Veteran journalist Altaf Mahmud was buried at his family graveyard in Golkhali village under Galachipa upazila in Patuakhali yesterday.

A platform of Urdu-speaking people residing in Dhaka yesterday demanded that they be rehabilitated by being provided unused land at Baunia and Rupnagar area.

If given the responsibility to manage the storm drainage system, the two Dhaka city corporations would play a role in resolving the acute urban flooding and water logging in the capital, Mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation Annisul Huq said yesterday.

Ray of Light Care Services, a comprehensive and person-centred care giving service in Bangladesh, launched a new service named “Shanniddo”, said a press release yesterday.

Today is the seventh death anniversary of Md Shahidul Islam Pannu, director of Sarah Advertising Limited.

Nurul Islam, former Awami League publicity affair secretary, died of old-age complications in his Rayer Bazar residence in the capital on Friday. He was 80.

Last time Munni's parents saw her, she was only nine-years old.

Researchers, civil society members and traders yesterday urged the government to boost awareness campaigns and reinforce vigilance for safe food by bringing regulatory agencies under a single entity.

Development activities have been going on in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in full swing since the peace accord was signed in 1997, and none other than the Awami League-led government thought about changing the fate of the hill people, speakers said yesterday.

The 192nd birth anniversary of Michael Madhusudan Dutt, one of the most famous poets and dramatists in Bangla literature, is being celebrated today with President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paying rich tributes in separate messages.

Altaf Mahmud, president of the pro-Awami League faction of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists, dies at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University in Dhaka.

Nazmul Hasan, former executive director of Bangladesh Bank, died of cardiac arrest in the capital's Apollo Hospital

Water transport workers are likely to go on an indefinite countrywide strike Tuesday midnight to press home their 15-

MA Aziz, acting president of Dhaka city unit of Awami League, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday. He was 67.

People of all faiths should jointly launch an idealistic battle against terrorists, who are killing innocents in the name

Freedom fighter Saleh Ahmed, a lawyer, died on Friday while undergoing treatment for cardiac arrest at Dhaka

Today is the 47th Mass Upsurge Day that signifies the de facto fall of the 10-year military regime of General Ayub

Bangladesh's women's rights activists have been waging movements for decades seeking a women-friendly law

Hundreds of indigenous and Bangalee farmers of Gaibandha yesterday staged a demonstration in the capital

Movement of all trains on Jamalpur-Mymensingh route were stopped for four hours as agitated locals put logs on