Carrying a Bangladeshi National Identity Card (NID), a Rohingya youth was detained from Chattogram Panchlaish Passport Office, while he was trying to get a passport yesterday noon.

Today is the fourth death anniversary of M Abdur Rahim, chairperson of the western zone of the then Mujibnagar government and a close associate of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

A youth has been allegedly assaulted to death in Barishal by staff of a rehabilitation centre, while they were trying to restrain and take him to the centre after he became violent at home.

The Supreme Court today upheld High Court orders that stayed the trial proceedings against BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in two cases filed in 2012 and 2013 over vandalism and arson.

In the wake of wide criticism, Dhaka University authorities today backtracked from their earlier notice of banning rag day celebration on campus.

Nearly one-third people involved in fishing in two coastal upazilas had no income during the government-imposed 65-day ban on the activity between May 20 and July 23, said a report prepared by Manusher Jonno Foundation.

The Election Commission has moved to kill itself through its latest initiative to revise the Representation of the People Order (RPO), 1972, said speakers including a former Appellate Division judge, eminent lawyer and civil society members, yesterday.

Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus, also founder of Grameen Bank, has been appointed the inaugural chancellor of Albukhary International University (AIU) in Malaysia, reports the New Straits Times.

Today marks the 122nd birth anniversary of renowned litterateur, journalist and politician Abul Mansur Ahmad. On this day in 1898, he was born in Dhanikhola village of Mymensingh.

A large group of animal lovers yesterday held a human chain in front of the Nagar Bhaban at Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), protesting authorities’ decision to move stray dogs to the Matuail landfill.

Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU), in collaboration with North South University (NSU), yesterday organised a virtual discussion on

To ensure emergency reproductive healthcare and family planning services for women and adolescents, government and NGOs must work together, urged speakers at an online dialogue titled “Reproductive Health Services for Women and Adolescents in COVID-19: Perspective Bangladesh”, organised by Marie Stopes Bangladesh and Team Associates on Tuesday night.

The High Court yesterday formed a three-member committee headed by the secretary to Ministry of Primary and Mass Education to inquire into the allegation of attempting to misappropriate money by changing the copyright and intellectual property rights of two books published on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

The High Court yesterday directed authorities to maintain status quo on works for constructing Arisha Economic Zone owned by ruling AL lawmaker (Dhaka-14) Aslamul Huq and on eviction of its structures near Turag River in Savar.

Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Atiqul Islam yesterday said they will not allow any illegal billboard in DNCC areas and remove all of those gradually.

Sanitation workers across different South Asian countries are working with little protective equipment and poor access to handwashing and cleaning facilities during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new report from WaterAid.

The Dhaka University authorities have decided to impose a ban on celebrating rag day on the university campus.

At least three people were killed and four injured after the oil tanker of a lorry exploded inside a private container depot in Chattogram’s Patenga this morning.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has frozen Tk 7.36 crore in different bank accounts of former BNP lawmaker Ruhul Kuddus Talukder Dulu and his wife Sabina Yasmin.

Md Shafiqul Islam, former deputy assistant director of Rab-1, yesterday gave his deposition before a Dhaka tribunal in the arms case filed against expelled leader of Jubo Mohila League Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman.