Rather than reducing air pollution, government institutions actually contribute to it, environmental activists alleged at a press conference in the capital’s Kalabagan yesterday.

The body of Prime Minister’s Military Secretary Major General Mia Mohammad Zainul Abedin Bir Bikram was brought to Dhaka last evening.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) to put a stop to trespassing, drugs and goods smuggling, and human trafficking by performing their duties properly.

The High Court yesterday granted bail to former chief engineer of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) Saidur Rahman in a case filed by Anti-Corruption Commission over forgery in the design of Banani’s FR Tower, which caught fire in March, leaving 25 people dead and 73 injured.

Activists of Muktijuddho Moncho and Bangladesh Sadharan Chhatra Adhikar Sangrakkhan Parishad faced off on Dhaka University campus yesterday, as the two organisations called separate programmes at the same venue at the same time.

The inaugural session of a seminar on “Protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage in China and Bangladesh” was held on the capital’s North South University (NSU) campus on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says no freedom fighter will be there in the list of Razakars as the recently disclosed list is no way that of the collaborators of Pakistani occupation forces.

The High Court grants bail to former chief engineer of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) Saidur Rahman in a case filed over forgery in the design of Banani’s FR Tower that was ravaged by a deadly fire in March this year.

The Election Commission is to announce the schedules for elections to two Dhaka city corporations on December 22.

Amid countrywide outrage, Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque says the names of freedom fighters and members of pro-liberation organisations will be dropped from the list of Razakars.

The High Court has stayed the effectiveness of a gazette notification issued by Bangladesh Bar Council permitting Md Zumman Siddique, son of a High Court judge, to practice law in the High Court even though Zumman could not qualify the enrollment examination.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has instructed the authorities concerned to publish a fresh list of Razakars immediately after scrutinizing the names and making necessary corrections.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) to stop trespassing, smuggling of drugs and other goods, and human trafficking by performing their duties properly.

The High Court wants to know what steps the government have taken for rehabilitation of all street children across the country.

Two security guards of the 11-storey building at Banani where Chinese national Jianhui Gao was found buried has been arrested and said they killed him to loot his money.

Bangladesh Chhatra League, the pro Awami League student body, relieves 32 leaders of its central executive committee.

Dr Nazmul Hoque, a scientist, passed away at his residence in Dhaka on December 10 at the age of 75, says a press release.

Maj Gen Mia Mohammad Zainul Abedin Bir Bikram, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s military secretary, passed away at a hospital in Singapore yesterday.

Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan yesterday sought assistance from Japan to build a new bridge to replace the century-old Hardinge Bridge in Pabna.

Dalia (23) returned home in August from Saudi Arabia, with a broken spinal cord and leg from jumping off the fourth floor of a building to save herself from torture by her employer there.