Myanmar Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Minister Win Myat Aye yesterday hinted at taking actions against senior Myanmar

The government should formulate a comprehensive coastal zone-specific building code as the country's maritime areas witness massive development activities, experts said yesterday.

Algeria suffered its deadliest ever air catastrophe yesterday when a military plane crashed near the capital, killing 257 people on

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday announced scrapping of the quota system in public service recruitments, and asked students to return to classes ending demonstrations over the demand for quota reforms.

Transport system in the capital and other parts of the country collapsed yesterday as thousands of students demonstrating for reforms in the civil service quota system blocked key points in the capital and major highways. Commuters remained stuck for several hours in their vehicles on city roads and highways amid sweltering heat.

Former chairman of Farmers Bank Audit Committee Mahabubul Haque Chisty, his son and two officials of the bank landed in jail yesterday after the Anti-Corruption Commission arrested them in a Tk 160-crore laundering case.

A Comilla court yesterday rejected BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's bail petition in a case filed over instigating an arson attack on a bus in the district's Chauddagram upazila that killed eight people in 2015.

“I want to go home,” was the last request made by college student Rajib Hossain, when he last spoke to his uncle, Jahidul Islam, around 9:30pm on Monday.

The call for reforming the quota system for government jobs was voiced just a year after it was introduced in 1972 and since then, several public service reform committees and the Public Service Commission itself, the body that oversees government recruitment, have objected to the policy.

The government has no plans to impose VAT on private universities, Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal yesterday said quoting Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

The finance minister said quota had to be in place, but questions may be raised over its percentage.

In a dramatic turn of events, two factions of demonstrators, who had been demanding reforms in the civil service quota system, reunited yesterday and called for nationwide road blockade and strike at universities and colleges from today.

The much-debated Digital Security Bill-2018 was placed in parliament last night.

The charred remains of furniture frames near the main gate of the Dhaka University vice-chancellor's residence gave little hint to the

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged India to put more pressure on Myanmar to take back over one million Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh.

Within an hour after a leader of students yesterday announced one month's suspension of their street agitation for quota reforms in the public service recruitment, another group defied it and vowed to continue their demonstration.

Lawmakers expressed deep resentment over the road conditions in the country and said it hurt their image.

A Tangail court yesterday sentenced a man to death for the 2012 murder of labour rights leader Aminul Islam, an incident that had sparked protests and criticism at home and abroad.

US President Donald Trump said there would be a "big price to pay" for a chemical attack against a besieged rebel-held town in Syria where medical aid groups reported dozens of people were killed by poison gas.

At least 75 people were injured yesterday as police clashed with students demanding reforms in the quota system in public service, turning the capital's Shahbagh intersection and its adjacent areas into a battlefield.