miscreants in Savar Municipality’s Anandapur area early yesterday.

Journalist Shaheen Reza Noor was laid to rest in Dhaka’s Martyred Intellectuals Graveyard yesterday. He was buried at 3:30pm after his namaz-e-janaza, his brother Zaheed Reza Noor confirmed to The Daily Star.

An ancient relic chamber has been discovered at Nateshwar village in Munshiganj district’s Tongibari upazila.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh yesterday said they are hopeful of controlling culex mosquitoes within the next two weeks.

The cost of constructing two buildings at the campus of Begum Rokeya University Rangpur (BRUR) doubled due to anomalies and violations by the vice chancellor (VC) and his associates, and the construction work could not be completed in the last three years, a probe body of University Grants Commission (UGC) has found.

AKM Raisul Huq Bahar was a guerilla freedom fighter. During the Liberation War, he took part in many operations in the port city and adjacent areas, playing a pivotal role in the region’s liberation.

A Dhaka court today rejected the bail petition of seven leftist student leaders and activists in connection with a case filed over assaulting policemen and preventing them from discharging their duties.

On the afternoon of March 3, 2018, renowned educationist and writer Dr Muhammed Zafar Iqbal was attacked by a youth with a knife at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (Sust) in Sylhet.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Housing and Public Works Ministry yesterday recommended planning a satellite city adjacent to the capital.

People of the Mro community need the right to live on their ancestral land maintaining their traditional lifestyle, not any five-star hotel, said speakers at a protest rally yesterday.

Distressed Children & Infants International (DCI) and Rights and Sight for Children (RSC), in partnership with Faraaz Hossain Foundation, organised a free eye screening camp at Sreekol Aziza Smriti High School in Pabna Sadar on Sunday, from 10am to 4pm, said a press release.