The Public Service Commission (PSC) will conduct a preliminary test of only 100 marks and oral test of 100 marks instead of written test of 1,000 marks in recruiting some 3,600 nurses, Health Minister Mohammed Nasim said yesterday.

Dasharath Das, 22, of Tarashi village in Kotalipara of Gopalganj, has been suffering from brain tumour for at least four months.

Top civil bureaucrats yesterday directed government officials to be ingenious, promote creativity and focus on making innovation a functional and popular practice in policy and decision implementation to bring a qualitative change in the administration.

Jahangirnagar Sangskritik Jote kept the social science and new arts faculties locked for some two and a half hours since

Nagorik Oikyo yesterday expressed grave concern over its Convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna's health and urged the authorities concerned to shift him to a hospital and ensure proper treatment.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) suspends 16 taxation and deputy taxation officers temporarily for negligence of duty.

Journalist Shafik Rehman, who was remanded twice over an alleged plot to abduct and kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, has been sent to prison after completion of his remand sentence.

Seven people took part in the killing of LGBT magazine editor Xulhaz Mannan and his friend Mahbub Tonoy on Monday evening, according to a security guard who was also injured in the attack.

A civil society platform has questioned the role of the Election Commission over its role in the union parishad elections in view of the poll-time irregularities and violence.

Terming the twin murder of LGBT magazine editor Xulhaz Mannan and his friend Mahbub Tonoy as “isolated incident”, DMP commissioner advises people not to panic.

Bangladesh Coast Guard (east zone) recovered 1 lakh pieces of Yaba tablets, worth around Tk 5 crore, from Gohira Chipatolirghat area of

Police recovered body of an ethnic minority student and a former flight attendant, in two separate incidents, in the capital yesterday.

Awami League-backed yellow panel won all the eleven executive posts in the election of Chittagong University Teachers' Association

Earthquakes jolted the country 516 times in 14 years since 2001, the maximum, 42, in 2002, Relief and Disaster Management Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya replied to lawmakers' queries in parliament yesterday.

Alleging that Proctor Prof Tapan Kumar Saha directed the police action on Monday's blockade, Jahangirnagar Sangskritik Jote yesterday

A photo exhibition was held at Dhaka University (DU) marking the 60th birth anniversary of renowned Bangladeshi photojournalist Pavel Rahman.

The 54th death anniversary of Sher-e-Bangla AK Fazlul Haque will be observed today with due respect.

Mahfuzul Haque Khan, former news editor of now-defunct daily Bangladesh Observer, died from old age complications in the capital's Square Hospital yesterday, aged 70.

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday arrested a fertiliser trader for allegedly misappropriating over Tk 3.8 crore of Agrani Bank with the help of the then Jessore's Noapara branch manager in 2009.

AKM Rezaur Rahman, former additional secretary, died on Sunday while under follow-up treatment in Bangkok Hospital, subsequent to open heart surgery in Dhaka on April 4. He was 75.