Awami League (AL) mayoral candidate for Chattogram City Corporation polls Rezaul Karim Chowdhury yesterday conducted campaign at different wards of the port city, urging citizens to vote for him.

Although somewhat overshadowed by the candidates of Awami League and BNP, five other mayoral aspirants in Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) polls have been conducting their election campaigns in the port city at full strength.

Students vowed to eat nutritious food in order to develop themselves as healthy citizens of the country at a programme in Gazipur on Sunday.

A total of 250 illegal structures, including 20 high-rise buildings, were removed from the banks of the Louhajang river in a land recovery drive yesterday.

Foreign nationals with valid visas staying in Bangladesh will now have the option to extend existing visas by three months, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said.

Malka Perveen Banu -- one of the first female, Muslim singers of Radio Pakistan Dhaka -- passed away yesterday at the capital’s United

Officials of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate seized two luxury cars in the port city yesterday.

The assistant director (AD) of Bogura regional passport office went on a leave after Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed a case against him for issuing passport to an Indian national.

The government will brief diplomats stationed in Dhaka at 6:00pm today at State Guesthouse Padma on the coronavirus issue.

The Supreme Court has stayed a High Court verdict that scrapped the convictions and jail sentences handed down by the executive magistrate-run mobile courts to juveniles across the country.

The High Court has sought all relevant documents regarding the conviction and jail sentence of Kurigram journalist Ariful Islam, the case against him, bail order and formation of task force and mobile court.

Detectives press charges against the lone accused, Majnu, in a case filed over the rape of a Dhaka University student in the capital’s Kurmitola area on January 6.

General students of Jagannath University (JnU) are boycotting classes and examinations for an indefinite period, in a bid to resist the coronavirus spread.

Authorities of seven top public universities have suspended all academic activities aiming to prevent the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19).

Police today claimed that a mugger was killed in a gunfight with members of Detective Branch of police in Dhaka’s Khilgaon area early today.

The Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital opens a flu corner to ensure special care of people coming to hospital with flu.

In a major development in Bangladesh Police, the Ministry of Home Affairs has created a total of 215 new posts of superintendent of police (SP) rank in its organogram, in a bid to bring dynamism to the force.

Police yesterday arrested four people, who are responsible for the death of a woman after falling from a rickshaw during mugging in the capital’s Mugda on February 29.

A patient with coronavirus-like symptoms escaped from Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital yesterday afternoon.

Amid concerns from students and their guardians following the first confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said the government is mulling over closing the educational institutions.