A woman died after the gas cylinder of a truck exploded in Dhaka’s Hazaribagh Beribandh area yesterday. The deceased Salma Begum (30), a labourer, was on the truck at the time.

The High Court yesterday granted ad-interim bail to former Barishal City Corporation mayor Ahsan Habib Kamal, who was sentenced to seven years imprisonment in a corruption case, clearing the way for him to walk out of jail.

The High Court yesterday stayed the process of recruitment of six teachers for Jahangirnagar University’s philosophy department till June 20.

Researchers have detected Chattogram’s first cases of the Covid-19 Delta variant, which was first found in India.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen inaugurated the newly established Bangabandhu Lounge at the Bangladesh Permanent Mission to the UN in New York on Monday.

The newly appointed vice-chancellor (VC) of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR) officially assumed his post on campus yesterday.

Police have pressed charges against three people in a case filed over the murder of school student Nila Roy in Savar last year.

The cabinet yesterday approved the draft of a policy to develop the automobile industry in the country in a bid to be self-reliant in this sector.

Members of Detective Branch (DB) of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) claimed to have identified several gangs that use mobile financial service to defraud people, and arrested two operatives of a gang.

Police yesterday pressed charges against two former leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra Odhikar Parishad but dropped names of former DUCSU VP Nurul Haque Nur and three others in a case filed with Kotwali Police Station over rape of a Dhaka University student last year.

The High Court yesterday directed the authorities concerned not to evict Tripura families from Sonaichhari in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila till further order.

The High Court yesterday cleared the way for holding the Laxmipur-2 constituency by-election, where Mohammad Shahid Islam -- also known as Kazi Papul -- had been elected as an independent lawmaker.

The attitude of some lawmakers towards women has become a matter of great concern, said women’s rights activists as well as organisations working for women’s rights and empowerment yesterday.

BNP MP Harunur Rashid yesterday -- at the parliament -- demanded that perpetrators behind the death of a college girl in a Dhaka flat be punished.

Chattogram District Administration started a massive eviction drive on the hill that surrounds port city’s Bayezid Bostami Link Road yesterday.

Today is the sixth death anniversary of Habibur Rahman Milon, former advisory editor of the daily Ittefaq.

Young Islamic preacher Abu Taw Haa Muhammad Adnan, his driver and two companions have been missing for three days, according to his family members.

Four people were killed and 17 others injured in road accidents in places including Dhaka yesterday, according to our correspondents.

LGRD Minister Md Tazul Islam yesterday asked authorities concerned to take necessary steps and ensure that makeshift cattle markets are set up only in designated places maintaining health guidelines during the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha.

The proposed budget for FY 2021-22, if passed, will make tobacco products even more affordable and increase its use among the youth and poor, said lawmakers, economists and public health experts at a virtual programme yesterday.