With residents of Sylhet eagerly waiting for the Covid-19 vaccine, the authorities concerned are struggling to ensure a smooth vaccination campaign.

Qulkhwani of Aminur Rahman, a former deputy inspector general of prisons, will be held today.

A Supreme Court lawyer has served a legal notice on the government, requesting it not to reopen the educational institutions until the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic is completely over.

Two people were killed in road accidents in two districts on Wednesday, according to reports from our correspondents.

A daylong event titled “Rohingya: City on the Hill” was held at the Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) on its Bashundhara campus in Dhaka on Wednesday.

Jahangirnagar University (JU) authorities have suspended 10 students from all academic activities for a year and another for two years after they were found guilty of ragging a first-year student and beating him till he lost consciousness.

A five-member selection committee has been formed to fill up the posts of two commissioners of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

A Chattogram court today placed BNP-backed councilor candidate Ismail Hossain Bali in the Chattogram City Corporation polls on a one-day remand in connection with a case filed over vandalising two EVM machines at a polling centre during yesterday’s election.

A ten-year-old boy was killed today after an auto-rickshaw hit his bicycle in Dhaka’s Hazaribagh area.

Three Dhaka University teachers have been demoted on charge of plagiarism in their research papers.

Terming the latest Chattogram City Corporation election a model of polls irregularities, Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukder said the authorities concerned need to find a way out to hold future elections in a more fair and credible manner.

Mayor-elect to Chattogram City Corporation Rezaul Karim Chowdhury today said the polls were held in a “free and fair environment” except for a few isolated incidents.

None of the BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami supported councilor candidates won in any of the 41 general and 14 reserved wards in yesterday’s Chattogram City Corporation election.

Bangladesh Civil Society for Migrants yesterday urged the government to develop a common guideline for case evaluation of migrant workers whom host countries have sent back involuntarily.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday informed the parliament that about 1.67 crore people, from around 20 different sectors of the country, will receive Covid-19 vaccine on a priority basis.

The family of the youth who died in gunfight between supporters of two councillor candidates alleged that the miscreants used police’s firearms to shoot the victim.

The Chattogram City Corporation polls yesterday stirred up a heated debate in the country’s political arena, with BNP alleging that the election was marred by “unprecedented vote robbery” and “violence”.

The Civil Courts (Amendment) Bill, 2021 was passed in Parliament yesterday with a provision to raise the financial jurisdiction of lower court judges for disposal of civil cases.

The High Court yesterday refused to grant bail to Erfan Salim, son of Dhaka-7 lawmaker Haji Salim, in a case filed on charge of attacking Lt Wasif Ahmed Khan of Bangladesh Navy in Dhanmondi area of Dhaka in October last year.

A video editor of Ekattor TV was killed after a bus of Victor Classic Paribahan hit his motorcycle and dragged his body for some distance near Jamuna Future Park on the capital’s Pragati Sarani yesterday afternoon.