Campaign for the Dhaka University Central Students' Union (Ducsu) and hall union polls officially began yesterday as the university authorities published the final list of candidates.

The money spent on an expensive project like metro rail must be justified by ensuring it provides quality and optimum service to the public, said the country director of Asian Development Bank (ADB).

Farmers in the northeastern backswamps are on the brink of facing another flash flood as the construction and maintenance works of “around 50 percent” Haor protection embankments have not been completed within the given timeline.

Opponents and supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to the streets Saturday evening after the country's attorney general said he intended to file graft charges against him.

A suspected drug dealer was killed yesterday allegedly in a “gunfight” with police in Kalibari area of Mymensingh city, police said. The dead, Lalu Mia, 45, was a resident of city's Krishtapur Baganbari area.

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he held talks Saturday with his Saudi counterpart in Riyadh that focused on human rights issues, including journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder and the jailing of women activists in the kingdom.

Bangladesh stood ninth among its Asian neighbours in an international ranking of generous countries.

The law enforcers yesterday held four men with 700 gold bars in two separate drives in Chattogram's Sadar and Mirsharai upazilas.

SpaceX's new Dragon capsule successfully docked on the International Space Station (ISS) yesterday, Nasa and SpaceX confirmed during a live broadcast of the mission.

The Canadian government, as expected, on Friday approved extradition proceedings against the chief financial officer of Huawei

Five years ago, their loved ones boarded a plane and vanished.

Sabrin Farooqui is probably the first female of Bangladeshi origin to run for a parliamentary seat in Australia in the upcoming election due on March 23.

Rights groups yesterday denounced Saudi Arabia over its decision to put jailed women activists on trial after holding them for nearly a year without charge.

The month-long 2019 Amar Ekushey Boi Mela ended in the capital yesterday having seen a record number of new books and a huge public gathering.

A 70-year-old man was beaten to death allegedly by a youngster for protesting against loud music during a picnic in Jhalakathi's Nalchity upazila early yesterday.

It appears that the more the law enforcers are trying to keep a tight rein on yaba trafficking, the more the purveyors are adopting novel tricks to worm their way into different parts of the country.

He told police that he was just a petty thief two years ago.

The United States and North Korea yesterday promised further negotiations despite a spectacular failure to strike a nuclear deal at their Hanoi summit.

Pabitra Roy, who secured GPA-5 in PEC and JSC exams, spends six months of a year working at a brick kiln to pay for his studies as well as support his family.

Two alleged drug peddlers and three suspected robbers were killed in three separate “gunfights” with members of Border Guard Bangladesh and police in Cox's Bazar and Munshiganj yesterday.