Fire Service deploys five engines

Sealed empty drum exploded while being cut

Prof Ali Riaz’s statement misrepresented, it says

Chief adviser meets China-Bangladesh Partnership Forum delegation at Jamuna

Departmental heads directed to initiate disciplinary action

BNP chairman urges social and state support to ensure opportunity, inclusion

Deployment began yesterday, following directives from EC

At least 42 incidents of communal violence, including 11 killings and one rape, were reported across the country in January, raising concerns about the safety of religious and ethnic minorities ahead of the upcoming national election, said Hindu Bouddha Christian Oikya Parishad yesterday.

Choked with silt and reduced to a fraction of its former width, the Bhadra River now forces locals,

There is little doubt that one area of Bangladesh is poised to become a major commercial centre in the future.

Nine-year-old Mim Akhter sat quietly at the doorway of her family’s small home in an Ashrayan project at Raozan upazila of Chattogram yesterday.

The interim government yesterday gave the final approval to a draft ordinance aimed at preventing sexual harassment at workplaces and educational institutions.

Three accused in a murder case have been mistakenly released from Mymensingh Central Jail without any bail order from court, prison authorities confirmed yesterday.

The prosecution yesterday brought charges against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and six former senior police officers over the killing of nine youths in what it described as a “staged anti-militant operation” at Kalyanpur’s Jahaj Building in 2016.

Most media professionals yesterday recommended the establishment of a single media commission instead of having two separate bodies.

Reforms through the referendum, being conducted in an opaque manner, is a non-serious proposition, said noted economist and political scientist Prof Rehman Sobhan.

Justice Md Rezaul Haque, chamber judge of the Appellate Division of the SC, passed the “no order” on a petition filed by the Bangladesh Jubo Arthanitibid Forum challenging the HC verdict and seeking an order of status quo on the entire process of awarding the contract for NCT.

Five platoons of BGB members were deployed in Sherpur’s Jhenaigati and Sreebardi upazilas to maintain law and order after a Jamaat leader was killed in an election-related violence on Wednesday, said Shariful Islam, public relations officer of BGB headquarters.

Islami Andolan Bangladesh (IAB) will ensure the security of minorities following Islamic principles for running the state if voted to power, its Ameer Mufti Syed Muhammad Rezaul Karim said yesterday.

Fact-checking organisation Dismislab has debunked recent social media claims that Saiful Islam, joint convener of Sherpur’s Jhenaigati unit Jubo Dal, was killed following a clash between Jamaat and BNP activists in Sherpur.