Nadia Murad survived the worst cruelties inflicted on her people, the Yazidis of Iraq, before becoming a global champion of their cause and winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

Mentioning that Bangladesh will not remain dependent on others, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said her government has adopted all necessary plans and is working accordingly so that the country can secure greater dignity in the global arena.

All it took was a phone call from India to Bangladesh and the process of smuggling 43kg gold, worth Tk 18 crore, began.

The government yesterday issued a circular abolishing the quota system for class-I and class-II jobs in the civil service amid demonstrations for reinstating quota for the freedom fighters' descendants and indigenous communities.

The High Court yesterday directed the government to immediately admit BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) for treatment.

Right before the general election, some political parties and nomination seekers have begun pasting posters on the city's walls, defying a law prohibiting such acts.

The BNP has informally started the process for a seat sharing deal with Jamaat-e-Islami and other alliance partners, indicating that it would not sever ties with the Islamist party.

Zafar Dular is the main witness of a case. In the case, filed with Hazaribagh police in the capital on Sunday, police charged 48 named and many unknown people, mostly BNP men, with attacking police and obstructing them from doing their job.

The cabinet has approved a high-powered government committee's decision to abolish the existing quota system for class-I and class-II jobs in the civil service.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said journalists who do not publish false news need not worry about the Digital Security Bill, 2018. “If anybody doesn't have any criminal mindset or any plan to commit an offence, then there's nothing for him to be worried about,” she said at a press conference at the Gono Bhaban.

At least 30 leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League were injured as two groups of BCL men clashed at Jahangirnagar University over a trifle in the small hours of yesterday.

The cabinet yesterday approved the first-ever gold policy for the country aiming to make import and export of the precious metal easy, stop its smuggling, and ensure transparency in its trade.

Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland has urged BNP to participate in the coming national election.

Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury yesterday signed the recently passed Digital Security Bill.

Some of the actions Aung San Suu Kyi has taken as Myanmar's civilian leader are "regrettable" but her Nobel Peace Prize will not be withdrawn, the head of the Nobel Foundation told Reuters in an interview in Stockholm on Friday.

Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) and the UK's Futamura Chemical Company yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the commercial production of Sonali Bag -- a jute-made, biodegradable and environment-friendly poly bag.

Two eminent economists have called for a reform agenda for the next government from the international development partners, including the World Bank, to stave off brewing tension on various economic fronts.

Some 60,000 Bangladeshis, whose travel to Malaysia became uncertain after the country suspended the online recruitment system on September 1, have been cleared for migration to the Southeast Asian country.

Agents in Malaysia have swindled a huge sum of money from thousands of Bangladeshi workers in the Southeast Asian country, who, over the last two years, had applied to regularise their immigration status, victims and researchers said.

Most pedestrians were jaywalking at Shahbagh. Only a handful used the zebra crossings and footbridges. Buses were picking up and dropping off passengers in the middle of streets as rickshaws waited for passengers blocking part of the busy intersection.