A tribunal in Dhaka yesterday sentenced a man to life term imprisonment for raping a four-year-old girl in Dhaka’s Nawabganj in 2018.

Speakers at a virtual press conference yesterday called for ending violence in the name of religion, mob lynching, attacks on religious minorities’ home and the growing incidents of violence against women and girls. They urged to ensure rule of law, human rights, accountability and justice.

JAAGO Foundation and Volunteer for Bangladesh yesterday launched a campaign titled “Apnar mask kothay?” (Where is your mask?). Supported by Beximco Pharmaceuticals, the campaign aims to encourage people to wear masks and raise awareness on the importance of wearing masks during the pandemic.

The High Court yesterday wanted to know what step has been taken against Chattogram Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) Managing Director (MD) AKM Fazlullah for his alleged corruption, irregularities and nepotism at his office.

Rajshahi district administration yesterday began looking after Dil Afroze Khuki, who has been a newspaper hawker in the northern city for 30 years.

The government is planning to introduce new legislation to ensure privacy and data localisation for locally produced data. State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak said a draft of the new law is already underway, speaking at a webinar hosted by Internet Governance Forum on November 6.

Community centres are supposed to be a place where people of a neighbourhood gather, socialise and hold cultural and social events.

Zoynul Abedin, proprietor of Hanif Paribahan, died of Covid-19 on Wednesday night at the age of 87.

M Azizul Haq, former chairman of the Board of Directors at Pubali Bank and incumbent independent director and chairman of the audit committee, died at CMH in Dhaka yesterday.

AHNA Chowdhury, an engineer, urban planner and former senior government official, died on November 11 at his Dhaka residence. He was 85, says a press release.

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

At least eight buses and a minibus were torched in different parts of Dhaka within a span of a few hours this afternoon.

A tribunal in Dhaka today fixed November 19 for delivering verdict in the case filed over the rape of a DU student in the capital's Kurmitola this year.

A tribunal in Dhaka sentenced a man to life term imprisonment today, for raping a four-year-old girl in Nawabganj in 2018.

Jagannath University student Tithy Sarkar went into hiding and faked her own abduction in order to create diversion from the allegation of her “hurting religious sentiment”, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) said during a press briefing at its headquarters in Malibagh.

The by-polls to Dhaka-18 constituency has ended with an overall low turnover of voters. Only 274 votes had been cast at two polling centers in Starlit School of English over four hours. The by-election started around 8:00am. The total number of voters at the centres are 4,861.

Organising secretary of Cox’s Bazar District Awami League Naznin Sarwar Kaberi yesterday demanded resignation of advocate Rana Dasgupta from his prosecutor post of International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), over disrespecting the constitutional secularism through representing former Teknaf Police Station Officer-in-Charge Pradeep Kumar Das in court.

With no necessary tools, including oxygen support, in most hospitals, the issue of childhood pneumonia -- which causes more than 24,000 preventable deaths of children under five in the country annually -- is getting little importance during the pandemic, experts said yesterday.

Ninety-four percent of students are aware about TV education being broadcast during the pandemic, but 89 percent of them do not watch the lessons, reveals a study.

With speculations and rumours running rife on social media as to who actually detained suspended sub-inspector Akbar Hossain Bhuiyan from near the border area, Sylhet district police have said it took a “cross-border operation” to arrest him.