A Tk 1,653 crore proposed project for repairing and upgrading roads along with other key infrastructure in Rangpur city has been stalled for the past 18 months, leaving most of the city’s streets nearly unusable.

Snaps from court to street

Every morning, hundreds of schoolchildren from Puthikhali union in Bagerhat’s Morrelganj upazila cross a fragile wooden bridge in Vatkhali to attend classes, each step feeling like a gamble with their safety.

Workers and employees of the Ashuganj Fertiliser and Chemical Company Limited in Brahmanbaria yesterday held a demonstration to press home their demand for an uninterrupted gas supply to resume urea production at the plant.

A mother and her son were stabbed to death in Cumilla’s Adarsha Sadar upazila yesterday.

The Russian Navy ship Gremyashchy yesterday arrived at Chattogram Port on a five-day goodwill visit to Bangladesh.

Jafar Howlader, 55, a former union parishad chairman and local Awami League leader, died at Patuakhali General Hospital yesterday after suddenly falling ill inside the Patuakhali District Jail, prison authorities said.

At least 21 leaders and activists of the Awami League, currently banned from political activities, were arrested in special drives across Narayanganj over the past 36 hours, as of 6:00am yesterday.

Chittagong University, one of the country’s leading institutions for higher education, marks its 60th founding anniversary today.

The United Nations said yesterday that former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s sentencing for crimes against humanity marked “an important moment for victims”, but stressed that she should not have been given the death penalty.

A mother and her son were stabbed to death in Cumilla’s Adarsha Sadar upazila yesterday.

With the onset of winter, advance room bookings in resorts and cottages have increased in the Sajek tourist centre of Rangamati’s Baghaichari upazila.

At least three dengue patients died, while 1,007 others were hospitalised, in the last 24 hours till yesterday morning.

Hasina is additionally facing three more ICT cases

The capital yesterday saw light traffic as it waited for the International Crimes Tribunal’s verdict in a case involving deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina.

The Election Commission yesterday resumed its electoral dialogue, meeting 11 more registered political parties as part of its consultations for the polls scheduled for February next year.

Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal has announced its panel for the first-ever Jagannath University Central Students’ Union election, scheduled for December 22.

Columnist and poet Farhad Mazhar yesterday said the July uprising has reminded the nation of a fundamental truth: all power belongs to the people, and neither the state nor parliament has any authority to take away their rights or livelihood.

Demands security for lower court judges, their families

Deceased was vice-president of JCD's union unit in Barishal