The Jatiya Sangsad will elect the next president within a month as the tenure of incumbent President Abdul Hamid nears an end.

The Victory Day morning of last year started like any other for the 85-year-old widow of a former Ispahani company director. She woke up, did her usual chores and had breakfast.

It will be a test for Chandika Hathurusingha and his charges as they look to overcome a disappointing start to 2018 and stay alive in the race for the final of the tri-series when they take on a spirited Zimbabwe side at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur today.

Parents should always keep an eye on their children, discuss various issues in their lives and encourage them to engage in cultural activities, family members of a number of militants came up with these suggestions yesterday.

Four bullet-hit bodies were recovered from Sadar and Jhikargacha upazilas in Jessore early yesterday after what police claimed were two gunfights between rival groups.

The World Bank has said the Rohingya refugee crisis is growing at a rapid pace in Cox's Bazar and there is an urgent need to support the host communities to cope with the influx and to help those extremely vulnerable.

President Donald Trump marked the first anniversary of his inauguration yesterday with his government in shutdown, accusing Democrats of taking Americans hostage with their demands and saying they "could have easily made a deal."

About 1,500 tonnes of fish remain stranded in the Chittagong port yard since January 1, after the food safety authorities made it mandatory for all imported fish to go through certain tests to detect the presence of heavy metals in them.

Rohingya leaders in a Bangladesh refugee camp have drawn up a list of demands they want Myanmar to meet before authorities begin sending back hundreds of thousands in a repatriation process expected to begin next week and last for two years.

Narayanganj City Corporation Mayor Selina Hayat Ivy suffered a brain haemorrhage and is now having difficulties in recalling many past events, one of the physicians treating her at the capital's Labaid Hospital said yesterday.

The Rohingya influx has caused a critical impact on the forest lands in Cox's Bazar as thousands of hectares have been destroyed for making makeshift camps and collecting firewood.

The Bangladesh cricketers may not speak openly about their excitement and eagerness to perform in the post-Chandika Hathurusingha era, especially against the team now led by their former coach, but the approach and attitude was evident on the field as they romped to their largest ODI win when they beat Sri Lanka by 163 runs at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday.

Students of seven colleges took to the streets at 11:30 am yesterday, blocking the capital's Nilkhet intersection for more than two hours. This resulted in lot of suffering for commuters who were stuck in long tailbacks because of the demonstration.

The High Court yesterday halted the felling of century-old trees along the Jessore-Benapole road following protests against a government decision to cut them down.

Just two weeks before going back to the navy, the Chittagong Port Authority chairman went on an eight-day official visit to South Africa and Morocco apparently to gather knowledge on how to improve the port's operation.

Although there is sufficient government land on both sides of the historical Jessore Road for its expansion, the local authorities seem to be hell-bent on doing the expansion by felling more than 2,300 trees, a several hundred of them nearly two centuries old.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday admitted in parliament that the country's banking sector was not completely without problems.

Bangladesh authorities failed to respond to repeated and serious allegations of secret detentions, enforced disappearances, and extrajudicial killings, denying the abuses instead of holding perpetrators accountable, Human Rights Watch said in its World Report 2018.

Tuesday's mayhem in Narayanganj was all about money.

The quality of the match was befitting of an occasion that the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) failed to commemorate to the satisfaction