Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh yesterday directed its officials concerned to increase revenue income and reduce dependency on projects.

A fire ravaged a warehouse market in Rangpur city yesterday, gutting valuables of 15 shops. Traders said mostly clothes were burnt.

Theatre activist Lily Chowdhury, wife of martyred intellectual Munier Chowdhury, was laid to rest at Dhaka’s Banani graveyard yesterday afternoon.

Bangabandhu’s dynamism and farsightedness shaped the foreign policy visions of Bangladesh, said speakers at a webinar as part of the celebrations of Mujib Year.

On the afternoon of March 3, 2018, renowned educationist and writer Dr Muhammed Zafar Iqbal was attacked by a youth with a knife at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (Sust) in Sylhet.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Housing and Public Works Ministry yesterday recommended planning a satellite city adjacent to the capital.

People of the Mro community need the right to live on their ancestral land maintaining their traditional lifestyle, not any five-star hotel, said speakers at a protest rally yesterday.

Leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra Union brought out a torch procession in the capital’s Purana Paltan this evening demanding the immediate release of seven leftist student leaders who were arrested during a protest over the death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed.

Jaago Foundation, in collaboration with Urmi Group, has completed a Covid-19 vaccination awareness campaign to bring underprivileged communities under the government’s vaccination programme against Covid-19.

The Dhaka University authorities have expelled 12 students after different allegations, including digital fraud and admission through illegal ways, against them were proven.

A nine-year-old boy died in Dinajpur’s Kaharol upazila after a pack of dogs mauled him on Sunday evening.

Police recovered the body of a former Union Parishad (UP) chairman from his house at Satkania upazila of Chattogram yesterday morning. The deceased is Abdul Haque (75), former chairman of Keochia union of Satkania, said police.

National Museum of Science and Technology (NMST) has been awarded “Best Organisation” of the Ministry of Science and Technology in implementing Annual Performance Agreement for 2019-20.

Maintaining flight schedule is the biggest challenge for Biman Bangladesh Airlines, said newly-appointed Managing Director and CEO of the national flag carrier Abu Saleh Mostafa Kamal yesterday.

A woman and her grandchild were killed and two other family members were injured after a truck hit their auto-rickshaw in Dhaka’s Rupnagar area yesterday morning.

Japan and the UN Refugee Agency have signed an agreement to provide approximately USD 10 million to improve water supply and distribution systems for Rohingya refugees and host communities in Teknaf.

The admission test of Rajshahi University (RU) for the academic session (2020-2021) will start from June 14. The entry test under C unit will be held on June 14, A unit on June 15 and B unit on June 16.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul yesterday vowed to implement the dream of establishing a democratic state on the occasion of 50 years of the country’s independence.

Dhaka University (DU) teacher Samia Rahman, who has been demoted to assistant professor over plagiarism, yesterday claimed that she is innocent and a victim of “colleagues’ conspiracy”.

Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Kumar Doraiswami yesterday emphasised ensuring the best possible understanding between the two countries.