Thousands of Santal and Bangalee students of eight high schools Gobindaganj upazila of Gaibandha have taken oath to build a humanitarian Bangladesh with communal harmony.

Bangladesh slips four notches down in the World Press Freedom Index-2019 published by Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF).

President Abdul Hamid urges the authorities concerned to highlight Bangladesh's heritage along with tourist spots in a smarter way to attract foreign visitors.

A Dhaka court asks Shahbagh Police Station to submit by May 22 the probe report of the case filed over the death of Titumir College student Rajib Hossain in April last year.

A wild elephant has been found dead in Bandarban after it drowned in a lake, a forest official says.

The High Court (HC) refuses to pass any order on a writ petition seeking its directive upon Islamic Foundation to set the night of April 20 for observing Shab-e-Barat.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) demands judicial inquiry into the role of police over the much-talked-about Feni madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi murder.

Consular Corps in Bangladesh (CCB) hosts a reception to Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Dhaka.

Dear readers, here are the news headlines so far on Thursday, April 18, 2019.

Security officials detain a former upazila chairman for entering the domestic terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka with a pistol and bullets without any prior declaration.

A Chapainawabganj court sentences five people to death for killing a young woman after rape in 2015. Convicts Nayan Karmokar Rabidas, 28, Proshanto Rabidas, 22, Nitai Chandra Rabidas, 25, Subhash Das, 42, and Proshanto Rabidas, 24, were also fined Tk 1 lakh each.

At least five people including two of a family are killed in separate road accidents in Dinajpur and Feni.

The High Court issues an injunction on the recruitment to the post of a lecturer at the Zoology department of Chittagong University (CU).

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stresses the need for conducting massive awareness campaign among people about their dos and don'ts during any calamity alongside making the disaster preparedness time-befitting one.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir claims that there is no rule of law in the country because of the “absence of accountability”.

Office holders are vacating from the BGMEA Complex on Hatirjheel on a second chance today, on the cusp of the building’s demolition.

Md Shamim, an accused in madrasa student Nusrat murder case, has been placed on a five-day remand by a Feni court.

Some 250 Bangladeshi workers stranded between fighting between Libyan government and its national army have been moved to a safe zone.

Search engine Google and tech giant Apple have removed video-sharing media TikTok from their app stores in India following a court ban.

The government has no information about BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s release on parole, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said today.