Aman Momtaz Moudud, only son of BNP standing committee member Moudud Ahmed, died early yesterday.

Projecting its success in achieving key Millennium Development Goals (MDG), Bangladesh will announce its full commitment to meet the new targets to be set up by the United Nations in its current general assembly (UNGA).

For years, airlines have penalized luggage for weighing too much. Now at least one carrier is applying that same logic to its flight attendants.

Government scraps 7.5 percent VAT on private universities and medical colleges’ tuition fees in face of mass student protests. The decision has been announced in a notice issued from the finance ministry.

Students demonstrating for withdrawal of value added tax (VAT) from private universities’ tuition fees pass another day on the streets peacefully.

The anti-VAT protest that erupted on Wednesday produces a large number of messages in the form of handwritten placards and street paintings – both serious and humorous – pointing out the absurdity of imposing VAT on education.

Students pursue mass protests in Dhaka and put road blockades along key points in the capital, severely disrupting traffic in strike against 7.5 percent VAT on private university tuition fees. They say protests will continue until the VAT is withdrawn.

Newcomer to the Bangladeshi movie scene, Nusrat Faria, has been cast for Bollywood as she is to star in Mumbai based film “Gawah: The Witness”.

A massive construction crane crashes into Mecca's Grand Mosque in stormy weather Friday, killing 87 people and injuring 184, Saudi authorities say, less than a fortnight before the hajj pilgrimage starts.

The day would probably be remembered in history for a long time to come. The country's first ever lesbian comic character -Dhee was launched through an event held at the British Council last week, on September 5.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith says the private university students will not have to pay any VAT.

Private university students hit the streets across Dhaka demanding withdrawal of the 7.5 percent VAT imposed on tuition fees - a day after police opened fire on East West University students demonstrating on the same demand.

The basic salary of civil servants will almost double under the new national pay scale with staffs in the lower rungs getting the highest raise. A new pay structure for civil servants and defence staffs was yesterday approved by the cabinet with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. Of the 20 grades, the basic salary will rise by 95 percent in the highest grade to become Tk 78,000 (fixed) and in the lowest grade by 101 percent to stand at Tk 8,250.

The makers of “Jazbaa”, the comeback film of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, have released the first song of the film.

Aamra aPhone brings free Wi-Fi services to special hotspots around city

All mobile phone users will have to re-register their numbers by the end of this year as the government has decided to prepare a new subscribers database to check criminal activities through cellular networks.

The government has taken steps to recruit 478 new judges for lower courts in phases to address the massive backlog of pending cases.

Shahriar, a SUST student found hanging at a student mess on Thursday night, had received repeated death threats, the last known one

People from different walks of lives came down heavily on social media following the footage that showed a school-going girl being beaten by a boy in Habiganj Sadar.

The image of little Aylan Kurdi is hammering home the Syrian migrant crisis to the world, largely through social media.