Pankaj Bhattacharya is one of the few left-wing ideological politicians in Bangladesh. He spent almost his entire life holding on to his ideologies, never making any compromises. This veteran politician is the president of Oikya NAP.

Two more victims, injured in an explosion at a scrapped goods shop in Mohammadpur last week, succumbed to their injuries at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery Today.

A woman is fighting for her life after she was given blood from the wrong group at a private clinic in Mathbaria upazila in Pirojpur, claimed the family.

An auto-rickshaw driver was beaten up by other drivers over taking passengers on his rickshaw at Dashuria intersection in Pabna’s Ishwardi upazila today.

The politics in the US and the coverage surrounding it makes for excellent entertainment, at least from an outsider’s point of view.

The High Court issued a Rule Nisi today, calling upon the government to show cause as to why laws that allow for marital rape of women and girls aged above 13 should not be declared void and discriminatory.

President Donald Trump said he felt good about his chances for victory as US election day opened Tuesday, predicting that he would register big wins in key states such as Florida and Arizona.

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) today approved four development projects, including a Tk 199 crore one to set up a dried fish-processing industry in Cox’s Bazar to produce quality dried fish and increase its production, minimising fish wastage.

The expert committee formed by UGC -- to check whether the software developed for taking the admission tests of public universities -- today said that it will not be wise to conduct the admission tests online, using the software.

Five passengers of an ambulance were killed and another injured in a head-on collision with a truck on the Kushtia-Khulna highway in Sadar upazila of Kushtia this afternoon.

The scourge of a global pandemic produced an election season like no other in the US, persuading record numbers of Americans to cast their ballots early, forcing states to make changes to long-established election procedures and leading to hundreds of lawsuits over how votes will be cast and which ballots will be counted.

Polling stations opened in New York, New Jersey and Virginia early Tuesday, marking the start of US Election Day as President Donald Trump seeks to beat forecasts and defeat challenger Joe Biden.

The head of Lalmonirhat district administration’s three-member probe committee today said they too did not find any instance of Abu Yunus Md Shahidunnabi Jewel, who was beaten to death by a mob, demeaning the Holy Quran.

The director of the Institute of Public Health (IPH) Dr Abdur Rahim has been made officer on special duty (OSD) along with the director of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital on different allegations.

Hundreds of men and women marched, clad in T-shirts supporting US President Donald Trump or pink fabric dresses bearing the image of Jesus, as they waved American flags, Republican presidential campaign signs, and even a few Nigerian flags.

In the last 24-hours, seventeen people have died from Covid-19 in the country and 1,659 new infections were recorded in the meantime, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Iran’s supreme leader mocked America’s presidential election in a televised address, quoting President Donald Trump’s own baseless claims about voter fraud to criticise the vote as Tehran marked the 1979 US Embassy hostage crisis.

Bangladesh is hopeful of continuing discussion with the United States on strengthening economic ties as election results are unlikely to have any impact on it.

A Grameen Bank official was burnt to death in a fire caused by a gas leak at a house in Rangamati last night.

Two tiny New Hampshire communities that vote for president just after the stroke of midnight on Election Day have cast their ballots, with one of them marking 60 years since the tradition began.