Sramik League leaders hardly work to ensure workers’ rights. They remain busy joining special day’s programmes, lobbying influential people and manipulating tenders, allege activists of the platform.

What was once considered encroachment has become outright murder. But the seriousness of the crime has done little to deter a carnival of corruption plaguing river management.

Two agitating teachers of Jahangirnagar University last night submitted a six-page written complaint and around 70-page written information about the VC’s alleged corruption to the education ministry.

Mayeen Uddin Khan Badal, a freedom fighter and lawmaker of Chattogram-8 (Boalkhali-Chandgaon), passed away at a hospital in India early yesterday at the age of 67.

The US has condemned Myanmar’s inaction in creating conditions conducive to a voluntary, safe and dignified return of the Rohingyas.

The road transport and bridges ministry has once again delayed the implementation of the Road Transport-Act 2018, after the authorities already failed to take necessary measures to start enforcing it on November 1 as was announced earlier.

Academic activities at several public universities have been thrown into disarray due to unrest over different issues, including allegations of the vice-chancellors’ involvement in irregularities and corruption.

Coming down hard on those involved in movements against the vice-chancellors of several universities, including Jahangirnagar University, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the accusers would have to face punishment if they failed to prove the allegations.

India skipper Rohit Sharma put on an awe-inspiring display of hitting as the hosts cantered to an emphatic eight-wicket win over Bangladesh in the second T20I at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Rajkot yesterday. The win levelled the three-match T20I series 1-1, with the decider to be played in Nagpur on Sunday.

A vibrant Bangladesh team have the chance to continue their momentum and clinch their first ever T20I series win over India when they take on the hosts in the second T20I at Rajkot’s Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium today even as the threat of cyclone ‘Maha’ looms on the horizon.

Bangladesh is likely to be hit by its own “carbon bomb” once its 30 coal-based power plants go operational altogether by 2031, says a new report.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday reiterated her stance on not allowing industries on arable land, saying that the country’s industrialisation would not come at the cost of its agriculture sector, BSS reports.

The estimated cost of constructing a third terminal at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport has been increased by 40 percent. It is now a Tk-20,598 crore project.

Matiur Rahman, editor and publisher of Bangla daily Prothom Alo, was sued yesterday in connection with the death of Naimul Abrar Rahat, a ninth grader of Dhaka Residential Model College.

The embattled vice chancellor of Jahangirnagar University yesterday held the agitating students and teachers responsible for the current crisis at the university.

The crisis at Jahangirnagar University seems far from over as the teachers and students agitating for the vice-chancellor’s resignation defied a university ban and staged protests on the campus yesterday.

Amnesty International yesterday said the Bangladeshi authorities have allegedly killed 466 people last year under the guise of an anti-drugs campaign in what appears to be “a wave of extrajudicial executions”.

Their leaders claim that they have committees up to village level across the country. If we go by that claim, Krishak League should have at least a whopping 39 lakh leaders across the country.

Two days before Buet student Abrar was tortured to death, some of the suspects held two meetings at their dorm canteen and guest room and decided to beat him up and evict him if his involvement with Shibir was found.

Chhatra League men yesterday assaulted teachers and students who had kept Jahangirnagar University Vice-chancellor Prof Farzana Islam confined to her residence demanding her resignation over corruption allegations.