Retailers in Bangladesh are reluctant to hire women and persons with disabilities because of safety and security issues, and the perception that women have limited capacity to endure physical strain, found a recent survey.

State Minister for Religious Affairs Ministry Faridul Haque Khan yesterday told parliament that no real Islamic scholar was arrested centering Hefajat-e Islam’s violent activities in late March in protest of Indian Prime Minister Narandra Modi’s visit in Bangladesh.

Thousands of students of Rajshahi University (RU), who were expecting to sit for their final examinations on university campus, are in uncertainty due to the lockdown imposed in Rajshahi.

Former Jatiya Party lawmaker MA Hannan, who was facing trial for allegedly committing crimes during the Liberation War, died of cancer yesterday. He was 86.

Even amid the pandemic, hundreds of conservancy workers in port city take to the streets to clean up the waste produced in the day. However, they continue to collect the waste without using any safety equipment, putting them at risk of being infected by various diseases.

The attitude of some lawmakers towards women has become a matter of great concern, said women’s rights activists as well as organisations working for women’s rights and empowerment yesterday.

BNP MP Harunur Rashid yesterday -- at the parliament -- demanded that perpetrators behind the death of a college girl in a Dhaka flat be punished.

Chattogram District Administration started a massive eviction drive on the hill that surrounds port city’s Bayezid Bostami Link Road yesterday.

The newly appointed vice-chancellor (VC) of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR) officially assumed his post on campus yesterday.

Police have pressed charges against three people in a case filed over the murder of school student Nila Roy in Savar last year.

The cabinet yesterday approved the draft of a policy to develop the automobile industry in the country in a bid to be self-reliant in this sector.

Members of Detective Branch (DB) of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) claimed to have identified several gangs that use mobile financial service to defraud people, and arrested two operatives of a gang.

Police yesterday pressed charges against two former leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra Odhikar Parishad but dropped names of former DUCSU VP Nurul Haque Nur and three others in a case filed with Kotwali Police Station over rape of a Dhaka University student last year.

The High Court yesterday directed the authorities concerned not to evict Tripura families from Sonaichhari in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila till further order.

The High Court yesterday cleared the way for holding the Laxmipur-2 constituency by-election, where Mohammad Shahid Islam -- also known as Kazi Papul -- had been elected as an independent lawmaker.

Four people were killed and 17 others injured in road accidents in places including Dhaka yesterday, according to our correspondents.

LGRD Minister Md Tazul Islam yesterday asked authorities concerned to take necessary steps and ensure that makeshift cattle markets are set up only in designated places maintaining health guidelines during the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha.

The proposed budget for FY 2021-22, if passed, will make tobacco products even more affordable and increase its use among the youth and poor, said lawmakers, economists and public health experts at a virtual programme yesterday.

Libyan coast guards have rescued and detained 439 migrants, including 164 Bangladeshis, from the Mediterranean Sea as they were trying to go to Europe.

The government needs to show its commitment in conserving the country’s environment and restoring its ecosystem, speakers said at an online discussion yesterday.