A bill titled “Sheikh Hasina Medical University, Khulna Bill, 2021” has been placed in parliament to set up a medical university in Khulna division, aiming to expand the facilities for medical education, research and healthcare services in the region.

Rights organisations -- Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) and International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) -- have demanded justice for 14-year-old Lakingme Chakma who was abducted, converted and married off to one of her abductors, and eventually murdered in Teknaf of Cox's Bazar last year.

A person was killed and 15 were injured as a bus hit an auto-rickshaw on Hemayetpur-Singair-Manikganj regional highway this morning.

A parliamentary body today finalised three bills to publish the results of the HSC and equivalent examinations by January 28.

Criminals stabbed a local Juba League leader in Kulaura municipality area on Sunday night.

A man was killed and six others severely injured in a clash between two groups of villagers over occupying a piece of disputed land in Kurigram’s Phulbari upazila on Sunday.

IRRI-Boro cultivation is going on in full swing in nine upazilas of the district.

Farming has a great potential across the world nowadays and a jobless educated man of Shahpur-Ghighati village in Kaliganj upazila sets the recent example by becoming a successful entrepreneur through gourd farming.

In 2017, the government took up a four-and-a-half-year project, worth over Tk 3,900 crore, to construct bridges in rural areas for boosting agricultural and non-agricultural productions as well as sending the produce to the market easily.

Bangladesh, Myanmar and China are scheduled to hold a virtual tripartite meeting tomorrow to discuss ways to expedite the Rohingya repatriation process.

Information Minister Hasan Mahmud today said Al-Qaeda has no presence in Bangladesh, adding that the USA should focus more on tackling homegrown extremism.

Police arrested suspended sub-inspector Rukon Uddin Bhuiyan of the Armed Police Battalion in Sylhet and four others while they were selling yaba in Sylhet city this afternoon.

Two policemen were killed when a stone-laden truck hit their motorcycle at Hatibandha in Lalmonirhat.

President Abdul Hamid today told the parliament that opposition parties will have to play a constructive role in maintaining transparency, accountability, tolerance to others’ views, human rights, consolidation of the rule of law, and the march forward of the nation.

A total of 249 freedom fighters of Jashore Sadar upazila, who were included in gazettes till 2010, will be verified as the gazettes were issued without the approval of Jatiyo Muktijoddha Council.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) have arrested three persons from Feni early today on charges of possesion of drugs.

Ferry services on the key Paturia-Daulatdia route resumed 10 hours after suspension due to dense fog.

The Bahrain government has regularised visas of 30,000 Bangladeshis amid the COVID-19 pandemic under the nine-month general amnesty (from April to December) last year with 25,000 more irregular Bangladeshis there.

The son of a local influential trader attacked a tea-stall owner in Mirzapur upazila and beat him up allegedly after the latter failed to serve him tea with milk.

Washing hands is one of the major preventions that can help people from getting infected from the deadly virus, but most of the hand wash basins, set up in different public places of Nilphamari when the first wave of Covid-19 hit the country last year, are not working.