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.

People from all walks of life -- including those from the government, political parties and civil society -- need to work together relentlessly to curb corruption, said the outgoing chairperson of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Iqbal Mahmood yesterday.

A Rangpur court yesterday sentenced a man to life-term imprisonment for raping an underage girl in the district’s Pirgachha Upazila, 13 years ago.

BNP senior leaders yesterday apologised to their party chairperson Khaleda Zia for their failure to wage a strong movement or take any step for her release from jail over the last three years.

Around one and a half years back, Hasan Sikder, a village farmer, got introduced to Sheikh Selim alias Shuvo, who introduced himself as an official of the army.

A woman died after a brick chip fell on her from an under-construction building in Dhaka’s Jatrabari area this morning.

A group of examinees, who failed the written test of 40th BCS exam, yesterday demanded re-evaluation of the result as over 1000 examinees have raised question over it.

A woman and her two children were killed and another person was injured when a speeding bus while overtaking a truck hit an auto-rickshaw carrying them at Mirpur Kalachand intersection in Sadar upazila of Sirajganj yesterday, reports our Pabna correspondent.

Ensuring equality between men and women both in public and private spheres can bring about sustainable peace and security, foreign diplomats and civil society members have said.

Turkish Ambassador to Bangladesh Mustafa Osman Turan yesterday said the only solution to Rohingya crisis is their repatriation to their place of origin in Myanmar.

Mass inoculation against Covid-19 that began across the country yesterday drew warm response from different sections of people.

Md Tazul Islam, additional secretary of Primary and Mass Education Ministry, has been appointed as the chairman of Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation.

Nurul Alam Chowdhury, former DMD of Mercantile Bank Limited, passed away early yesterday at a hospital in Dhaka. He was 74.

He was 87 years old.

Maldives Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid is coming on a three-day visit to Dhaka today as the two countries are working to strengthen bilateral relations.

The High Court yesterday directed the government to take appropriate legal action against the people responsible for cutting Molangi hillock in Moulavibazar’s Kulaura area to construct a road.

The Department of Environment yesterday fined four brick kilns TK 22 lakh in Savar for running their businesses without clearance certificates and permission.

A man was sentenced to life term imprisonment yesterday for raping his seven-year-old daughter in the capital’s Hazaribagh area in April 2018.

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader yesterday said corruption is growing in Bangladesh due to lack of a democratic system.

Nirapad Sarak Chai yesterday protested and condemned the alleged threat of boycotting its chairman Ilias Kanchan by transport leader and lawmaker Shajahan Khan.