A three-day photo exhibition on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s life and work, marking the historic 7th May, concluded at Sylhet’s Shilpakala Academy on Tuesday night.

United Hospital Renal Care Center has organised a forum with kidney patients entitled “Staying Well with Kidney Disease”, marking World Kidney Day today, said a press release.

The death toll from cardiac arrests and strokes increased last year compared to 2019, Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) revealed yesterday.

Jabbarer Bolikhela, a traditional wrestling and fair, has been postponed this year due to Covid-19 pandemic, said organisers yesterday.

A burn victim, who suffered injuries in a fire in Narayanganj on Tuesday, died at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital early yesterday.

Railways Minister M Nurul Islam Sujan yesterday urged the United States (US) government to invest in Bangladesh railways.

Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Barrister Fazle Noor Taposh today said spaces under flyovers would be freed for ensuring vehicle movement and healthy environment.

A man who sustained burn injury along with five other family members in an explosion at their flat in Narayanganj city early Tuesday, has died early today.

A court in Chattogram yesterday sent a policeman’s wife to jail in connection with a case filed by Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) for amassing wealth of Tk 1.38 crore from unknown sources.

Two people including a five-year-old girl died and one was injured in road accidents across two districts of the country yesterday.

The High Court yesterday refused to grant bail to Mohsin Talukdar in a case filed for threatening to kill cricketer Shakib Al Hasan via Facebook Live in November last year.

To escape, he jumped off a four-storey under-construction building and landed on the other side of the boundary wall.

A bus driver and his assistant were arrested early yesterday on charge of pushing a speech-impaired woman off a running bus in Rohitpur Bazar of Keraniganj on Monday.

In Bangladesh, men own 96 percent of the land, while women have rights to only four percent. And even this small group of women are from the affluent community. Poor and marginalised women do not have any right over lands.

Six members of a family, including two children, were burnt in an explosion in their flat in Narayanganj city early yesterday.

About 47 percent of returnee expatriates in the country are facing difficulties in finding employment, 29 percent are facing financial problems and 21 percent are in debt.

Two Indian Naval ships -- INS Kulish and INS Sumedha -- are ending a three-day visit to Mongla Port today, to celebrate Mujib Borsho and 50 Years of Liberation War of Bangladesh.

The High Court yesterday issued a rule asking the state to explain why the punishment of former mayor of Gazipur City Corporation MA Mannan should not be enhanced from one year’s imprisonment in a corruption case.

Academics have suggested promoting women’s education in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), highlighting the rising demands of technology-based solutions to the problems the world faces today.

University Grants Commission (UGC) yesterday said a non-existent foreign university is operating a fake study centre in the capital. It urged authorities to take immediate action to close down any such centres.