On this day in 1971, valiant freedom fighters hoisted the flag of independent Bangladesh in Panchagarh town by

Transport workers blocked Chapainawabganj-Rajshahi highway in the town for about five hours from 10:30am

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat says her country wants to work to put an end to the ongoing repression on Rohingya people in Myanmar.

The local administration imposes section 144 in the municipality area of Mymensingh’s Phulbaria upazila where two people including a college teacher were killed during a police action yesterday.

A female worker, who sustained burns in a factory fire in Ashulia on November 22, died undergoing treatment at a hospital in Dhaka raising the death toll of the incident to three.

Most of the roads in the district have been in awful condition for long, causing immense suffering to the users.

The High Court grants anticipatory bail to 33 people including 23 Santals of Gaibandha’s Gobindaganj for eight weeks in a case filed on charge of attacking police on November 6.

Protesting the atrocities on the Rohingyas in Myanmar, leaders of Bangladesh Buddhist Federation condemn the ongoing repression.

An accused in a narcotics case fled from police custody in Belkuchi upazila of Sirajganj on Friday.

State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak said it seems there is now no world war but there is cyber war.

Child marriage is on the rise in Shajahanpur upazila of the district despite the local administration's efforts to prevent

Char people in the district reiterated their demand to spare their homesteads and farmlands from acquisition.

Sand brought by water flowing in from India has covered about 3,500 acres of fertile land, resulting in damage to

Bangladesh says other countries neighbouring Myanmar should open up more to Rohingya refugees as it alone cannot cope with the problem.

Transport workers call a strike in Chittagong division on November 29 to press their nine-point demand including setting up terminal for all modes of the motorised vehicle at a convenient place.

National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports announces to observe a half-day hartal in Dhaka city on January 26 protesting Rampal power plant near the Sundarbans.

Tomorrow is the 91st birth anniversary of Munier Chowdhury, educationalist, playwright, literary critic and political dissident, who was picked up on December 14, 1971 by local collaborators and later tortured and killed by the Pakistan Army. Asif Munier, his youngest son gives a glimpse of the life of the martyred intellectual.

The government must take effective steps to save the country’s rivers from grabbing and polluting for the sake of the environment and people’s livelihood, say speakers at a national convention on saving the rivers.

Some of the Rohingya people from Myanmar have intruded into Bangladesh territory through the borders along the Naf river in last seven days, Border Guard Bangladesh Director General Maj Gen Abul Hossain says.

The forest department with the help of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-7) in separate drives rescued 1451 wild birds from different areas of Feni Sadar upazila early yesterday.