Alleged land grabbers burned down five houses of indigenous families in Shikpur Adivasi village in Tanore upazila early yesterday.

The Anti-Corruption Commission suspects that Yusuf Ali Mridha had brought Tk 70 lakh from Chittagong to Dhaka on April 9 and passed it to Omar Faruq, the sacked aide of the former railway minister.

Tanjim Ahmad Sohel Taj, son of the country’s first prime minister Tajuddin Ahmad, resigned as lawmaker yesterday and declared that he would no longer be involved in active politics.

The BNP top brass appear to have differing views on missing party leader Ilias Ali’s wife Tahsin Rushdir Luna’s presence in Saturday’s Rab drive to rescue her husband.

Two people were killed and at least 50 including 10 policemen injured in fierce clashes between pro-hartal pickets and law enforcers at Bishwanath upazila headquarters in Sylhet during the BNP-enforced second straight countrywide hartal yesterday.

Six men climbed down into the crater of a volcano in Italy yesterday, in protest at the closure of the organisation they worked for which maintained trekking paths on Mount Vesuvius, near Naples.

Alleged land grabbers burned down five houses of indigenous families in Shikpur Adivasi village in Tanore upazila early yesterday.

The gap between male and female life expectancy is closing and men could catch up by 2030, according to an adviser for the Office for National Statistics.

The country’s business community has expressed grave concern as the hartal called by main opposition BNP demanding trace of its missing leader Ilias Ali steps on the third consecutive day.