The High Court yesterday summoned Grameen Telecom Chairman Nobel Laureate Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus and its Managing Director Md Ashraful Hasan to virtually appear before it on March 16 to place explanation over not complying with its order to reinstate services of 38 employees to the organisation.

No case has been field yet in connection with the attack on Barishal University students by transport workers on Wednesday.

International Mother Language Day is a source of inspiration to build multicultural and inclusive societies where people of all races, faiths, languages and cultures will have respect and dignity, said ministers and academics said yesterday.

A strong global political commitment is needed to build partnership among the nations for ensuring universal access to Covid-19 vaccine, said Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen yesterday.

Applications for Dhaka University (DU) honors’ first year admission for the 2020-21 academic session will start from March 8 and will continue till March 31.

Nine people were killed in road accidents in five districts in a day yesterday, according to reports from our correspondents.In Bogura, three teenagers lost their lives as a motorcycle they were riding hit a milepost in Ekdala intersection area in Gobindaganj upazila.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has started a drive against signboards and nameplates in English instead of Bangla in the capital. As part of the drive, DNCC mobile courts yesterday fined 25 establishments Tk 1.67 lakh in Gulshan and Rampura areas.

Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday said the virtual court system has significantly reduced overcrowding in jails during the pandemic.

To mark the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the Institute of Paediatric Neuro disorder and Autism (IPNA) of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University organised a webinar for parents and caregivers of special children yesterday.

Three cases were filed in connection with the clash among transport workers, police and Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) workers on Wednesday, following an attempt to evict an illegal vehicle stand at Chowhatta-Amberkhana road in the city.

A three-year-old boy died and his sister suffered injuries after falling from a battery-run rickshaw in Dhaka’s South Banasree area this evening.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Shafiqul Islam said people without face masks will not be allowed to go to Central Shaheed Minar to pay homage to the Language Movement martyrs on February 21.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has started a drive against signboards and nameplates in English language instead of Bangla in the capital’s Rampura and Gulshan areas.

Three cases have been filed in connection with yesterday’s clash between transport workers and police, Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) staffers following attempt to evict an illegal microbus stand on Chowhatta-Amberkhana road in Sylhet.

A domestic worker sustained critical injury on her throat at her employer’s house in Dhaka’s Naya Paltan area this morning.

An unidentified person was killed on the spot after being run over by a Dhaka-bound train of Chitra Express at Khulna Railway Station this morning.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh yesterday said the water pumping stations they received from Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa), when the charge of canals was handed over, are out of order.

The death reference (lower court documents) of the case, in which eight ABT men was sentenced to death for killing publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan, has reached the High Court Division.

Sylhet city’s Chowhatta and Dargah Gate areas witnessed violence for an hour yesterday, as transport workers clashed with police and Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) workers, following an attempt to evict an illegal microbus stand.

Planning Minister MA Mannan yesterday said that country’s first ever metro rail will start running from Uttara to Agargaon in Dhaka from Victory Day (December 16) this year.