A writ petition has been filed at the High Court seeking judicial inquiry into allegations of purchasing irregularities for the housing project of Rooppur nuclear power plant.

BNP Standing Committee Member Abdul Moeen Khan raises a question as to why Dhaka University failed to find a place among the top-ranking universities in Asia.

Bangladesh has curtailed the power of two of its ministers, five months into the third straight government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Scientists say breathing the heavily polluted air in Mexico City these days is like smoking somewhere between a quarter- and a half-pack of cigarettes a day.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan says tight security measures will be taken across the country to ensure the peaceful celebrations of Eid-ul-Fitr.

Hello readers! How are you doing today? Here are the headlines so far on May 19, 2019

China has developed an app that allows conservationists to identify individual pandas using facial recognition technology, state-run Xinhua news agency reports.

A young man is killed after a private car ran him over in Dhaka’s Mirpur area.

The High Court (HC) declares “illegal” the gazette notifications and circular determining the minimum age of the freedom fighters.

We are sorry to inform you that one of our copy editors, while editing a UNB report, made a big factual error in the story, headlined “Don’t allow them to come back to power” and published on the front page of our May 18 issue.

Bangladesh expresses deep concern over the secret drone attacks on the oil pumping stations in Saudi Arabian Eastern Province and terms the news of attacks on the Saudi Arabian and Emirati oil tankers in the UAE territory as disconcerting.

A new labour rights combine demands that the government clears all arrears of the state-run jute mill workers by 20th Ramadan (May 26).

A man, who suffered 97 per cent burn injuries in a fire caused by a “TV explosion” at a house in Dhaka’s Agargaon area on May 16, died at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital today.

The Supreme Court says that the Accord, a European agency for factory inspection and remediation, can continue its activities for 281 days from May 8, when a memorandum of understanding was signed between Accord and Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) in this regard.

The state-run Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) will start sale of advance Eid tickets from tomorrow at 18 bus depots across the country.

A faction of Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders, who were deprived of posts in the new central committee of the pro-Awami League student body, begin an indefinite sit-in programme on Dhaka University campus protesting a “fresh assault” on them.

Boeing acknowledged that it had to correct flaws in its 737 MAX flight simulator software used to train pilots, after two deadly crashes involving the aircraft that killed 346 people.

Millions of voters stand in queue in front of polling stations to exercise their franchise in the seventh and final phase of Indian parliamentary elections.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi emerges from a cave in Kedarnath after spending a night of meditation in the temple town in Uttarakhand.

Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison basks in the glow of a "miracle" election victory that sparked praise from the US president, soul searching on the left and speculation about what policies he will pursue.