Three persons were arrested yesterday on charge of killing an Assistant Sub-inspector (ASI), Kazi Md Salauddin, of port city’s Chandgaon Police Station, who died after being run over by a microbus carrying alcohol in Chandgaon area on June 11.

Road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said the government is working to introduce metro rail in the port city.

In a tragic accident in Bogura’s Shibganj upazila, a head-on collision between a bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw killed a two-month-old and his grandparents yesterday, reports our Bogura correspondent.

A woman was killed and her daughter critically injured after being hit by a passenger bus when they were crossing road in front of a market at Shahjadpur in Dhaka last night.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claimed to have arrested six drug peddlers with crystal meth, also known as ice, from Dhaka’s Uttara area yesterday.

Two months into the second wave of Covid-19 in the country, shutki (dried fish) traders and producers of Rangpur division are yet to recover from the losses they incurred during the first wave of the pandemic.

Shahida Zahir (Ratna) passed away on Sunday (June 13) at her residence.

My cousin Dr. Luna Vishwanath (née Quader) passed away on June 6th. With her went a big part of my childhood. This is her story.

It’s good news for vaccine-seekers of Chattogram, as 91,200 doses of Sinopharm vaccine have reached the port city yesterday.

Police yesterday filed two cases against some 500 leaders and activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) for their alleged attack on law enforcers centring a rally in Mymensingh city’s Kalibari area on Thursday.

Bangladesh has been nominated as the member of Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) from the Asia region for three years from 2022.

Saudi Arabia has urged Bangladesh to send more skilled migrant workers to the Kingdom, as there are “ample job opportunities” for foreign workers in its various sectors.

Shahida Zahir (Ratna) passed away on Sunday, June 14, 2021 at her residence.

The three-day long virtual graduation ceremony of Scholastica, one of the leading English-medium schools of the country, ended yesterday.

At least 26 persons were injured in a clash between police and activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) in Mymensingh city’s Char Kalibari area yesterday afternoon.

The High Court in full text of a verdict released on Wednesday blasted Etihad Airways for harassing two Bangladesh-born women at Abu Dhabi International Airport in June 2011.

Dhaka University authorities yesterday sent a press release to the media clarifying what they termed “fragmented and misleading information” about the university.

The government is considering to launch a dedicated TV channel for students so that they can take part in the digital classes throughout the year, Education Minister Dipu Moni told the parliament yesterday.

The University Grants Commission (UGC) yesterday approved a Tk 10,032 crore budget for public universities for the 2021-22 fiscal year.

BNP yesterday urged the government to allow its chairperson Khaleda Zia to receive advanced treatment abroad, shunning “politics of vengeance”, as she is in a vulnerable state with various health complications.