A Chattogram court today placed a student of Chattogram University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) who was later suspended, on a two-day remand for derogatory remarks about religion on social media.

A woman, who suffered burn injuries following a gas cylinder explosion in Biswanath upazila of Sylhet district one week ago, died at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.

Three organisations of Rajshahi University (RU) employees laid siege to the university’s administrative building this morning, demanding easy corporate loan with low interest rate.

A journalist alleged that leaders and activists of Hefajat-e-Islam assaulted him and forced him to prove his Muslim identity when he was covering the demonstrations of the organisation on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Narayanganj’s Shimrail area yesterday.

To control dust pollution in the capital and maintain air quality, Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) have begun operating two truck-mounted

Even though Naib Uddin Ahmed was an internationally renowned photographer, memories of his work are slowly fading in the minds of his own people in Mymensingh.

Sporadic clashes between hartal supporters and law enforcement agencies in Narayanganj and Hefajat-e-Islam and ruling party men in different parts of the capital marked yesterday’s dawn-to-dusk hartal.

Rimi Akhtar (8) is suffering from Down’s Syndrome, a genetic disorder, as well as multiple ventricular septal defect -- which means she has a number

Zafruddin Ahmad (Kaisar), son of late Azizuddin Ahmad -- a former central minister of Pakistan Central Government, died on Saturday at a clinic in the capital from a heart attack.

Four people were killed and two were injured in road accidents in two districts during the last two days, according to reports from our correspondents.

The Primary and Mass Education Ministry yesterday extended the closure of primary schools and kindergartens to May 22.

Nipun Roy Chowdhury, a member of BNP’s central executive committee, was arrested yesterday on the charge of conspiracy of sabotage during Hefajat-e-Islam’s hartal.

A chamber judge of the Appellate Division of Supreme Court yesterday refused to stay a High Court verdict over formulating a law or rule regarding imposition of embargo on corruption suspects or accused from leaving the country.

People’s presence on roads and bazar areas in Rajshahi is thin during the dawn-to-dusk hartal enforced by Hefajat-e-Islam today.

A flight from Turkey landed at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram carrying supplies for a field hospital for Rohingyas yesterday.

As part of Bangabandhu’s birth centenary celebrations, Dhaka University Alumni Association Khulna (DUAAK) launched the book ‘Chira Unnata Shir’, a

Police yesterday claimed to have arrested nine inter-district motorbike thieves and recovered 20 stolen motorbikes conducting drives in different districts for the last two days.

Transport owners yesterday vowed to operate buses in the capital and adjacent areas, defying today’s hartal called by Hefajat-e-Islam.

Bringing students back to school once those reopen after the Covid-19 pandemic will be difficult, but keeping them in classes might be even tougher, speakers said at an online discussion programme yesterday.

BNP yesterday announced demonstrations on Monday and Tuesday, protesting what it said was the “killing” of people in different parts of the country on Independence Day.