Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (PCJSS) issued a statement yesterday -- rounding up last year’s human rights situation in the Chattogram Hill Tracts, and alleging gross violations like land-grabbing, communal strife and violence against women, as well as increasing Bengali settlements.

Police on Monday night arrested two people, including a Chhatra League activist, on charge of taking Tk 2 lakh from a woman using the name of Deputy Education Minister Mahibul Hasan Chowdhury Nowfel.

Immediate action must be taken against those involved in Lakingme Chakma’s death, said speakers at a press conference yesterday.

“Awami League is barely in the political field anymore, they are running the country through the power of administration,” said Jatiya Party Chairman and Deputy Leader of the Opposition GM Quader yesterday.

The government has sent free and fair election system to the museum by holding “unilateral” polls, alleged BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi yesterday. “Candidates who can buy the ‘boat’ (AL’s election symbol) symbol at a higher price, get a sure chance to make fortune. Getting a boat symbol means getting elected under the current election system,” he said.

Eminent citizens and different sociocultural and students’ organisations in Chattogram city have been organising demonstrations, demanding the government take steps to protect a historic structure, a part of which was demolished by a group of people.

Police last night arrested two people, including an activist of the Bangladesh Chhatra League, on charge of taking Tk two lakh from a woman using the name of Deputy Education Minister Mahibul Hasan Chowdhury Nowfel.

A general diary was lodged with Gulshan Police Station saying that several fake Facebook IDs have been opened in the name of Law Minister Anisul Huq in order to socially malign him.

A workers’ platform yesterday urged the government to immediately modernise the state-owned jute mills and reopen those, saying that resumption of the mills will ensure employment of about 75,000 workers.

A project on the construction of Chattogram City Outer Ring Road -- that was taken around ten years back in 2011 with four-year completion period -- is yet to be completed.

Eminent novelist Rabeya Khatun was laid to eternal rest at Banani graveyard yesterday afternoon. An Independence Day awardee and Ekushey Padak winner, she was buried following her namaz-e-janaza at Channel I premises.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Atiqul Islam yesterday said no encroachers, even powerful ones, will be spared from the corporation’s eviction drive, and multi-storey buildings constructed illegally on canal land will be demolished.

Khandaker Aliour Rahman, secretary of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA), has passed away at a city hospital yesterday. He was 52.

Tipped-off that drug was being smuggled into the capital inside a covered-van without a number plate, detectives beefed-up vigilance at various entry points yesterday.

Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) yesterday said that the five people who died from alcohol poisoning during New Year celebrations in Rajshahi was due to them consuming liquor adulterated with chemicals.

After 2020 saw several worker’s death in multiple shipbreaking yards in Sitakunda upazila, a Ministry of Industry letter has put the blame on yard owners’ apathy in ensuring a safe workplace for their employees.

The Bangladeshi contingent at the 22nd International Robot Olympiad (IRO) has won two gold, two silver and five bronze medals, along with six more technical awards.

Militant outfits have often used media in a tactical way to spread their message, and the media at times served the outfits’ purpose through exaggerating the details, according to a study.

Forty-two passengers were put under a mandatory 14-day institutional quarantine after they landed at Sylhet Osmani International Airport from London yesterday afternoon.

The High Court yesterday refused to grant bail to former Faridpur town unit Awami League general secretary Sajjad Hossain alias Barkat and his brother Imtiaz Hasan alias Rubel, in a case filed for laundering Tk 2,000 crore abroad.