The High Court yesterday acquitted three people who were sentenced to death by a trial court in a case filed for abducting and killing a six-year-old in Cox’s Bazar in 2013.

A young woman, sitting with a man, was smoking near Rajshahi’s Circuit House Road -- a public space -- on Sunday afternoon when a man appeared and started shouting at her, asking to leave immediately. Soon, some other men joined him in rebuking her for “smoking in a public place”.

Covid-19 patients that received a five-day course of the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin have shown an early viral clearance and improvements of blood biomarkers compared with other two control groups, researchers found in their study at icddr,b.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said it would take 10 to 12 months to complete other works of the long-cherished Padma bridge after installation of the last span.

Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) yesterday demolished part of a petrol pump illegally constructed on land surrounding Buriganga River. The land was allegedly occupied by lawmaker Haji Mohammad Salim.

People holding out their hands to stop speedy vehicles, buses stopping randomly to take in passengers, cars zooming past pedestrians crossing the road -- this is the chaotic scenario at the road crossing in front of Brac University at the capital’s Mohakhali.

Not an isolated incident, say women in Rajshahi

Police charged baton, fired tear gas shells and used water cannon on garment workers, including wounded former workers of Tazreen Fashions, to vacate the sidewalk in front of the Jatiya Press Club early today, workers and labour leaders alleged.

With the aim to provide safe drinking water to RMG workers, two water booths were installed in two garment workers’ residential communities in Chattogram and Gazipur last month.

Three motorcyclists were killed as the vehicle hit a tree in Duaria area of Lalpur upazila in Natore early yesterday.

Jahangirnagar University (JU) authorities have decided to hold the honours final year examinations that were previously postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The exam will be a mixture of online viva-voce and averaging previous three years’ CGPA.

AKM Manir Hossain Pathan, additional chief engineer of Roads and Highways Department (RHD), and Amit Kumar Chakrabarty, its executive engineer,

Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday said the governments that held power immediately before Sheikh Hasina’s election, were most reluctant to ensure the independence and proper facilities including the salaries and allowances of judges.

The lone RT-PCR machine of Barishal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College has remained out of order for five days, suspending coronavirus test at the medical institution.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday denied bail to two convicts -- former deputy inspector general of police Khan Sayeed Hasan and former deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Obaidur Rahman Khan -- in the August 21 grenade attack cases.

A Dhaka tribunal yesterday asked defence lawyers for twenty-two accused in the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) student Abrar Fahad murder case, now in jail, to submit the High Court order regarding its transfer by December 22.

The High Court yesterday directed the Nari O Shishu Nirjatan Daman Tribunal of Dinajpur to finish trial proceedings of the case filed for the abduction and rape of a five-year-old in the district in 2016 and submit a compliance report to this court by March 31 next year.

A total of 304 incoming passengers were sent to institutional quarantine in the last 24 hours -- since Saturday morning -- as they did not have Covid-19 negative certificates with them.

Speakers at an online discussion yesterday said the government has to play its proactive role to fully implement the Chattogram Hill Tracts (CHT) Accord and resolve peoples’ problems there.

The government is yet to resume circular bus services on two routes in Dhaka, citing that they are not financially viable.