Opposition Jatiya Party yesterday lawmakers criticised the government over corruption in the financial sector.

Warning that outsiders present in polling centres and the city will be dealt with strictly, Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) Commissioner Saleh Mohammed Tanvir yesterday requested city dwellers to carry their National Identity Card (NID) on Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) election day.

Some 32 percent of respondents of a nationwide survey have said they will take Covid-19 vaccines at the very beginning of the countrywide inoculation, set to start in February.

Mizanur Rahman Khan is a symbol of honest, brave and objective journalism, said speakers at a commemoration meeting yesterday.

After a year of closure due to the coronavirus outbreak, the provost committee of Dhaka University (DU) has finally recommended opening residential halls by the first week of March for its final-year and last-semester examinees at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) Commissioner Saleh Mohammed Tanvir today requested city dwellers to carry their National Identity Card (NID) cards on the day of city elections.

A contempt of court petition was filed with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today against Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Atiqul Islam and six others on charge of conducting an eviction drive in Dhaka’s Mirpur-11 ignoring its chamber judge’s order of status quo on the eviction.

Chattogram City Corporation, considered to be a lifeline of the country’s economy also happens to be the third largest among 12 city corporations in the country in terms of voters. Dubbed as the commercial capital of Bangladesh, the port city has more than 19 lakh voters.

Stern actions will be taken if anyone tries to ruin election atmosphere during tomorrow’s Chattagram City Corporation polls, Returning Officer of the election Mohammad Hasanuzzaman said today.

Police arrested a private university student from Dhaka on charge of raping a student of another university in October last year and blackmailing her for months afterwards.

The Holy Cross Brothers, a society of Catholic Church in Bangladesh, are setting up a school and college in Rajshahi city.

Police yesterday exhumed the body of 13-year-old Nodi Akter, six months after her death at Saudi Arabia, and three months after the burial at the capital’s Khilgaon graveyard.

An elderly man was arrested by Rajshahi police yesterday on charges of sexual assault.

The High Court yesterday cleared the lower court concerned to continue the trial proceedings against Partha Gopal Banik, a suspended deputy inspector general (prisons) of Sylhet division, in a case filed over recovery of Tk 80 lakh from his residence in Dhaka.

Two school students from Faridpur were among five dead in road accidents across the country yesterday.

Jatiya Party lawmaker Mujibul Haque yesterday proposed that the president, prime minister, members of cabinet and members of parliament should take the Covid-19 vaccine to dispel public apprehension.

Speakers at a discussion yesterday urged the government to take necessary steps for reopening schools in the capital’s slum areas where a large number of children were enrolled.

An Indian national was arrested at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Sunday night while trying to board a UK-bound flight with a fake visa.

By nature, a city councillor’s job is not that attractive. On paper, elected councillors may enjoy some local repute but have little power to exercise. All they get to do is sign certificates and monitor civic services like waste management and street light maintenance in wards.

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