Bangladeshis across the globe need to raise their voices to earn global recognition of genocide committed by Pakistan occupation forces and their collaborators during Bangladesh’s Liberation War in 1971, speakers said at a webinar on Thursday.

Visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday said he will do his best to ink the treaty with Bangladesh on water sharing of Teesta and other common rivers with India.

“May every visitor to this revered ground honour the sacred memory of the millions who were slain but not silenced,” wrote Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Visitors’ Book, in a touching tribute at the National Martyrs’ Memorial in Savar yesterday.

One day, I was looking for birds in Hail Haor, a low-lying wetland near Moulvi Bazar where monsoon rain accumulates in large saucer-shaped depressions creating beels and fishponds.

Chaos ensued at Baitul Mukarram National Mosque yesterday, as protesters, who are against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to

At least 17 people have died as a microbus caught fire after head-on collision with a Hanif Paribahan bus in Rajshahi's Katakhali area this afternoon.

Firefighters have brought under control a fire that broke out at the Meena Bazar outlet in Dhaka's Dhanmondi area.

Four volunteers of Bidyanondo Foundation were injured in an attack while they were distributing food among children at Kalshi in Dhaka yesterday afternoon.

Australia has announced $10 million in emergency assistance for those affected by the fire in the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar.

Poet Zakaria Chowdhury, a language movement veteran, an expatriate organiser of the Liberation War and former adviser to the government, died yesterday, aged 87, said a press release.

As Bangladesh transitions from least-developed to middle-income country, democratic values, rule of law and use of renewable energy will be some of the major issues that the country should improve on, said a Swedish minister.

A Dhaka court yesterday accepted the charges brought against nine accused in a case filed over the attack on former US ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Bernicat’s convoy in August 2018.

Safayet Ullah alias Sagor (19), a small trader at Chattogram’s Sandweep area has been suffering in jail for five and a half months without trial in a case filed under the Digital Security Act for making a derogatory comment about the prime minister on a Facebook post, although the post was circulated from the Facebook ID of Safayet Hossain Ayan.

The barbed wire fencing around the camps greatly hindered Rohingya refugees’ attempts to escape the massive fire that occurred in Cox’s Bazar on March 22, stated a Human Rights Watch statement yesterday.

The nation celebrates the golden jubilee of independence today to pay tributes to the martyrs and valiant sons of the land who laid down their lives for the country’s independence.

Members of the Bomb Disposal Unit of the Counter-Terrorism Unit of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) today destroyed an old mortar shell at Hathazari upazila of Chattogram.

Traffic on various important and main roads of the capital will be controlled from 10:00am tomorrow and will continue for the next day, with some roads also set to be temporarily closed on March 26 and 27.

Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation has carried out various activities, marking the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the golden jubilee of independence.

Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad yesterday said they have set a target to establish branch of Probashi Kalyan Bank in the country’s each upazila.

Japan has provided a grant of Tk 70 lakh to Kumudini Welfare Trust of Bengal Ltd and Tk 20 lakh to Jaago Foundation Trust.