Villagers allege hired men opened fire during confrontation over sand extraction

First namaz-e-janaza at Jatiya Press Club at 2:30pm, second at Dhaka Reporters Unity at 3pm today

Residents and businesspeople blocked a nearby road and laid siege to the police station

BNP leader receiving treatment at CCU of a hospital in Dhaka

The prime minister begins day at Secretariat with meetings on policy priorities and election pledges

The accident occurred around 9:30am in the Mir Hazaribagh Ghuntighar area

Suspect remains absconding

Goods worth Tk 9.9 lakh in duties recovered, passenger released after warning

Clad in black and white and carrying flowers, people thronged the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country to honour the language martyrs on the occasion of International Mother Language Day and Martyrs’ Day yesterday.

The Enhanced Monitoring Mechanism (EMM), a body of the UN Committee for Development Policy (UN CDP), will begin an evaluation process following Bangladesh’s request to defer its graduation from the group of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to developing nation status.

On  Friday mornings, the otherwise quiet veranda of a house in Haktiarkhola village under Kamalganj upazila in Moulvibazar turns into a classroom.

From midnight yesterday, people from all walks of life thronged Shaheed Minars across the country to pay homage to the martyrs of the 1952 Language Movement, observing Martyrs’ Day and International Mother Language Day.

On the occasion of International Mother Language Day and Language Martyrs’ Day, no patriotic songs were played on the central Shaheed Minar premises in Lalmonirhat district yesterday, drawing flak from local eminent citizens and cultural activists.

A competition was held yesterday on making temporary Shaheed Minars on the occasion of the Martyrs’ Day and the International Mother Language, featuring children from local marginal families in Rasulpur shoal within Kirtankhola river in Barishal.

Rajshahi city residents have finally received a permanent Shaheed Minar to pay tribute to the heroes of the 1952 Language Movement.

An upazila-level Sramik Dal leader was shot and injured by armed miscreants in Raozan upazila of Chattogram on Friday night.

The government plans to introduce monthly honorariums and festival allowances for khatibs, imams, muezzins and religious leaders of other faiths in some areas before the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr in line with the ruling party’s election pledges.

Information Minister Zahir Uddin Swapan yesterday alleged that certain quarters are secretly patronising mob activities.

Hundreds of US troops have been pulled out of the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, The New York Times reported Friday, as US President Donald Trump said he was considering limited military strikes on Iran.

A police constable was stabbed by miscreants during a search at a checkpoint in Dhaka’s Jatrabari area yesterday.