The High Court yesterday ruled that “Joy Bangla” slogan must be used at the beginning and end of all state programmes, including Victory Day and Independence Day.

The protesting teachers and students of Jahangirnagar University yesterday unveiled a book detailing the allegations of corruption against the vice-chancellor.

Rohingyas demand Myanmar be held to account at the United Nations’ top court in The Hague, where Myanmar leader and Nobel peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is set to defend the country against charges of genocide of the minority community.

Human rights campaigners supporting Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority yesterday called for a global boycott of the country, a day before genocide hearings begin at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

A four-and-a-half-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her neighbour in Faridpur Sadar upazila on Sunday.

Russia was banned from the world’s top sporting events for four years yesterday, including the next summer and winter Olympics and the 2022 soccer World Cup, for tampering with doping tests.

The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) yesterday launched an eviction drive to remove all structures of the illegal river port on the bank of Hurasagar river at Brishalikha in Pabna’s Bera upazila.

The government is going to publish the names of 11,000 Razakars who had been on Pakistan payroll and collaborated with the Pakistan occupation army in mass killings and carrying out atrocities against freedom fighters during the Liberation War.

President Abdul Hamid yesterday said commercial courses were turning public universities into business organisations and this was disrupting the atmosphere on the campus.

About 28,000 Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia are still facing uncertainty over returning home within the December 31 amnesty deadline due to the high price of air tickets and a shortage of flights, said sources at the expatriates’ welfare ministry.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged all to remain alert to all forms of repression on women, saying that enacting laws was not enough to end the menace.

Fearing defeat, Lt Gen Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi tries to plot an escape but BBC leaks his plan. To conceal his weakness, he goes to Hotel Intercontinental and asks, “Where are the international journalists? I want them to know that I will never leave my army behind.”

The High Court yesterday directed Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) to immediately remove the personal and confidential photographs of media personality Rafiath Rashid Mithila and director Iftekhar Ahmed Fahmi from all news portals as well as social media.

Police yesterday arrested a man in connection with the murder of his six-month-pregnant wife and two children in Rangpur city.

At least 43 people were killed yesterday in a devastating fire that ripped through a bag factory in the cramped, congested old quarter of the Indian capital New Delhi, trapping scores of workers who were sleeping inside.

At least 50 people, including five policemen, were injured in a sporadic clash between supporters of the Awami League and the BNP on EB road in Sirajganj town yesterday.

In the absence of its chairperson, Khaleda Zia, the unity within the BNP is almost in tatters, with some leaders tendering their resignation over growing differences with the top brass.

The move was bananas... or maybe the work was just too appealing.

A Pirojpur court yesterday sent two people to jail in connection with torturing two boys over alleged theft on Saturday.

Vibrant rows of neatly lined plants grow on a patch once trampled by the cattle of a large commercial farm run by a family of German descent in Namibia.