Police launch probe into separate killings

Foreign adviser urges rejection of Israel’s recognition of ‘Somaliland’

Educating daughters will create a kinder world, said Oxford University Vice-Chancellor Irene Tracey yesterday, speaking at the 12th commencement ceremony of the Asian University for Women (AUW).

National Citizen Party (NCP) Convener Nahid Islam yesterday expressed concern about whether a level playing field exists ahead of the upcoming election.

Thirty-two citizens yesterday condemned the killings of and attacks on members of minority communities ahead of the 13th national election.

A level playing field for the election is essential, and institutions, including the Election Commission and law enforcement agencies, must not be politicised, European Union Election Observer Mission (EOM) chief Ivars Ijabs has said.

Three foreign envoys paid courtesy calls on BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman at his Gulshan office yesterday.

A persistent cold wave has gripped northern Bangladesh for several days, intensifying the suffering of poor and marginalised people and threatening their livelihoods.

Mob violence, state inaction, and growing self-censorship have emerged as defining features of the post-July political landscape, speakers said yesterday, warning that the rule of law has weakened rather than improved since the uprising.

Medical wastes from different hospitals and diagnostic centres across Chattogram city are being routinely collected and disposed of without proper segregation, raising serious public health risks, including the spread of infectious diseases.

A suspected armed robber was killed in a gun attack by a rival gang at the Nayapara Registered Rohingya Camp in Teknaf early yesterday.

The annual two-day urs at the shrine of Hazrat Shah Khaza Sharfuddin Chishti located at the High Court premises in Dhaka was held on a limited scale this year as the traditional large gathering was postponed.

A man was stabbed to death while trying to stop a land dispute between two brothers in Barguna’s Amtali upazila yesterday.

Leaders of the Chittagong University Central Students’ Union (Cucsu) yesterday heckled a faculty member who is said to be aligned with the Awami League and handed him over to the proctor’s office.

Road development work in front of Gobardhanpur Government Primary School in Narendrapur village of Moulvibazar’s Kamalganj upazila has been disrupting academic activities and posing health risks to students.

A photography exhibition titled “Drishtite Srishti”(Creation in Sight), the first solo show by photographer Sowrav Das, opened at the Zila Shilpakala Academy in Chattogram yesterday.

A 21-year-old youth died after ingesting poison in Derai upazila of Sunamganj, with his family alleging that a creditor assaulted him and provoked him to take poison over unpaid dues.

An unidentified young man was beaten to death on suspicion of theft in Kurigram Sadar upazila early yesterday.

Brent Christensen, a career foreign service official, was sworn in as the new US Ambassador to Bangladesh on Friday.

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