UN Resident Coordinator Mia Seppo has called for quick investigation and justice in the incident of Buet student Abrar Fahad killing.

Saudi Arabia has sent back another batch of Bangladeshis amid a crackdown on illegal workers although a number of the returnees say they have legal documents.

Supply of fuel oil remains suspended in 15 districts of Khulna and greater Faridpur since following a 10-hour strike enforced by tank-lorry workers demanding withdrawal of a case filed against their two fellow workers.

A defiant White House declares war against the impeachment investigation of Donald Trump, blasting the process as partisan, illegitimate and unconstitutional and saying neither the president nor his administration will cooperate.

Human Rights Watch has demanded that Myanmar authorities should immediately release 30 Rohingya Muslims detained for attempting to travel from Rakhine State to the city of Yangon.

The students and teachers of Buet’s electrical and electronic engineering department bring out a silent procession on the campus demanding punishment of Abrar Fahad’s killers.

A college student is stabbed to death allegedly by some youths at Gulpukurpar in Mymensingh city.

Dhaka University Teacher Association (Duta) expresses grave concern over the ruthless killing of Buet student Abrar Fahad and demands exemplary punishment to the perpetrators within the shortest possible time.

British lawmakers ask the government to give guarantees that supplies of toilet paper don't dry up in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

Renowned theatre personality Mamunur Rashid demands immediate resignation of Buet vice chancellor shouldering the responsibility of Abrar Fahad killing.

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Tens of thousands of Hindus in colourful attires took to the streets beating drums and chanting mantras as five days of revelry and celebration ends with the immersion of Devi Durga in rivers and water bodies across the country.

Five people are arrested for gang-raping a 25-year-old ready-made garment worker in Sonargaon upazila of Naryanganj, police say.

Buet Vice-Chancellor Prof Saiful Islam has failed to calm the agitated students as he did not give any specific decision to meet their eight-point demand including expulsion of the killers of Abrar Fahad.

The Embassy of Italy will organize the 15th Italian Contemporary Art Day from October 11 to 12, for the first time, in Dhaka.

Canadian-American cosmologist James Peebles and Swiss scientists Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz win the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics for shedding light on the evolution of the universe and discovering planets orbiting distant suns.

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Detectives arrest three more students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) in connection with the murder of Abrar Fahad.

The expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat, who was arrested for illegal casino business in Dhaka, is admitted to a hospital in the capital after he “falls sick”.

The five-day Durga Puja, the greatest of all Hindu festivals, will come to an end with solemn immersion of the Goddess Durga in the capital and elsewhere in the country.