A Chhatra League leader punched an on-duty constable in the nose and bloodied his face for stopping him from going inside an examination centre in Pabna's Santhia upazila yesterday.

The mere act of going to school is a struggle for many girls across Bangladesh. Catcalls, lurid remarks and eve teasing are all too common. This curtails their desire to continue studies while guardians fear for the security of their daughters.

The Armed Forces Day is being observed today with due solemnity and enthusiasm marking the establishment of Bangladesh military during the Liberation War.

Terming the attack on the Hindus in Thakurbari village of Rangpur Sadar inhuman, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said the attackers, irrespective of their political affiliations, must be punished.

Efforts to form a three-way governing coalition in Germany collapsed yesterday, pitching Europe's biggest power into political crisis, and its president told parties they owed it to voters and European neighbours to form a government.

Former deputy speaker of parliament Akhtar Hamid Siddiqui passed away at a city hospital in Dhaka yesterday. He was 71.

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe was facing the end of his 37-year rule yesterday, as the once-loyal ZANU-PF party sacked him as its leader and told him to resign as head of state.

A woman was allegedly abducted and gang-raped by her former husband and his accomplices in Laxmipur's Kamalnagar upazila Friday night.

Eid-e-Miladunnabi will be observed in the country on December 2, commemorating the birth of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBuH) on this day of the month of Rabiul Awal.

A suspect in blogger Avijit Roy murder case yesterday confessed before a Dhaka court that he was among four Ansar Al Islam operatives who did a recce of the killing spot near TSC of Dhaka University five to six days before the murder.

Police have put up signs warning buses of punishment for stopping near the roundabout at Sonargaon intersection in the capital's Karwan Bazar.

An independent lawmaker in parliament yesterday demanded that the government probes the Bangladeshi businessmen whose names came up in the Paradise Papers.

Describing Myanmar army's atrocities on Rohingya people in Rakhaine State as “war crime” and “basic violation of human rights”, the visiting US senators have assured Bangladesh of extending all-out support to resolve the crisis.

Chancellor Angela Merkel will make a last push Sunday to forge a government, in a twin battle to save her political future and avert fresh elections that could destabilise Germany and Europe.

A multinational armada of aircraft and vessels battled high winds and giant waves Sunday as they scoured a patch of the south Atlantic for signs of a missing Argentine submarine.

Clashes erupted in a Nairobi slum Sunday after four bodies were found in the streets, hiking tensions on the eve of a Supreme Court ruling on the validity of last month's divisive election re-run.

A "drug addict" stabbed his mother and son to death in Natore last night, said police.

Charulata Bidyapith, a school initiated by six youths studying at different educational institutions in Chittagong, gives a ray of hope for underprivileged children to get an education.

Ruling Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday crossed paths with his BNP counterpart Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir at Saidpur Airport in Rangpur.

Businessman Aniruddha Kumar Roy returned home on Thursday, over two and a half months after he had been abducted from the capital's Gulshan area.