Prof Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah, the vice-chancellor of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR) was declared persona non grata on campus today after he held a press conference in Dhaka.

The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) said they have recovered a big consignment of highly addictive crystal meth near a Rohingya camp in Teknaf, known as the traditional gateway of yaba pills into Bangladesh from Myanmar.

HT Imam, the lifelong bureaucrat-turned-adviser to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was laid to rest at the Banani Graveyard in Dhaka this evening.

United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has placed Bangladesh in a list of countries that require external assistance in food to brave “severe localised food insecurity”.

The death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed in prison was due to natural causes, said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan today.

The superintendent of Chattogram Central Jail, its jailer, the assistant surgeon of the jail hospital, and one civilian were sued today allegedly for torturing a prisoner inside the jail.

On the sidewalks of a street in Chattogram early this morning, a pregnant woman was groaning because of labour pain.

Expressing a view which is dissent from a decision taken by the federal government cannot be said to be seditious, India’s Supreme Court has observed.

Armed Myanmar soldiers and police are using TikTok to deliver death threats to protesters against last month’s coup, researchers said, prompting the Chinese video-sharing app to announce it was removing content that incites violence.

The European Medicines Agency said it has started a rolling review of Sputnik V, many months after the vaccine was first approved for use in Russia and after dozens of countries around the world have authorized it.

New Zealand police said on Thursday they had charged a 27-year-old man after he threatened to attack two mosques that were the scene of mass murder by a white supremacist two years ago.

Seven people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

After walking out of Kashimpur Central Jail-2 in Gazipur, cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore was on the way to a hospital and said, "I am not in a condition to go home."

Two persons were killed in separate road accidents in Dhaka’s Jatrabari and Khilkhet areas early this morning.

Police in Myanmar broke up demonstrations in several places with tear gas and gunfire on Thursday but there was no immediate word on casualties a day after the United Nations said 38 people had been killed in the bloodiest day since last month’s coup.

Prime Minister’s Political Adviser HT Imam, who breathed his last in the early hours of today, will be laid to eternal rest with state honour at the Banani Graveyard in Dhaka after Asr prayers.

The High Court today directed the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to submit charge sheets to the trial courts in two and half months in connection with 21 corruption cases filed against Iqbal Hossain Bhuiyan, managing partner of SD Survey Firm, and several others for their involvement with the BASIC Bank loan scam.

A writ petition was filed with the High Court today seeking its directive on the government to digitise marriage and divorce registrations to save people from fraudulence.

India focuses on the development of connectivity with Bangladesh and beyond as the two countries celebrate 50 years of the diplomatic relationship.

Villagers and environmental lawyers urged the authorities to stop rampant underground water withdrawal by industries in Patiya upazila’s Habilasdwip union in Chattogram.