High Court yesterday issued a two-month injunction on the BTRC’s move to realise money it says Grameenphone owes the government.

A man has been cleared of the charges he had to fight for 17 long years in yet another instance of identity mix-up.

Three of a family died and three others were injured on their way home from hospital as the gas cylinder of an ambulance exploded in Chattogram’s Anwara upazila yesterday.

Tension flared up along the Charghat frontier in Rajshahi yesterday morning when the Border Guard Bangladesh tried to stop hilsa catching by some Indian fishermen inside the Bangladeshi side of the Padma.

Rohingya settlements have severely damaged biodiversity and over 8,000 acres of reserved forest in Cox’s Bazar. The damage is equivalent to a loss of over Tk 2,420 crore, said a report of the Environment, Forest and Climate Change Ministry.

While Abrar was being brutally beaten before his death, he repeatedly begged for some water to drink but was given even a drop, an accused in the case told journalists yesterday.

With the murder of Abrar Fahad fresh in everyone’s minds, agitating students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology yesterday took an oath to resist terrorism and communal forces on the campus.

The government has started the process of appointing administrators for Grameenphone and Robi to run the businesses, an unprecedented move in Bangladesh.

At least 25 people, including five cops, were injured when villagers protesting the death of a man in custody clashed with police in Rangpur’s Pirganj upazila yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday stressed the need for introducing education on traffic rules and regulations at the school level.

Most of the poor people in urban areas remain deprived of the government’s social protection benefits. Only 17.84 percent of the poor people living in towns and cities receive support from social safety schemes, whereas 35.77 percent of the poor people in rural areas get the benefits, according to a World Bank report.

Former Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat, an alleged kingpin of the illegal casino business in the capital, was placed on a 10-day remand in two cases filed under the arms and narcotics control acts.

Buet students protesting and demanding justice for Abrar Fahad yesterday called off their protests, but declared to boycott their academic activities until the authorities expel the students involved in the killing.

In the aftermath of the gruesome murder of Abrar Fahad last week, Buet Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Saiful Islam says he thinks he had no failure in handling the situation.

Bangladesh continues to witness decline in overseas jobs over the last two years amid unabated malpractices in recruitment process, falling demand in the Gulf countries and an absence of effective steps to explore new markets.

The image would shake anyone to the core. The description is so horrifying that reading it is not suitable for children or the faint-hearted.

A trio of Americans won the Nobel Economics Prize for their work in the fight against poverty, including Esther Duflo, the youngest-ever economics laureate and only the second woman to win the prize.

Mehedi Hasan Robein, just-expelled organising secretary of Buet Chhatra League, in his confessional statement said he first hit Abrar Fahad and then others joined in, leading to the murder on October 7.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said she has directed the law minister to look for a way to dispose of the Abrar Fahad murder case quickly. She said this to Abrar’s family members when they met her at the Gono Bhaban yesterday.

Construction work on two more metro rail lines will begin soon as the government aims to reduce traffic congestion and pollution in the capital.