He was denied bail six times and finally passed away last night before he could ever walk free.

In his famous book titled “The Old Man and The Sea”, US writer Ernest Hemingway said, “But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

The Chinese contractor for the Padma Bridge Rail Link Project yesterday alleged that it has not been paid for work done in the last seven months and this was slowing down work.

Dhaka University authorities have decided to hold all ongoing and previously announced exams of its seven affiliated colleges in the wake of student protests.

A man, who was killed in an alleged gunfight with Rab-10 in Dhaka’s Keraniganj on Friday, was the driver of a truck that ran over and killed a Rab member in Mymensingh’s Bhaluka on February 14.

A union parishad member was shot dead inside the Baghaichhari upazila office in Rangamati yesterday.

He was a journalist, turned writer, turned columnist, turned public intellectual -- meaning he devoted all his intellectual and physical abilities to promoting public causes.

It was their daily routine to try to reach him over the phone, after Sadman Sakib Rafi went missing on January 13 this year.

The health ministry has started to work on a plan to include university teachers and students in the inoculation campaign to comply with a government decision.

Rab yesterday arrested a fugitive convict in the August 21 grenade attack case who hurled bombs at the Awami League rally on Bangabandhu Avenue in 2004.

Two new project proposals, including one on the operation and maintenance of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA), will be placed at a high-level meeting between representatives of Bangladesh and Japan today and there will be discussion whether those can be implemented under public private partnership (PPP).

Protesting the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, Syed Abul Maksud started boycotting stitched clothes. Since then he wore two pieces of white cloth.

The High Court yesterday came down heavily on a section of Bangladesh Bank officials over their alleged links with financial scams involving People’s Leasing and Financial Services Ltd (PLFSL), a non-bank financial institution.

Aiming to developing a solid relationship with the world’s most powerful country, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen left for the US last night on a three-day visit, his first visit after President Joe Biden took office in January.

Chattogram Customs House and Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) officials recovered 150 gold bars, weighing 17.5kg and valued at Tk 9.5 crores, from a Biman plane that landed at Shah Amanat International Airport yesterday morning from Abu Dhabi.

The Anti-Corruption Commission has begun enquiring into allegations of laundering about Tk 64,000 crore ($755 million) annually by some garment factory owners in the guise of export and import business.

Twenty lakh doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from Serum Institute of India reached the country early today, which is less than half of the monthly supply installment as per a contract.

The seat of independent lawmaker Mohammad Shahid Islam, also known as Kazi Papul, has been vacated yesterday on grounds of moral turpitude.

Calls for immediate reopening of residential halls of universities got louder as students of various public universities took to the streets to press home their demand, while Jahangirnagar University students refused to leave their dorms.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday instructed the education ministry to review whether educational institutions, which have been closed since March 17 last year due to the pandemic, could be reopened.