A former union parishad chairman in Brahmanbaria died on November 2 last year, but documents placed before a district court show he “gave statement” to a police officer as a witness in a murder case nearly three months after his death.

Dhaka South Jubo League President Ismail Hossain Samrat has allegedly dug himself in at his office in Kakrail to avert arrest and is desperately looking for ways to leave the country, his party men told The Daily Star yesterday.

It apparently took Motijheel police years to even be aware of four illegal casinos which were operating in the very same block as the area’s police station.

A Rohingya couple was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Cox’s Bazar yesterday, hours after they were detained by the law enforcers.

Two people, including a prime accused in a murder case, were killed in separate “gunfights” with police in Chattogram and Laxmipur early yesterday.

Two Jubo League leaders were arrested in Kushtia on Friday night, hours after they were sued in an extortion case by a local contractor.

Skipper Shakib Al Hasan led from the front and remained unbeaten on a match-winning 70 as Bangladesh finally managed to break the Afghanistan hoodoo, registering a four-wicket win in the tri-nation T20I series in Chattogram yesterday.

Financial anomalies involving Tk 11,710 crore have been detected in 16 ministries between the fiscal years 2013-18 during audits by the Office of Comptroller and Auditor General.

SM Golam Kibria Shamim was accused of tender manipulation, extortion, and running drugs and gambling rackets in one of the three cases filed against him yesterday.

The country’s rivers and canals in sixty districts are in distress with at least 45,148 grabbers identified, according to official lists so far prepared by the respective deputy commissioners and submitted to the National River Conservation Commission.

The deplorable conditions of the rivers around Dhaka city and elsewhere in the country due to encroachment and pollution are the result of inaction of the river custodians and their complicity with the grabbers for decades, National River Conservation Commission Chairman Muzibur Rahman Howlader has said.

Students demonstrating for the resignation of the vice chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University (BSMRSTU) in Gopalganj were attacked yesterday.

The Chattogram leg of the ongoing T20I tri-series will come to an end with Bangladesh taking on familiar foes Afghanistan in a dead rubber at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium today.

Members of a syndicate were using a house in Chittagong’s Hamzarbagh to make forged national identity cards for Rohingyas, police said yesterday.

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has launched a survey in seven districts to measure the density of Aedes mosquito there.

SM Golam Kibria Shamim changed his political identity multiple times in the last two decades and used his political clout to expand his business as a contractor.

Jubo League yesterday expelled its Dhaka South Organising Secretary Khaled Mahmud Bhuiyan, who was arrested for running a casino, for breaching the organisation’s discipline and his involvement in anti-social activities, said a press release of the organisation.

Rab members yesterday arrested SM Golam Kibria Shamim, a top government-listed contractor who is known to be a Jubo League leader, on charges of extortion and tender business.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has hinted at even tougher action against party men indulging in corruption and misdeeds.

The government is now equipped to monitor, block or filter online contents, including those on social media.