Bangladesh Awami Olama League claims Pahela Baishakh celebration is ‘Haram’. So then, is our government upholding a ‘Haram’ culture as it is a public holiday? Are the 160 million Bangalis observing a Haram festival? How could one organisation openly declare this and walk away without any protest from any quarters or action from the government?

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurates the newly-constructed central jail in Keraniganj, on the outskirts of Dhaka.

Three days into the killing of secular online activist Nazim Uddin Samad, investigators have yet to find out clue to the gruesome murder.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) receives statements from colleagues of slain Sohagi Jahan Tonu’s father in connection with the much-talked-about murder.

Two persons are crushed under the wheels of a train in Banani of Dhaka. The deceased – 45 and 50 years – died on the spot when they were crushed near Senamalacha in Banani by a Chittagong bound train from Kamalapur around 8:15am, police said.

CID interrogates five people over the killing of Comilla Victoria College student Sohagi Jahan Tonu.

Imran H Sarker, spokesperson of a faction of Ganajagaran Mancha, says that Jagannath University student Nazimuddin Samad was killed in a bid to shift people’s attention from Tonu murder.

The licences of the illegal commercial entities in residential areas will be cancelled, the LGRD minister says

The Customs Intelligence seizes 20 gold bars weighing two kilogrammes from inside a toilet of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka this morning.

Since when did private tuition become a crime? When did private tuition become synonymous to stealing, pick-pocketing or mugging that the ministry would think of putting a private tutor behind bars?

Jagannath University students threaten to go for an all-out strike on the campus on Sunday demanding arrest of their fellow Nazim’s killers.

Four persons of a family suffer burn injuries as miscreants hurl acid on them at Rupnagar in Dhaka’s Mirpur area.

Nobody can enter Ramna Park and Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka after 4:00pm on Pahela Baishakh, DMP Additional Commissioner Monirul Islam announces.

Around 80 lakh people in Bangladesh are suffering from diabetes, State Minister for Health Zahid Malik says.

Recalling the horrible days of BNP-Jamaat's non-stop blockade and hartal in 2015, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says those who killed people in arson attacks how they could expect public support as politics is not for killing people.

A fire that brakes out at a three-storey tin-shed house at Tejgaon Industrial area of Dhaka is doused after an hour efforts of the firefighters.

Fire breaks out at a residential building at Siddique Bazar in the old part of Dhaka.

Sommilito Sangskritik Jote demands a fair investigation into the murder of Sohagi Jahan Tonu and punishment of those involved with the killing.

Mild tremors were felt in Dhaka and other parts of Bangladesh this afternoon – as result of a 5.0 magnitude earthquake in India’s Lakhipur.

Dhaka’s development authority is on an eviction drive in capital’s biggest kitchen market Karwan Bazar. Businessmen have grouped in protest against the drive.