Gonotantrik Bam Morcha yesterday announced holding a programme on November 5 to express solidarity with others demanding cancellation of the coal-based Rampal power plant project to preserve the Sundarbans, situated some 14 kilometres away.

The Gono Bishwabidyalay authorities yesterday suspended BBA first year student Bikrom Moni Das in an allegation of stabbing a girl to death at her school gate at Boardghar in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur on October 13.

The condition of BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka, who is being treated in the US for cancer in the rib, has been deteriorating since the last couple of months.

Agitating medical college admission seekers will hold a solidarity rally at the capital's Shahbagh at 4:00pm tomorrow, renewing the demand for rerun of the entrance test.

The trial run of biometric SIM registration system will be inaugurated today.

A former havilder of now defunct BDR, who was convicted of being involved in the massacre of its officers and their

Primary school teachers yesterday called for rallies at district- and division-level from November 1 to December 15,

Forty-five journalists, creative writers, television and radio programme producers were honoured with 11th Meena

New research about treating Post Kala Azar Dermal Leishmaniasis (PKDL), done by international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Mymensingh uncovered an improved treatment regimen.

High Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA) officials and representatives of agitators demanding fresh medical and dental college admission tests yesterday failed to reach consensus on forming a body to probe allegations that the September 18 tests' question papers were leaked.

The four employees of an NGO, arrested in a case filed under the Human Trafficking Act over a month ago, were granted bail by a Dhaka court yesterday as a police probe found no proof of their involvement.

Five Bangladeshi migrant workers soon after returning from war-torn Iraq yesterday submitted a written complaint to National Human Rights Commission against a Bangladeshi recruiting agency, demanding compensations.

Several hundred workers of a readymade garment factory blocked the Dhaka-Aricha highway at Radio colony of Dogormora in Savar yesterday, demanding their arrears.

Muggers shot a jewellery shop employee and snatched away Tk 25 lakh from him on a busy road in Old Dhaka yesterday.

Popular film star Riaz Uddin Ahamed Siddique, known as Riaz, was admitted to Apollo Hospitals Dhaka last night following cardiac arrest.

The students seeking retake of the MBBS and BDS admission tests hold a meeting with the officials of the health department.

The country's fish production has almost doubled in just over a decade as fish farming becomes even more popular. According to data from the Department of Fisheries, farmed fish production was 2 million tonnes in 2013-14 fiscal year. This was only 0.8 million tonnes in 2001-02.

Immense sufferings of Dhaka city passengers ends after the protesting transport workers withdraw their suspension of bus operation.

BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir left Dhaka for Singapore again yesterday morning for

Some 15 Gonotantrik Bam Morcha leaders and activists were injured yesterday noon after police for the second time in two days