Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today receives a 10-man deputation of the Bangladesh Secondary School Teachers Association at his official residence.

When most people are busy pursuing personal interest, there are some who strive to change the society.

Two more pre-1965 cross-border rail links between Bangladesh and India will be restored this year, Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said.

Stanford University has informed students that beginning today, classes will be held online for the remainder of the winter quarter because of the growing spread of the new coronavirus.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday said the coronavirus outbreak might affect foreign guests’ presence at the celebrations of “Mujib Borsho”.

The world’s only known albino orangutan has been spotted alive and well in a Borneo rainforest, more than a year after she was released into the wild, conservationists say.

At least 20 people in Pakistan are dead and dozens more injured after torrential rainstorms collapsed several homes, officials said yesterday.

Saudi authorities have detained three princes including King Salman’s brother and nephew on charges of plotting a coup, the US media reported Friday, signalling a further consolidation of power by the kingdom’s de facto ruler.

A speech-impaired seven-year-old girl was raped in the city’s Kamrangirchar area on Friday night.

Khaleda Zia’s younger sister Selima Islam yesterday expressed doubt whether they would be able to take the BNP chief out of hospital alive as the “government was delaying her release from jail”.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordered the Turkish coastguard to stop migrants from making risky Aegean sea crossings, as fresh clashes erupted yesterday pitting migrants against Greek border police.

Bangabandhu in a meeting with labour leaders says fresh elections to the trade unions using secret ballots will be held soon. He also assures them that the representatives elected by the workers will only be allowed to represent the trade unions.

Bodies of five more passengers, including three of a family, who drowned in the Rajshahi boat capsize on Friday were recovered yesterday, raising the death toll to six.

Go to the CNG-run autorickshaw stand in Gazipur’s Board Bazar area, you can’t miss a three-wheeler with stickers on its front, back, sides and roof, reading “free for the poor, helpless and the physically-challenged”.

Brac has been ranked the top NGO in the world in 2020, for the fifth consecutive year.

Nearly 90 percent of the world’s population -- of every gender -- holds some prejudice against women, according to a UN study published Thursday, ahead of International Women’s Day.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today informally meets his cabinet colleagues and briefs them about his talks with the Soviet leaders.

Nothing could stop Nelima Das. Born in the marginalised Robi Das community, where most members are cobblers by profession, she could not escape the curse of early marriage.

A five-year-old girl drowned and 23 other people went missing when two engine boats carrying a bridal party sank in the Padma in Rajshahi city’s Sreerampur area yesterday evening.

Four fugitive suspects go on trial in the Netherlands on Monday charged with the murder of 298 passengers and crew aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 which was shot down with a Russian-made missile over eastern Ukraine in July 2014.