Eminent journalist and columnist M Anwarul Haq passed away early yesterday. He was 63.

European Union leaders yesterday warned Britain it had a final opportunity to leave the bloc in an orderly fashion after giving Prime Minister Theresa May two weeks' reprieve until April 12 before Britain could tumble out without a deal.

Three shops were gutted in a fire at the 22-storey building of Biswas Builders in the capital's New Market area last night.

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad yesterday relieved his brother GM Quader from the post of Co-chairman, saying that he has failed to discharge his duties and rather created divisions within the party.

A two-member team of National Human Rights Commission yesterday visited Rangamati's Baghaichhari upazila where seven people, including two polling officials and four Ansar men, were killed in a shooting during the second phase of upazila polls five days ago.

Police yesterday arrested a leader of the Swechchhasebak League on charges of holding a garment worker captive for four days and raping her along with three of his accomplices in Lalmonirhat.

A college girl was arrested from her Gopibagh house in the city last night after she allegedly killed a cat four days ago and video footage of the incident went viral on social media.

President Donald Trump yesterday announced the United States should acknowledge Israeli sovereignty over the hotly contested Golan Heights territory, in a major pre-election gift to his ally Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

An alleged drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with police at Dhonpur in Cumilla's Sadar upazila yesterday.

The investigation committee formed over the killing of seven people in Rangamati's Baghaichhari upazila visited the spot yesterday.

The INGO Forum Bangladesh said it would welcome any investigation into the allegations that NGOs and aid agencies spent only a quarter of the funds they received for the Rohingya crisis.

Eight people, including a woman and her daughter, were killed and six others injured in road accidents in six districts yesterday.

The High Court has granted a one year bail to former Awami League leader Ruhul Amin who allegedly ordered the rape of a woman in Subarnachar on December 30.

During the first week of this March there was unexpected weather in the country. Forest was no exception. When I tried to hit the

Senators called Wednesday for the United States to slap sanctions on Myanmar's army chief, saying more needed to be done to bring accountability over the campaign against the Rohingya.

Expressing frustration over the poor voters' presence in many places during the upazila polls, Juktafront Chairman Prof AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury yesterday warned that the voters' apathy might put democracy in grave danger.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the authorities concerned to take development projects that do not adversely affect people.

Police last night filed a case against 40 to 50 unidentified assailants with Rangamati's Baghaichhari Police Station in connection with Monday's killings.

Bangladesh has slipped 10 notches in the Happiness Index but it is still ahead of India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.

The government is supposed to increase forest land to 20 percent of the country's total landmass by 2030, but the reality is, it is losing land every year to different government agencies who demand land for their establishments and development projects.