On the 17th anniversary of the gruesome grenade attack, leaders and activists of Bangladesh Awami League and other organizations paid tribute to those who were killed on that dreadful day. Garlands and flowers were offered to honour their memory.

Falling debris has trapped a Bangladeshi construction worker at a site in Malaysia’s Petaling Jaya in an accident today.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen visited Bangladesh peacekeeping contingents in South Sudan on Thursday.

The Banani Building that was burning for over four hours has no minimum fire safety measures, fire officials said.

Detectives have arrested a convict in a case filed over the attack on motorcade of the then opposition leader and current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Satkhira in 2002.

Chief of Army Staff of Bangladesh, General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed, met Turkey’s President of Defense Industries Ismail Demer, and Deputy Minister of National Defence Muhsin Dere on Thursday.

Major (retd) Muqtadir Ali, a valiant freedom fighter and former chairman of Petrobangla, died yesterday at the Combined Military Hospital, Dhaka. He was 69, said Retired Armed Forces Officers Welfare Association in its website.

Lakshmipur municipality councilor Mohammad Raihan died of Covid-19 at a hospital in Dhaka early today.

The Taliban will be accountable for its actions and will investigate reports of reprisals and atrocities carried out by members, an official of the Islamist militant group told Reuters on Saturday.

Horror of deadly grenade attacks on her rally Saturday still haunts the Leader of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina.

Brazilian tattoo artist Michel Faro Prado has taken body modification to a new level by transforming himself into a devil look-alike.

When armed members of the Afghan Taliban knocked on the door of their Kabul apartment, the family of 16 inside had crammed into the bathroom, turned off the lights and mobile phones and covered the children's mouths to keep them quiet.

Noted writer Hasan Azizul Haque (83) was being flown to Dhaka this morning for better treatment.

A fire broke out at a building in Dhaka’s Banani area this morning.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday Britain would work with the Taliban if needed after the militants capture of Afghanistan, and defended his foreign minister who has come under fire for his handling of the situation.

The US military in Afghanistan sent helicopters to rescue over 150 Americans unable to reach the Kabul airport gates, an official said Friday, in the first evidence that US forces were willing and able to go beyond the US-secured compound to help people seeking evacuation.

Three motorcycle riders were killed after a bus ran them over at Katakhali area on the Bogura-Rangpur highway under Gaibandha's Gobindaganj upazila around 9pm today.

A union parishad chairman in Sirajganj has been suspended for allegedly taking money from people on the pretext of giving them houses under the Ashrayan project in Tarash upazila of Sirajganj.

A ready-made garment factory worker was killed after a bus hit her in Gazipur’s Kaliakoir area yesterday evening.

Over 500 trucks laden with goods were stuck at the Paturia ferry ghat today due to suspension of ferry service on Shimulia-Banglabazar route.