The World Bank and Bangladesh yesterday signed a $200 million financing agreement, to help 3.6 million people access hygienic sanitation facilities and about 600,000 people access clean water in rural areas.

Members of the hijra community have started an Al-Quran learning centre in Mymensingh city, the first of its kind in Mymensingh division.

Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh ITO Naoki yesterday inaugurated a training course at Bangladesh-Korea Technical Training Centre (BKTTC) for returnee women migrant workers, who were forced to come back to Bangladesh when the pandemic broke out last year.

The High Court yesterday (Tuesday) issued an order of status quo regarding the termination of three teachers of Khulna University (KU).

A court in Chattogram placed six constables of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) on two-day remand. They were arrested on Sunday for extorting money from a businessman.

Police officials in Chattogram have expressed their concern as they said Rohingyas have been renting houses in different areas of port city as well as upazilas hiding their identities and getting involved in various criminal activities.

Seventy percent complaints of residents of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) that were filed through “Sobar Dhaka” smartphone app were solved in the last month.

Conservancy workers yesterday threatened to go on a strike if their contractual recruitment through tender is not cancelled and the approval of the waste management firms that hired them is not renewed in a week.

A few days ago, commuters would come across a boy, aged around nine to 10, selling cigarettes and betel leaves from a heavy metal box suspended from his shoulders, on the roads near the capital’s Mugda Medical College and Hospital.

Today is the 13th death anniversary of Prof Khaleda Akhtar Banu, an organiser of Liberation War and former chairperson of Bangla department of Abudharr Ghifari University College, says a press release.

A Chattogram court today granted two-day remand for six members of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) arrested in a case for abducting a man from Anowara and extorting money and threatening to kill him.

Admission seekers can apply for entry tests for the 2020-21 academic session at Rajshahi University through online from March 7, said a press release from the university’s public relations office today.

Cleaners have threatened to stop waste collection from households in Dhaka North City Corporation area if their demands are not met within the next seven days.

Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) has decided to issue permits for as many as 4,000 new CNG-run auto-rickshaws in Chattogram once it completes scrapping an equal number of old three-wheeler public transport vehicles that provide last-mile connectivity in the port city.

Today marks the third death anniversary of Sultan Ara Khan. She was wife of Shafiul Alam Khan, a retired employee of Karnaphuli Paper Mills Ltd in Chattogram.

A Dhaka court yesterday adjourned hearing on charge framing against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and nine others in Niko graft case till February 16.

A Dhaka tribunal yesterday deferred to February 18 for hearing on the probe report submitted by police clearing Mohammad Erfan Salim, son of Awami League leader and lawmaker Haji Mohammad Salim, from an arms case.

A case was filed accusing around 35 people in connection with the murder of Savar schoolboy Rohanul Islam Rohan on Sunday, and two accused yesterday gave confessional statements to a Dhaka court.

Russel Sarker, who lost his leg after a Green Line Paribahan bus ran him over around three years ago, has been given Tk 10 lakh more in compensation, in line with a High Court directive.

The High Court has set February 22 for hearing the rule that questioned legality of the parliamentary membership of Mohammad Shahid Islam alias Kazi Papul for providing false information to the Election Commission through his affidavit.