A mobile court yesterday handed down prison sentences to two madrasa teachers for providing cheat sheets to examinees at a JDC examination centre in Thakurgaon Sadar upazila, while another court in Lalmonirhat expelled seven teachers from another centre for the same offence.

The 43rd death anniversary of Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani, a legendary political leader of the sub-continent, will be observed today.

A doctor and a manger of Bandhan Hospital and Diagnostic Centre were arrested on charge of negligence of duty that led to the death of a female patient in Jashore town on Friday night.

Robbers killed a staffer of a stranded cargo boat and realised ransom for release of an abductee at Elisha of Bhola Sadar upazila on Thursday.

Shukkur Dewan saw so much in his life of 70 years. He even saw his wife and himself living in a neighbour’s cowshed after their son’s deception got them evicted from their own house.

Cyclon Bulbul that hit the country’s coastal areas on the night of November 9 damaged crops on some 7,421 hectares of land in 42 upazilas of six districts in Barishal division, said Aftab Uddin, additional director of Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) in the division.

Police detained a woman in Sadarpur upazila yesterday in connection with a case for killing her stepson.

BNP will stage demonstration across the country including Dhaka on Monday protesting the abnormal price spiral of onion and other daily essentials.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reaches Dubia on a four-day official visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to attend Dubai Air Show-2019 and other programmes.

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader urges the party leaders and workers to say ‘no’ to corrupt people, extortionists, tender manipulators and land grabbers.

Primary Education Completion Examination and its equivalent Ebtedayee Education Completion Examination will begin across the country tomorrow.

Like Myanmar, its friends will also feel the “pressure” amid significant development on “legal front” that Bangladesh needs to utilise prudently to keep up the growing global pressure on Myanmar until a solution to Rohingya crisis is found, say foreign affairs analysts.

Students of Rajshahi University block the Dhaka-Rajshahi highway hours after some Chhatra League activists of the university unit allegedly beat up one of their fellows at a dormitory.

As onion prices spiral out of control fuelled by a supply shortage, a huge amount of rotten onion was found to be dumped in Chaktai canal adjacent to Karnaphuli River.

The body of a missing student of Faridpur Medical College was recovered from Munsibazar area in Faridpur.

Rail communications from Dhaka to northern districts and Dhaka to southern districts resume 30 hours after a passenger train derailed in Ullapara of Sirajganj yesterday.

After all its mechanisms went in vain to cool down the overheated onion market, the government has decided to fly in onion from abroad next week in a bid to pull reins of the onion price.

BNP Standing Committee Member Goyeshwar Chandra Roy suggests his party’s lawmakers to come out of the parliament as they are denied space of raising voices against misdeeds and misrules of the ruling quarter.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave Dhaka for Dubai tomorrow on a four-day official visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to attend Dubai Air Show-2019 and other programmes.

A Bogura rickshaw puller sets an example of honesty by returning Tk 18.50 lakh to its owner after finding the money in a bag on his rickshaw this morning.