Polytechnic students across the country are set to hold rallies today to press home their six-point demand. The announcement was made yesterday during a human chain organised in front of Dhaka Polytechnic Institute.

Men, women, children… even infants.

The registrations of 316 rice mills in Dinajpur have been revoked after they failed to reach an agreement with the government for supplying rice and paddy during the recently concluded Aman procurement season.

The 24th convocation of East West University (EWU) was held at Aftabnagar Sports Ground in Dhaka on April 16, said a press release.

Bangladesh Road Transport Authority yesterday suspended the registration of a passenger bus that continued travelling for several kilometres even after its roof was torn off in a series of collisions on Dhaka-Mawa Expressway in Sreenagar upazila of Munshiganj on Thursday night.

BNP does not see the need to launch a movement against the Prof Yunus-led administration, for now, to compel it to hold the next national election in December, said BNP senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan.

Last year, 17-year-old Nur Mostofa, like many of his peers, took to the streets, standing shoulder to shoulder with the masses to protest the killings of hundreds at the hands of law enforcers during the July uprising and to demand the resignation of then-prime minister Sheikh Hasina.

Bangladesh must shift from an economy and polity controlled by vested interest groups to a system that ensures active participation of the youth and equal access to opportunities and state benefits for all citizens, speakers said at a discussion yesterday.

Battery-run rickshaw drivers engaged in sporadic clashes with locals in Gulshan and Banani yesterday while protesting a ban on their vehicles in the area.

The high-powered task force, led by Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) chief Additional Inspector General Md Mustafa Kamal, has failed to submit any report to the High Court in connection with the murder of journalist couple Sagar Sarwar and Meherun Runi, despite the six-month deadline given by the court expiring over two weeks ago.

A Primeasia University student was stabbed to death allegedly by another student in the capital yesterday afternoon.

Stating that political parties have embedded their own ideologies as fundamental principles in the Constitution of Bangladesh, the National Citizen Party has questioned whether there should be any fundamental principles in the charter at all.

The cyber crime team under the Counter Terrorism Unit of Chattogram Metropolitan Police yesterday arrested a 21-year-old youth for allegedly running a cyber campaign aimed at cancelling the admissions of Bangladeshi students who have applied to foreign universities, including those in the US

Mahdi Amin, adviser to BNP acting chairperson Tarique Rahman, speaks to The Daily Star

The Women’s Affairs Reforms Commission has proposed a series of comprehensive reforms to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women embedded in the country’s laws, constitution, policies, and institutions.

A section of government officials under the banner of “Baisamya Birodhi Karmachari Oikya Forum” has demanded cancellation of all types of contractual appointments across all levels in the civil administration.

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus yesterday expressed his commitment to ensuring that the upcoming national election will be the best in Bangladesh’s history.

Home Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury yesterday said police had been ordered to make sure that the Awami League cannot organise any more processions.

The National Central Bureau (NCB) of Bangladesh Police has submitted a request to Interpol seeking a “red notice” against 12 people, including former prime minister Sheikh Hasina.

A man was killed and three others were injured in a head-on collision between a bus and an auto-rickshaw on the Bagerhat-Pirojpur regional highway in Bagerhat early today..The deceased was identified as Siyam Gazi, 20, of Teligati village under Morrelganj upazila..The injured are Moj