The story of Sheikh Motiur Rahman

The High Court directs the government to include Mohalladars and Dofadars of the village police to 20th and 19th grades respectively of the national time scale and to pay their due salaries and allowances as per the time scale since June 2, 2011.

Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan has sought assistance from Japan for building an alternative bridge to replace century-old Hardinge Bridge in Pabna.

Ducsu Vice President Nurul Haque Nur and 14 other people are injured when a section of activists of Muktijuddho Moncho intercepts a protest programme at Dhaka University.

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

The Secretariat and its surrounding areas have been declared sound pollution free zone.

The Supreme Court has stayed a High Court order asking the government to allow Ahmed Shafat, the key accused of sensational Banani double rape case, to go abroad.

Forty-nine journalists were killed across the world in 2019, Reporters Without Borders says, the lowest death toll in 16 years.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Military Secretary Major General Mia Mohammad Zainul Abedin Bir Bikram passes away at a hospital in Singapore.

A Malaysian police officer on death row for the 2006 slaying of a Mongolian model has accused former prime minister Najib Razak of ordering him to kill the woman, according to media reports and the policeman’s lawyer.

The country’s poverty rate came down at 20.5 percent while the extreme poverty rate came down at 10.5 percent in June this year.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina alerts the countrymen to conspiracies of the anti-liberation forces to foil independence and turn Bangladesh into a failed state, asserting that the plots of the “Pakistani-lovers” will never be successful.

Chief Prosecutor Office of the International Crimes Tribunal holds a press briefing to protest the inclusion of Ghulam Arieff Tipoo on the Razakars’ list.

Shares on Dhaka Stock Exchange nosedived 78 points sending the key index to its three and half-year low of 4,419.82 points.

The government list of Razakars has sparked a huge protest in Barguna as the name of the president of Barguna Mukti Sangram Parishad, formed during the Liberation War in 1971, is among others on the list.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee takes a veiled dig at Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi who had said at an election rally in Jharkhand recently that those involved in arson and violence during the protest against Citizenship (Amended) Act can be "identified by their clothes".

The High Court questions the legality of few sections of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) rules that curtailed police’s authority to directly record corruption cases.

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

Minister for Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Imran Ahmed says that they are still in uncertainty about the opening of Malaysian labour market.

Freedom fighter Tapan Kumar Chakraborty expresses deep dissatisfaction over his name appearing in the Razakars' list. "I couldn't believe it when I heard about it over a phone call," Tapan said.