A rights organisation has served a legal notice to the government, requesting it to give Tk 1 crore in compensation in three days to each of the families

Today is the 40th homecoming day of Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Since its inception in 2006, Bomb Disposal Unit -- a specialised force of police trained to disarm bombs and other explosives devices -- has been

Eid-ul-Fitr, the largest religious festival of Muslims, was celebrated on Friday with due fervour and enthusiasm after a month of fasting.

BAF Shaheen English Medium College distributed Eid gifts among more than 200 economically disadvantaged coronavirus-affected people on May 12.

Senior Journalist Feeuri Khondoker died at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in the capital this afternoon. He was 70.

There will be five jamaats at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque on the day of Eid-ul-Fitr.

A total of 52 Bangladeshi citizens, who were stranded in Nepal due to suspension of regular flights after a surge of Covid-19 in the state, returned home yesterday by a special flight.

The stock of vaccines in Barishal division is running out quickly. According to Barishal Divisional Health Office, the vaccines would get used up in the next nine days only.

The stock of vaccines in Barishal division is running out quickly. According to Barishal Divisional Health Office, the vaccines would get used up in the next nine days only.

The government should allocate 20 percent of the next national budget (2021-22) for the education sector, to mitigate the learning loss of an estimated 4 crore students, and to tackle the predicted increase of dropout rate, demanded educationists and development workers, yesterday.

The Jatiya Sangsad will go to budget session on June 2.

With the killing of blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider in February 2013, banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team started a spate of attacks against free-thinkers, which continued till 2016.

The government’s recent approval of a study centre of a foreign university is conflicting with the Private University Act 2010 and the policy of non-profit higher education, said Association of Private Universities of Bangladesh (APUB) yesterday.

The country is likely to experience a rainy Eid-ul-Fitr, said Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) yesterday.

Fifty trees have been cut down to implement the third phase of Swadhinata Stambha project at Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital and 50 more may have to be felled for the project, Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque said yesterday.

Cutting down trees from a public space in the name of development work in a city like Dhaka is sort of a crime, said architect Rafiq Azam.

The government has directed all supermarkets, malls and shops of Dhaka city to adopt precautionary measures to stop the spread of Covid-19. However, the markets are struggling to maintain proper health and safety measures as there are large crowds of people shopping before Eid-ul-Fitr.

Retired schoolteacher Ratna Raha received her first dose of Covid-19 vaccine at Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) General Hospital on March 25. She is scheduled to get the second dose on May 25, but then news broke of the shortage of vaccines in the country and Ratna has been worrying for her second dose ever since.

Return of several hundred Bangladeshi migrant workers to their workplaces in the UAE has become uncertain as the Gulf country yesterday suspended entry for travellers from Bangladesh and three other Asian countries.