US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller along with his wife visits the month-long Amar Ekushey Grantha Mela, Bangladesh's largest book fair.

A mobile court seals off four coaching centres in Keraniganj as owners of those have been running the business for defying the government’s ban on keeping the centres open during SSC exams.

Based on the 1952 Language Movement, actor turned director Tauquir Ahmed's latest venture ‘Fagun Haway’ brings forth a promising story on the historic incident.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members claim to have detained a man involved in fake question paper leak in Dhaka.

Jeff Bezos, chief executive of Amazon.com Inc, accuses the owner of the National Enquirer of trying to blackmail him with the threat of publishing “intimate photos” he allegedly sent to his girlfriend.

About 700 residents are evacuated from a New Zealand town as a forest fire threatens the area.

Standing atop an elephant watch-tower on the outskirts of the sprawling Rohingya refugee settlement in Cox's Bazar, Nur Islam takes great pride in keeping his people safe.

BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi yesterday invited Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader to join BNP as its adviser, since he has long been giving the party various suggestions.

UNHCR special envoy and Hollywood superstar Angelina Jolie has said the world must not turn away from the nearly 1 million Rohingyas who have fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh.

Students of Jahangirnagar University (JU) yesterday brought out a procession at campus demanding immediate election of JU central students’ union (Jucsu). During the march, they sang patriotic songs with instruments.

Four more former ministers, who were dropped from Sheikh Hasina's new cabinet, have been made chiefs of the same number of parliamentary standing committees last night.

Enamul Haque had just completed his training and was supposed to join Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Wednesday. But a fatal road accident only a day before cut his life short at 27.

The High Court yesterday upheld the government policy framed in 2012 to stop “coaching business” by the teachers of government and private educational institutions.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the armed forces to play the due role in advancing the nation as well as maintaining democratic and constitutional stability in the country.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) during a countrywide enforcement drive yesterday caught four brokers red-handed atdifferent regional passportsoffices, said an official press release.

The national Vitamin 'A' plus campaign will be observed across the country on tomorrow, aiming to feed Vitamin A plus capsules to all children aged between six and 59 months.

The High Court yesterday issued a rule asking the government to explain in a week why Badal Faraji should not be produced before the court to satisfy that he was not detained illegally.

A Dhaka court yesterday jailed an official of Polychem Laboratories Limited for a year for producing toxic paracetamol syrup and acquitted its three other employees following a prolonged legal battle that went on for 26 years.

The National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre (NTMC) with the help of Facebook authority has recently closed around 1332 fake IDs.

Director General of Rapid Action Battalion Benazir Ahmed is elected president of Bangladesh Police Service Association while deputy Commissioner of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit Proloy Kumar Joarder was reelected general secretary of the association.