Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday feared that vested quarters might exploit the frustrated Rohingya youths to materialise their ill motive.

A total of 614 members of several outlaw gangs will surrender to police tomorrow in Pabna, said home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday.

Workers of state-owned jute mills from across the country yesterday announced fresh demonstrations, including road blocks next week, to press home their nine-point demand.

At least eight people, including a schoolboy, were killed and 25 others injured in road accidents in four districts since Friday evening.

A Russian engineer working at the Rooppur Nuclear Power project in Pabna's Ishwardi died allegedly after drinking locally made liquor last night while two other Russian engineers were hospitalised.

A third-grader girl was allegedly raped by a CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver in Noakhali's Senbagh upazila yesterday.

The daylong negotiations between the representatives of agitating jute mill workers and government officials ended without any result yesterday.

Unknown assailants shot a member of the Village Defence Party (VDP) dead in Ashuganj upazila yesterday morning.

They achieved the highest grades in A- and O-levels in the country, a success that makes a great platform to launch their future careers onto the global stage. While the bright minds are for sure to pursue their goals, they have not forgotten their roots, cultures, and responsibilities towards the country.

Bangladesh Chhatra League men allegedly drilled holes in the legs of a 28-year-old man on Thursday night, after failing to extort money from his father.

Farmers were harvesting boro paddy days before those could ripen in Hakaluki Haor in Moulvibazar after rain accompanied by hailstorm damaged crops on vast tracts in the last few days.

The world, it seems, is soon to see the first picture of a black hole.

A nine-year-old girl died in her classroom in Barguna's Taltali upazila yesterday as chunks of ceiling plaster fell on her.

Three Rohingya men, suspected to be robbers, were killed in a “gunfight” with police near Nayapara Refugee Camp in Teknaf, Cox's Bazar yesterday.

Holy Shab-e-Barat, the night of fortune and forgiveness, will be observed in the country on April 21 as the Shaban moon was not sighted in Bangladesh sky yesterday.

Over 600 theatre personalities of India, including Naseeruddin Shah, Girish Karnad, Usha Ganguli and Amol Palekar, have signed a letter urging the people to "vote BJP and its allies" out of power, alleging that the idea of India and its constitution are “under threat.”

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader, who is now in Singapore for treatment, was released from Mount Elizabeth Hospital yesterday.

Khulna Metropolitan Police has filed a case against 250 unnamed people over an attack on the law enforcers during a 72-hour strike of nine state-owned jute mills' workers in Khulna and Jashore.

Australian Brenton Tarrant yesterday appeared in a New Zealand court where the suspected white supremacist was charged with an

Paleontologists have found a well-preserved fossil of a four-legged amphibian ancestor of whales, a discovery that sheds new light on the mammals' transition from land to the ocean.