In an effort to raise awareness among youth, North South University Social Services Club (NSUSSC) comes up with an initiative named ‘ONUSHONGO’ to spend some quality time with the elderly but lonely people.

A probe body formed by the Police Headquarters begins its work to assess alleged negligence from the part of police officials of Feni in connection with the arson attack on madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi that led to her death.

A Supreme Court lawyer serves a legal notice to the authorities concerned of Mastermind English Medium School at Dhanmondi to withdraw in three days their notice asking its O-Level students to clear all outstanding dues, tuition and lab fees till June by April 18, claiming that charging this extra fee is illegal and arbitrary.

A woman is “strangled to death” and then set on fire allegedly by her husband in Mugda area of Dhaka.

A woman files a case against a local businessman for “raping” her for four years reportedly after silencing her with various threats in Ghior upazila of Manikganj.

Police claim to have arrested two active members of militant outfit Neo JMB from Gabtoli Bus Terminal area in Dhaka.

Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukdar says those who do not believe in democracy want to make an election questionable and taint the festivity of voting.

Iran's lawmakers overwhelmingly approved a bill labeling US forces in the Middle East as terrorist, a day after the US terrorism designation for Iran's Revolutionary Guard formally took effect, state TV reports.

Malaysia begins a public inquiry into the discovery of mass graves and suspected human trafficking camps in the jungles near its border with Thailand, which prompted a regional crisis in 2015, and accusations over obstruction of justice.

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud urges the country’s cable operators to follow the conditions of the license as well the existing law of the country for broadcasting foreign and local television channels.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to leave Dhaka on Sunday on a three-day official visit to Brunei Darussalam at the invitation of kingdom’s Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah.

President Emmanuel Macron pledges that France would rebuild the fire-devastated Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, saying he hopes the work would be done in five years and the French people would pull together to repair their national symbol.

Hello readers! How are you doing today? Here are the headlines so far on April 17, 2019

“Blessée, mais vivante,” tweets Henrik Enderlein, the director of the Jacques Delors Institute, alongside pictures of the shattered shell of Notre-Dame de Paris, the gothic masterpiece that sits at the heart of Paris. “Wounded, but alive.”

A court sentences two members of banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) to life imprisonment in an explosion case.

A legal notice has been served on BGMEA President Siddiqur Rahman requesting him to withdraw a petition filed with the Supreme Court seeking a one-year time for demolishing its building illegally constructed in the middle of Hatirjheel canal.

Sixty-two per cent of Dhaka’s connection seekers fall prey to corruption in Wasa, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) says.

The 'untouchable' sweeper community in Dhaka's Hajaribagh is facing uncertainty with fear of eviction hanging over their head. Hundreds of families have already been evicted in city corporation's drive. Others still remaining in buildings yet to be brought down are living in fear.

The High Court has sought Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) probe report on Jaha Alam who wrongly suffered imprisonment for three years.

A Feni court places an Alim examinee, Kamrun Nahar Moni, on a five-day remand today, hours after she was arrested in connection with Nusrat murder case.