SM Nasif Shams, son of Pabna-1 lawmaker Samsul Haque Tuku, has sent a rejoinder to a report run by The Daily Star on March 15 under the headline “Land grabbing in Pabna: District admin to probe allegation against MP’s son”.

Eminent Rabindra Sangeet exponent and Ekushey Padak awardee Mita Huq passed away at 6:20 yesterday morning in the capital’s Bangladesh Specialized Hospital.

Eminent journalist Hasan Shahriar, former president of Jatiya Press Club, breathed his last at the ICU of Impulse Hospital in the capital around 11:45am yesterday.

Police on Friday night recovered 20 bullets which were snatched from a cop by some Hefajat-e-Islam activists in Brahmanbaria’s Nandanpur area on March 27.

Md Abul Hashem, a freedom fighter and an organiser of the Liberation War, passed away yesterday.

Three Swechchasebak League leaders from Chuadanga were arrested yesterday after being accused in a Digital Security Act case involving a local parliamentarian.

Ekushey Padak recipient and Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra artiste Indra Mohan Rajbongshi passed away yesterday at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital in the city after he tested positive for Covid-19.

Police and local administration officials yesterday said a vested quarter spread a rumour to agitate people with an aim to unleash mayhem in Faridpur’s Saltha upazila on Monday night.

A case was filed against Hefajat-e Islam Joint Secretary General Mamunul Haque and 16 others with the capital’s Paltan Model Police Station on Monday.

Remote-controlled Venus flytrap “robo-plants” and crops that tell farmers when they are hit by disease could become reality after scientists developed a high-tech system for communicating with vegetation.

A Dhaka court yesterday transferred a case filed under Digital Security Act against photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol to Dhaka Cyber Tribunal for trial.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday told parliament that the government wouldn’t tolerate arson and vandalism in the name of Islam.

Aslamul Hoque, the lawmaker of Dhaka-14, breathed his last at a city hospital yesterday. He was 61.

Terming media the mirror of the society, Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud has said multidimensional and democratic society suffer when the media does not play its role properly.

Jahanara Begum, wife of late Shah Alam Chowdhury, passed away at a hospital in Dhaka yesterday.

Railways ministry has changed a project director, who had halted payment to Hyundai Rotem Company (HRC) for supplying 10 locomotives to Bangladesh Railway breaching the contract, and posted him under a junior in his BCS batch.

Dhaka University teacher Samia Rahman yesterday sued some unknown people under the Digital Security Act for what she claimed was feeding a DU probe body false and fabricated information.

The Supreme Court yesterday stayed for four weeks a High Court verdict that granted bail to Erfan Salim, son of Dhaka-7 lawmaker Haji Md Salim, in a case filed over attacking a navy officer in October last year.

Namita Ghosh, the first female voice artiste of Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra, passed away at a city hospital on Friday night.

The recent strong criticism of the government by Jatiya Party has raised questions in the country’s political arena about its intentions.