A destitute elderly woman who was rescued from Mirzapur Bus Stand area four months ago finally got a shelter at an old home on Monday.

Faridpur farmers are expecting a bumper production of mustard in the current season due to favourable weather.

A section of concerned citizens and green activists yesterday at a human chain in Srimangal town demanded withdrawal of a government plan to fell trees in Chautoli Beat near the Lawachhara reserve forest.

Today, the 18th of December, marks the day when Pabna was liberated from Pakistani occupation forces in 1971.

Hundreds of schoolgirls took part in cycling in different areas of the district yesterday as part of an awareness campaign against social menaces like child marriage, dowry, stalking, drug abuse and militancy.

Ten primary schools founded by the inhabitants of former enclave areas in Lalmonirhat’s Patgram upazila are yet to get government funding for teachers’ salary and stipend and school feeding programme for around 1600 students, much to the frustration of the stakeholders.

Not a single moment is wasted inside the Bhitarband Shishu Park in Kurigram’s Nageshwari upazila.

Japan has committed to provide a grant of $85,247 to a Bangladeshi NGO -- National Development Programme (NDP) – for training people on loom in Sirajganj.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleges that the government has published the “Pakistan prepared list intending to exclude the genuine Razakar”.

The meeting of Joint Rivers Commission of Bangladesh with India over updating data on six common rivers scheduled for tomorrow is postponed.

The High Court directs the government to include Mohalladars and Dofadars of the village police to 20th and 19th grades respectively of the national time scale and to pay their due salaries and allowances as per the time scale since June 2, 2011.

Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan has sought assistance from Japan for building an alternative bridge to replace century-old Hardinge Bridge in Pabna.

Australia has announced Jeremy Bruer as next Australian High Commissioner to Bangladesh.

The Supreme Court has stayed a High Court order asking the government to allow Ahmed Shafat, the key accused of sensational Banani double rape case, to go abroad.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Military Secretary Major General Mia Mohammad Zainul Abedin Bir Bikram passes away at a hospital in Singapore.

The country’s poverty rate came down at 20.5 percent while the extreme poverty rate came down at 10.5 percent in June this year.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina alerts the countrymen to conspiracies of the anti-liberation forces to foil independence and turn Bangladesh into a failed state, asserting that the plots of the “Pakistani-lovers” will never be successful.

Chief Prosecutor Office of the International Crimes Tribunal holds a press briefing to protest the inclusion of Ghulam Arieff Tipoo on the Razakars’ list.

The government list of Razakars has sparked a huge protest in Barguna as the name of the president of Barguna Mukti Sangram Parishad, formed during the Liberation War in 1971, is among others on the list.

The High Court questions the legality of few sections of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) rules that curtailed police’s authority to directly record corruption cases.