Sculptors are passing busy time to make idols of Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of learning, in different areas of Jhenidah, as Saraswati Puja will be held on January 30.

The government defers beginning of the Secondary School Certificate and equivalent examinations to February 3 from February 1.

Habibur Rahman was 30 years old when he left home for a business trip and never returned.

Jatiya Oikyafront urges the Election Commission to change its stance of using the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) in the Dhaka north and south city corporation elections scheduled for January 30.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen says that the instances of extra-judicial killings are much lower in number in Bangladesh compared to the developed countries like the United States.

Election Commission defers the Dhaka city elections date to February 1, following increasing pressure from different quarters including the Hindu community and Dhaka university students.

Bangladesh Hindu-Bouddha-Christian Oikya Parishad withdraws its weeklong countrywide demonstration programme over deferral of the date of the city polls.

At least 30 passengers of a picnic bus are injured after the vehicle fell into a ditch on the Chattogram-Cox's Bazar highway in Ramu upazila.

Three members of a family are killed and two others injured as a private car carrying them hit a roadside electric pole in Jashore town.

Awami League MP of Bogura -1 constituency Abdul Mannan dies of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Dhaka this morning at the age of 67.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen says Bangladesh is now focused on economic diplomacy to boost the economy by bringing businesses to the country.

Some 47 eminent citizens of the country in a joint statement voice condemnation and protest over a case filed against the Prothom Alo editor and others in connection with a death of Naimul Abrar Rahat, a student of Dhaka Residential Model College.

Awami League lawmaker for Barguna-2 constituency Shawkat Hasanur Rahman Rimon and 12 others have been sued on charge of contempt of court in connection with vandalising a temple and grabbing land in Charduari area of Pathorghata upazila.

A compartment of a freight train derails at the home signal of Gouripur Railway Station this evening, disrupting rail communication between Mymensingh and Chattogram through Bhairab in Kishoreganj.

A youth is fatally crushed under a train while crossing the rail tracks in Pubail area in Gazipur.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says the government has nothing to do with the Dhaka city polls date though it coincides with Saraswati Puja.

Chinese Ambassador in Dhaka Li Jiming has said China will show highest respect to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in his birth centenary this year, as it coincides with the celebration of 45th anniversary of Dhaka-Beijing diplomatic ties.

Some 109 more Bangladeshi workers were deported from Saudi Arabia last night.

Two people are killed and six others injured in a head-on collision between two buses on Cox’s Bazar-Chattogram highway in Patiya upazila of Chattogram.

Two people have been killed as a bus hit them in Dhaka’s Jatrabari area.