Bangladesh, a nation freed from the occupation of Pakistan rule, pays warm and rich tribute to the memory of Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy, whose contributions to democracy are deeply cherished by the people of this country. Today his ninth dearth anniversary is observed.

Entrepreneur sets up apple orchard on a Sirajganj shoal after bringing saplings from India’s Himachal Pradesh.

Moscow will open its new Covid-19 vaccination centres tomorrow and the first people to receive the shot will be teachers, doctors and social workers, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said yesterday.

Cyclone Burevi hit Sri Lanka overnight, rattling the island nation but leaving it relatively unscathed on its way to southern India, officials said yesterday.

Two local courts in Sirajganj and Gazipur yesterday sent two arrestees to jail over the rape of a schoolgirl and a woman respectively.

A senior Republican official in the US state of Georgia said Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s unfounded claims of election fraud were fueling threats against poll workers.

Workers Party yesterday at a virtual press briefing called upon all patriotic and democratic forces to get united to resist the “evil powers” who are opposing the construction of Bangabandhu’s sculpture and misusing religion for their personal gain.

Thirty-five people died of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, according to a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Pakistan President ZA Bhutto has said in Islamabad that it would be unwise for Bangladesh Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

After earning handsome profits last year, onion farmer Kawsar Mollah from Mothpara village in Pabna’s Sujanagar upazila targeted cultivating onions on 10 bighas of land this year.

A bust of Madhusudan Dey in front of Dhaka University’s Madhur Canteen -- who was the founder of the canteen and martyred during the Liberation War -- was found partly damaged on Wednesday night.

A group of clerics, mostly leaders of the Hefajat-e Islam, has come up with a “fatwa” declaring building of idols or sculptures of any person or animal is forbidden in Islam.

A promise of dialogue between the Cuban government and artists calling for greater freedom of expression seems to have stalled, after communist authorities blamed a protest on US interference.

The US would continuously support Bangladesh through humanitarian assistance and political engagement for a solution to the Rohingya crisis.

President Justice Abu Sayeed Chowdhury today says that the new nation Bangladesh would extend full cooperation to India for establishment of durable peace in the subcontinent to make it an abode of peace.

Two youths yesterday threw a “suspicious black bag” at a security guard of the US embassy in the capital, following an altercation.

Valiant freedom fighter Shahzaman Mozumder Bir Protik breathed his last at a clinic in the capital yesterday.

A sculpture of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will be set up in Ankara, the capital of Turkey, Turkish Ambassador to Bangladesh Mustafa Osman Turan yesterday said.

Bangladesh Coast Guard detained seven Myanmar nationals with 280,000 yaba tablets from a boat in the Bay of Bengal in Teknaf’s Katabunia area early yesterday.

While prosecution of rapists is essential, it is just as important to ensure redress for survivors of rape and other gender-based violence through compensation, said speakers at a webinar last night.