Pakistan President Dr Arif Alvi has said his country wants to improve commercial and cultural relations with Bangladesh.

Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) yesterday launched a special bus service between Tungipara of Gopalganj and Mujibnagar of Meherpur to mark the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

The body of BNP standing committee member and noted lawyer Moudud Ahmed will be brought back home from Singapore today evening.

With government-provided recognition of prior learning (RPL) certificates, returnee migrant workers will be able to go abroad as skilled workers, said Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government is doing everything possible for ensuring a better future for the children of the country.

Today is the 42nd death anniversary of Abul Mansur Ahmad, a renowned litterateur, journalist, and politician of the sub-continent. He died in 1979.

Thirty-year-old Aklima Akter of Mirpur’s Duaripara slum shares her tiny and slippery “hanging latrine” with over 80 people in her neighbourhood.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair-2021 on Bangla Academy premises and Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka tomorrow.

Three patients died after they were shifted from the Dhaka Medical College Hospital‘s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) dedicated for Covid-19 patients during a fire incident this morning.

Firefighters doused a blaze after it broke out at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) dedicated for Covid-19 patients in the second floor of Dhaka Medical College Hospital's (DMCH) new building.

An 18-year-old was hacked to death allegedly by a youth at Balinga village of Beanibazar upazila in Sylhet yesterday afternoon.

Rapid action battalion (Rab) in a drive early yesterday arrested a youth accused in the murder case of Savar schoolboy Rohanul Islam Rohan. He was arrested earlier in a drive on Saturday, but he fled custody after attacking police officers.

A group of journalists of daily Janakantha yesterday demanded intervention of the prime minister in stopping wholesale termination and implementation of wage board at the newspaper.

The High Court yesterday summoned the head of Dhaka Medical College Hospital’s (DMCH) forensics department to appear before it on April 1 for not releasing the autopsy report in a Gazipur murder case in more than 16 months.

A Dhaka court will decide on April 1 whether to accept charges against 10 people, including Khandaker Mohtesam Hossain Babar, brother of former minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, in a Tk 2,000 crore money laundering case.

Brig Gen (retd) Mujibur Rahman, a freedom fighter, died after suffering from cardiac arrest and Covid-19 at the Combined Military Hospital on March 14.

Hafiza Begum, a patron of education, social worker and founder of A Rafet Biswas Mohabidyalaya in Mirpur, Kushtia, passed away at a hospital in Dhaka on Monday. She was 86, said a press release.

Leaders and activists of progressive students’ organisations have called upon the government to abolish the Digital Security Act (DSA), saying that it is being used to muzzle people’s freedom of expression.

AZM Anas, economic editor of The Financial Express, has passed away yesterday. He was 45 at the time.

The High Court yesterday exempted Grameen Telecom Chairman and Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus and its Managing Director Md Ashraful Hasan from personal appearance before the court in connection with a contempt of court rule.