On October 9, the journalists invited by the Prime Minister’s Office got the privilege of asking Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina questions on the recent deals with India including Feni river water-sharing and on brutal killing of Buet student Abrar. The art of questioning plays a very important role in the professional life of a journalist. The common perception is that asking proper questions has become a lost art. How did the journalists fare at Gono Bhaban?

The students of different universities have been protesting the gruesome murder of Buet Student Abrar Fahad.

Monirul Islam, additional commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), says that police will investigate Buet student Abrar Fahad murder case upholding its highest level of professionalism and sincerity.

Denying the allegation that the law enforcers assaulted Abrar Fahad’s brother, Kushtia police claims that Abrar Fayaz tried to attack Buet vice-chancellor during his visit to Kushtia.

Rahgir Almahi Ershad, elected from Rangpur 3, take oath as a member of the Parliament.

Three members of Rapid Action Battalion and their two female informants are picked up by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) from the frontier in Brahmanpara upazila of Cumilla, police said.

World Bank (WB) has forecasted the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate of Bangladesh at 7.2 per cent for the fiscal year 2019-20, while government’s projection for the same fiscal year in the national budget was 8.2 per cent.

Jagannath University (JnU) authorities have imposed a restriction on visitors during academic hours on the campus.

Eight people, including a woman and two siblings, die reportedly after taking “excessive liquor” in Khulna city and Rupsha upazila of the district.

Local people formed a human chain at Ramchandrapur village in Pabna Sadar upazila yesterday protesting the killing of a housewife for dowry.

A Habiganj court yesterday sentenced a man to life term imprisonment for killing a boy.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested an alleged arms trader with firearms and ammunitions from Dhope Pukur area in Shibganj upazila of the district on Tuesday night.

Obstructing outdoor games, the headmaster of a high school in Gaibandha’s Fulchhari upazila has been cultivating black lentils on the school playground for the last two years.

While World Mental Health Day is being observed with the main theme “suicide prevention”, the menace of taking own life remains a major concern in the country as well as around the world.

A labour court in Dhaka issued an arrest warrant against Grameen Bank founder Dr Muhammad Yunus in three cases filed over sacking of three employees of Grameen Communications, the IT wing of Grameen Bank.

Consumer Rights Protection Committee threatens to wage tough movement against the syndicate responsible for the price hike of daily commodities if the government does not to take steps to keep the market prices of essentials at tolerable level.

President Abdul Hamid, also the chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University (BSMRSTU) in Gopalganj, accepts the resignation letter of the university’s Vice Chancellor Khondoker Nasiruddin with effect from September 30 last month.

The vice chancellor of Buet, who was asked to appear on the campus by this afternoon and answer why he didn’t show up right after the murder of Abrar Fahad, is said to have started for Kushtia to console the victim’s family members.

Bangladesh has slipped two notches to 105th in economic competitiveness ranking in 2019, according to Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) 2019 released by World Economic Forum.

A Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB) member and his wife are killed in a road accident on Rajshahi-Dhaka highway in Puthia upazila of Rajshahi.