Without support of law enforcers, it is not possible for the transportation sector to maintain health guidelines in public transports, said Moshiur Rahman Ranga, president of Bangladesh Transport Owner Association.

A motorcyclist died after his bike collided with another bike in Dhaka’s Hatirjheel area yesterday morning.

Brood fish in Halda River have released sample eggs starting Tuesday night. Halda is the sole natural spawning ground for carp-like fish in South Asia, and the fish have laid eggs in various points of the river.

The family of Kanchan Miah, a ready-made garments worker who was critically wounded by the police while protesting for an extension on Eid holidays, demonstrated for compensation at the Jatiya Press Club yesterday.

Investigators of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) have now sent an official letter to local offices of a United Nations agency, seeking information about a former employee, in connection with the gruesome murder of Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, wife of former Superintendent of Police (SP) Babul Akter.

The national budget for 2021-22 should be adopted focusing on the health crisis caused by Covid-19, said speakers at a virtual discussion yesterday.

A newly-married woman was killed in a collision between a motorbike and a truck in Panchagarh’s Boda upazila on Monday night.

Anti-terrorism Unit (ATU) of police arrested a convicted member of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), nearly three years after a Rangpur court sentenced him to death for killing the caretaker of a shrine.

Country Manager of airline operator Saudia in Bangladesh, Tarik A Alowaidi, yesterday asked all Saudia Arabia -bound Bangladeshi workers to book hotels for quarantine stays through the airline’s holiday website.

With the railway authorities yet to determine the fate of 10 locomotives that a South Korean company supplied breaching contract, the project authority has sought one-year extension of deadline.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday met with five journalists’ associations at the Secretariat, and told the leaders that the Rozina Islam issue need not have rolled so far.

Ekushey Padak laureate poet Habibullah Sirajee was laid to eternal rest yesterday at Azimpur Graveyard.

After Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) Mayor Rezaul Karim Chowdhury took office on February 15, he started a 100-day crash programme to solve some of the city’s key issues on priority basis. Even though 95 days have gone by, most of the problems still persist, and the mayor’s promises remain unfulfilled.

Police and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-7) in separate drives seized around 1.75 lakh yaba pills and arrested nine persons from different parts of Chattogram’s Patiya upazila in the last two days.

Law enforcers yesterday morning recovered mutilated and decomposed body of a man, who had been missing for several days, from the septic tank of a mosque in the capital’s Dakshinkhan area. The deceased was identified as Azharul Islam Azhar (30), an RMG worker.

A Swechchhasebak League leader and nephew of the local lawmaker was arrested in Natore yesterday hours after he had allegedly assaulted an executive engineer of Bangladesh Water Development Board, said police.

The High Court yesterday upheld a lower court order that asked Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to freeze bank accounts and seize documents of properties of former Pirojpur lawmaker AKMA Awal and his wife Laila Parvin in two corruption cases.

Mufti Amir Hamza, a well-known speaker on Islam, was placed on a five-day remand yesterday in connection with a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act.

Ashraf Muhammad Iqbal, former chairman of Mongla Port, passed away on May 19.

The High Court yesterday called for documents from Bangladesh Krishi Bank about its decision of waiving interest of Tk 48 crore for Chattogram’s BNP leader and businessperson Abbas Ali.