When Dhaka South City Corporation inaugurated the renovation work of Osmani Udyan in January 2018 with a promise to complete it by 10 months, it was hailed by residents.

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.

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

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.

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.

Suhana & Anis Ahmed Foundation (SAAF) has donated new medical equipment worth Tk 30 lakh to icddr,b to boost its effort in providing diarrhoeal disease and malnutrition treatment for free.