Six people were killed and at least four were injured in separate road accidents across the country over the last two days, report our correspondents.

President Abdul Hamid yesterday asked Border Guard Bangladesh to intensify vigilance against cross-border smuggling, staying away from greed and allurement.

The Election Commission (EC) has decided that mayoral and councillor candidates will not be able to use plastic-laminated posters for campaigning in Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) polls.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday hoped to start the work for expanding Dhaka-Sylhet highway into four lanes in July, as uncertainty regarding funding is over.

Jubo Mohila League’s suspended leader Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman Sumon have been placed on 15-day remand each, in connection with three cases filed with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar and Bimanbandar police stations in the capital.

A Dhaka court yesterday fixed March 9 for next hearing of the case filed against Prothom Alo Editor and Publisher Matiur Rahman over the death of college student Naimul Abrar Rahat.

A Supreme Court lawyer yesterday filed a writ petition with the HC challenging the legality of the government move to reduce bank savings’ interest rate to a single digit.

At least 59 women were raped and sexually harassed in public transports last year, says a report of Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity, a passenger welfare association.

When Sylhet municipality was upgraded to city corporation in 2002, no one was concerned about the rapid urbanisation that might hit the city, especially in the suburban areas.

The stalls of government service providers and autonomous institutions have been drawing a good number of book lovers at the Bangla Academy portion of the month-long Amar Ekushey Grantha Mela this year.

A suspected human trafficker was detained and four people were rescued during a Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) raid of a travel agency office in the capital's Baridhara DOHS area.

Two members of a family have died of an unidentified disease at Sangaon village in Thakurgaon’s Baliadangi upazila in the last three days.

The authorities of Dhaka University and Rajshahi University decide not to adopt the uniform admission test – initiated by the UGC -- to enrol students.

The High Court questions the legality of two sections under the Digital Security Act involving the publishing of false or intimidating information, and crimes and penalty for deterioration of law and order.

Sushashoner Jonno Nagorik (Shujan), a civil society platform for good governance, says the Election Commission has failed once again to hold an election in a free, fair and neutral manner as the recently held Dhaka city corporation elections were “controlled”.

Mayoral and councillor candidates cannot use laminated posters for their campaigns in the Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) elections scheduled for March 29, Returning Officer Mohammad Hasanuzzaman says.

Former principal of Rajshahi Medical College and Sylhet Medical College Prof Nazimuddin Ahmed passed away in Rajshahi on Saturday night. He was 83.

Stamford University Bangladesh’s architecture department yesterday organised an event titled “Ancient Religious Structures of Dhaka City: Conservation and its Adaptability” at the department premises.

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday pressed charges against expelled Jubo League Dhaka South Organising Secretary Khalid Mahmud Bhuiyan and five others in connection with a money laundering case.

A Dhaka court yesterday asked the Detective Branch (DB) of police to submit the probe report of a case filed over the rape of a Dhaka University student by March 16.