The popular mode of public transport, metro rail, will run on Fridays from this week as per the demand of the passengers. "Efforts are underway to run metro rail on weekly holidays from this Friday (September 20) following the decision of the ministry," Mohammad AbdurRouf, Managing Director of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL), said yesterday.

Former president of Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) and veteran journalist Azmal Hossain Khadem passed away at a city hospital here early yesterday. He was 76. "Khadem breathed his last at 12 am while he was undergoing treatment at a private hospital in city`s Tejgaon area", said the family sources of the deceased.

A total of 194 deputy secretaries from all cadres, except the administration cadre, have demanded promotion to the post of joint secretary.

Mohammad Mizan, who opened fire on the protesting students and the people in Chattogram during the movement against discrimination which ousted the Awami League government, has been arrested. He was arrested from the Brahmanpara area under BayazidBostami police station in the city on Monday night.