A section of teachers of Jahangirnagar University today brought out a silent procession against the allegations of corruption and irregularities brought against the vice-chancellor and her family members.

British Airways pilots begin a 48-hour strike, grounding most of the airline's flights and disrupting thousands of travellers' plans in unprecedented industrial action over a pay dispute.

Masud Bin Momen, the current Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations, is likely to become the next Foreign Secretary.

An accused in a drug case escaped from police custody in Bogura. Md Saiful Islam alias Sagar, 28, hailing from Sherpur upazila in the district, managed to flee the scene from Bogura Chief Judicial Magistrate courtyard.

Thousands of students form human chains outside schools across Hong Kong to show solidarity after violent weekend clashes to push for democratic reforms in the semiautonomous Chinese territory.

The Forest Department has planned to monitor the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest and a Unesco world heritage site, with drones to check crimes like poaching of tigers and deer.

A powerful typhoon that battered Tokyo overnight with ferocious winds killed one person, police says, as halted trains caused commuter chaos and more than 100 flights are cancelled.

Three suspected robbers are killed in an alleged gunfight with detectives in Burichang upazila of Cumilla.

No important documents were harmed in the fire that broke out at the Election Commission Building in Dhaka’s Agargaon area early today.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina accuses Khaleda Zia of paving the way for HM Ershad to take over power in 1982 and enjoying various facilities from the former military ruler.

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader hands over a letter to speaker of the parliament requesting her to appoint Raushan Ershad as leader of the opposition in the House.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on September 8, 2019

A Jashore court places three accused on a three-day remand each in a case filed over raping a woman in Jashore on September 3.

Biswajit Chanda, a teacher of Law & Land Administration department at Rajshahi University, has been recognised as the best professor for his outstanding performance in Land Administration Studies.

Science and Technology Affairs Minister Yeafesh Osman says that the installation cost of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) is higher than that of India as Bangladesh is new to implement such a power plant.

The Ministry of Home Affairs opposes a proposal to include Battalion Ansar in anti-drug drives saying that the force is not a “law enforcement agency”.

The government is going to amend the Companies Act, 1994 incorporating a provision for establishing company by a single person and a new section titled as “One Person Company” will be included in the amended law.

Barrister Mainul Hosein, former adviser to a caretaker government, is released from jail in a case filed by journalist Masuda Bhatti for defaming her in October last year.

BNP will form human chain programmes in Dhaka on September 11 and across the country on September 12 to press home its demand for immediate release of its imprisoned Chairperson Khaleda Zia.

The three-day long Asia Regional Youth Festival 2019 will begin on September 11 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in a bid to empower young people in the region to hold our governments accountable to international human rights commitments.