The government is planning to build a new diplomatic zone in Dhaka’s Purbachal area due to a shortage of land in Gulshan and Baridhara diplomatic zones, said Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday.

Supporters of a ward-level ruling party leader in Barishal on Wednesday night blocked a highway, shut down bus and launch services for over three hours.

With the Covid-19 pandemic having severe impact on the media industry at large in Bangladesh, the future will be “digital-first”, experts of the field said at a programme yesterday.

A writ petition was filed with the High Court yesterday, seeking its directive on the government to reopen all educational institutions, including schools and colleges, immediately, considering the present situation.

Officials of Dhaka North City Corporation faced obstruction from locals while conducting an eviction drive in Mirpur section 11, block-C yesterday.

WhatsApp is being criticised globally for its security issues and forced to delay the enforcement of its newest privacy policy. This resulted in a rise of non-mainstream apps like Signal, Telegram and Line to rise up. Among these, BiP seems to have caught on with Bangladeshi netizens.

A domestic help who tortured an elderly woman and fled with cash and valuables on Monday from her employer’s house in the capital was arrested yesterday.

Police have arrested driver of a local Awami League leader with a stolen motorcycle in Ashulia of Savar.

Deputy Attorney General Debashish Bhattacharyya has resigned from his office.

Department of Environment yesterday launched a Tk 47.98 crore project to control noise pollution, which will be implemented in the next three years.

Alhaj Rafique Uddin Bhuiyan, former president of Bangladesh Human Rights Commission (Narayanganj district) and son of late Gul Baksh Bhuiyan, has passed away on Monday. He was 67.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said that government is planning to set up a new diplomatic zone at Purbachal in Dhaka due to shortage of land in Gulshan and Baridhara diplomatic zone.

Officials of Dhaka North City Corporation faced obstruction when they were conducting an eviction drive in Mirpur section 11, block-C today.

The domestic help who brutally tortured an elderly woman and fled with cash and valuables on Monday from her employer’s Malibagh house was arrested early today.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed a driver of Ajmeri Glory Paribahan on a one-day remand in a case filed over the death of a couple in the capital’s Airport area.

On June 15, 2017, a section of a clay wall crashed and fell on 18-year-old Sabina Yeasmin, paralysing her from the waist down. The incident happened just when she was about to sit for her HSC exams, and set her education back by two whole years.

A 23-year-old Bangladeshi youth, also a student at Malaysia’s Asia Pacific University (APU), has been missing for a week since he left his home in the capital’s Bashundhara Residential area on January 13.

The High Court yesterday directed Aslam Shikder, a former programme producer of private TV channel ATN Bangla, to surrender before the Nari O Shishu Nirjaton Daman Tribunal-7 of Dhaka in a case filed for raping a dancer in 2018.

Four public engineering universities who had earlier agreed on a cluster admission test system, are divided on the question of where the exam would be held.

Two ruling Awami League lawmakers yesterday demanded that the government take measures to reopen all educational institutions, as the long closure of schools and colleges are hindering students.