Today is the 25th death anniversary of Dr AR Mallick, an eminent educationist and the first technocrat finance minister of the country.

Artisans in Thakurgaon are worried about making desired profit supplying idols of Swaraswati, the goddess of learning, as they are yet to get good response from clients for the closure of educational institutions due to coronavirus.

Two groups of villagers are divided over demolishing a Mughal-era mosque and building a new one in place of it.

A motorcyclist was killed after being hit by a passenger bus at the Derboalia area on Khulna-Mawa highway in Bagerhat this evening.

An African lioness died today due to sickness at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park in Gazipur’s Sreepur.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) last night rescued a madrasa student seven days after his abduction in Feni Sadar upazila.

At least 11,596 new infections were recorded and 33 people died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8:00 am today, said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Roger Federer believes he will know by "April-May" whether or not he will be able to return to tennis.

Senegal are through to a second consecutive Africa Cup of Nations final after breaking Burkina Faso hearts in their last-four tie in Yaounde on Wednesday as Abdou Diallo, Idrissa Gana Gueye and Sadio Mane scored second-half goals to secure a 3-1 victory.

One cricketer and two support staff of the Bangladesh women’s cricket team have tested positive for Covid-19 just hours before the Tigresses were scheduled to leave for New Zealand for the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup in March-April this year.

In January 1952, I was the vice-president of the East Pakistan Muslim Chattra League. After Nazimuddin’s speech at Paltan Maidan (January 27, 1952),

A faction of the country’s petrol pump owners yesterday threatened to go on strike from February 17 across the country if the government does not increase their commission.

The holy Shab-e-Meraj will be observed in the country on the night of February 28.

Bangladesh Satellite Company Ltd (BSCL) yesterday signed a cooperation contract with Russian company Glavkosmos for launching Bangabandhu Satellite-2 within December next year.

US President Joe Biden has approved sending additional forces to eastern Europe, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday, as Washington reinforces its allies against what it describes as a Russian threat to invade Ukraine.

Police today arrested the prime accused – a microbus driver – in a case filed over the death of a child, a cancer patient, who died in an ambulance during a scuffle between the accused and the ambulance driver.

Mollah Rezaul Karim, Dhaka’s Forest Conservator of Wildlife and Nature Conservation Circle, has been appointed as the project director of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park in Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila.

Petrol pump owners today threatened to go on strike from February 17 across the country if the government does not increase their commission.

At least 12,193 new infections were recorded and 36 people died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8:00 am today, said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The selectors included wicket-keeper batter Nuzhat Tasnia as the second travelling reserve player in the Bangladesh squad for the upcoming ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2022 in New Zealand, scheduled to be held in March-April.