With the objective to eradicate late blight disease in potato, Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC) in Domar upazila is currently growing trial varieties of the crop that is resistant to the disease.

In 1948, when Dhirendranath Dutta’s proposal to recognise Bangla as one of the state languages of the then Pakistan was rejected in the parliament, protest raged like fire all over the erstwhile East Pakistan.

The nation is paying tributes to the martyrs of the 1952 Language Movement, marking 'Amar Ekushey', the Language Martyrs’ Day and International Mother Language Day.

A suspected rapist and murderer of a seven-year-old girl in Chapainawabganj was killed in what law enforcers claim was a gunfight at Horishpur area of Sadar upazila in the district.

The government announces the names of nine persons and an institution for the Independence Award for their outstanding contributions to the nation in various fields.

A mobile court sends five people including a Jubo League leader to jail for illegally lifting sand from Meghna River at Araihazar upazila in Narayanganj.

Police arrest a man on charge of raping his neighbour, a speech-impaired woman, in a village under Saidpur upazila in Nilphamari.

A student of class 10 commits suicide last night after she was allegedly raped in Rajshahi’s Puthia upazila on February 16.

Central Women’s University Vice-chancellor Professor Dr Perween Hasan has been elected chairperson of the trustee board of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB).

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) detains a Bangladesh national on Khalisakothal border in Kurigram’s Phulbari upazila.

Cox’s Bazar Civil Society and NGO Forum (CCNF) demands that the government make the relief management for Rohingya refugees transparent and form an authority regarding the matter.

A 20-year-old man killed his father and then dumped his body into a river in Azmeriganj upazila of Habiganj, police say.

A mobile court hands a headmaster 30 days’ jail term for assisting a SSC examinee to cheat during the examination in Kaunia upazila of Rangpur.

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) has decided it won’t go for the much-talked uniform admission tests to enrol students. Rather it would enrol students through its own admission test like previous years.

The High Court has directed the authorities concerned to suspend Md Durul Huda, a teacher of Rajshahi University School and College, who allegedly sexually harassed a student in October last year.

Nearly 3,000 garments workers of a factory in Savar blocked a road for two and a half hours demanding arrears.

Three alleged criminals are killed in alleged gunfights in Nawabganj upazila of Dinajpur and Pabna town.

Eight of the same family are hospitalised in Barguna’s Patharghata upazila, a day after one other member of their family died after exhibiting similar symptoms: fever, nausea and diarrhoea.

Documents of a case filed with Chief Judicial Magistrate’s Court in the district have been concealed allegedly by the bench assistant of the court.

A priest of a Hindu temple allegedly took his own life by hanging himself from the ceiling of his room at Sri Sri Madan Mohan Thakur Jiu Temple in Bhola Sadar upazila on Tuesday night.