Fire broke out at a four-storey building on DC Road in Chattogram city’s West Bakalia area this afternoon.

According to a study conducted by Nirapad Sarak Chai, a road safety movement led by actor and activist Ilias Kanchan, based on reports published by different media outlets, as many as 4,092 road accidents took place across Bangladesh in 2020, taking 4,969 lives and injuring 5,058 more people.

Asking the students staging protests on the streets to return to their educational institutions, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said they should not vandalise vehicles.

The entrepreneurial spirit unleashed by the Liberation War has propelled Bangladesh’s remarkable economic growth and also led to an inequitable society, experts said at a development conference yesterday.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain has ordered lower courts and tribunals across the country to dispose of cases filed in connection with harming communal harmony within 90 working days.

With the historic Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord stepping into its 24th year today, some legal complexities involving the issues of CHT Regional Council are still now awaiting the final settlements.

Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi declared today that it did not worry India at all as to who called her aggressor when she had not committed any aggression.

The teachers of Khulna University of Engineering and Technology have called for abstention from academic activities as one of their colleagues died hours after his confinement by the Chhatra League activists on Tuesday.

The USA-based subscription streaming service and production company Netflix has got the Value-Added Tax (VAT) identification number from the National Board of Revenue (NBR).

Forest officials today recovered a female elephant's body from Banshkhali upazila of Chattogram.

The United Nations Climate Conference (COP26) in Glasgow did not meet all expectations; it, however, met many long-standing demands of Bangladesh, said Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Shahab Uddin today.

Bangladesh Airlines' Pilot Association (Bapa) today demanded the reinstatement of Biman’s senior pilot, Captain Mahbubur Rahman, who was terminated from Biman Bangladesh Airlines yesterday.

At least 121 dengue patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours till 8am today, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Prime Minister's ICT Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy today said that Awami League has already delivered on its promise to build Digital Bangladesh by the year 2021.

A 25-year-old man who was critically injured in an attack by supporters of a defeated Upazila Parishad election candidate in Naogaon’s Bodolgachhi, died in a Bogura hospital yesterday.

He was a man of many hats: a writer, a linguist, a teacher, a researcher, and a Language Movement veteran.

Every December, Amin Hemrom is overpowered by emotions -- so powerful that, on occasions, they lead him to tears of joy. On those days, he says, his heart beats faster and his breaths get heavier as he recalls the wartime memories.  

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the relations between Bangladesh and India have reached new heights.

The prime minister of Bangladesh, Tajuddin Ahmad, today said the proposal to send UN observers to Bangladesh was nothing but a “planned conspiracy” and “a foul attempt to protect the military regime from the back door”.

Rozina Akter set out to take care of the needy family when her husband was unable to earn a living due to physical illness. Now she is the only female among the drivers of nearly 10,000 battery-run auto rickshaws plying in Tangail town every day.