Benvenuto Cellini from the Italian Renaissance was an artist and a sculptor, but he is remembered for his autobiography.

Today is the 20th death anniversary of Rasel Bhuiyan, an industrialist and founder of Russel Park, says a press release.

Ustad Sunil Kumar Dhar, one of the most prominent classical music maestros of the country died of a heart attack at a city hospital Thursday. He was 87.

Two people were killed and two others injured in separate road accidents in Mymensingh yesterday morning. The accidents took place in Bhaluka and Muktagachha upazilas.

A schoolgirl was injured by a stray bullet in Mistripara area of Khulna yesterday.

Police recovered bodies of a couple from a house in Dhaka’s Nakhalpara area yesterday morning.

If one can even remember a time before the Covid-19 pandemic, one of the most familiar scenes on the streets of Dhaka were people gathered around tea stalls – snacking, smoking and chatting with friends, colleagues or even total strangers. And almost inevitably around every such gathering would be a friendly canine face or two, waiting eagerly for a kind soul to throw a piece of cookie or cake.

In Arshad Hasan’s 100 square feet apartment at Mirpur section-11’s Bihari camp, there’s barely enough room for his family of four.

Barishal has been experiencing unprecedented waterlogging for over a week due to tidal surge from the river Kirtankhola, causing immense suffering to city-dwellers.

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) said they arrested 15 Nigerians from Dhaka’s Pallabi area for their alleged involvement in embezzling money from people using a fake Facebook ID.

A Cox's Bazar court today placed former officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das and two other accused, in a case filed over killing of Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan, on a fresh three-day remand.

The High Court yesterday declared the election of Pubali Bank Limited’s board of directors -- held on July 30 during its 37th annual general meeting (AGM) -- illegal.

Officials of Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) claim to have arrested a top member of Neo-JMB from Dhaka’s East-Bashabo area under Sabujbagh Police Station.

Outgoing Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Riva Ganguly Das yesterday proposed restoration of air connectivity with Bangladesh.

The pandemic has critically impacted indigenous people living in plains, and pushed around 62 percent of them below extreme poverty line, said Indigenous People’s Development Services (IPDS) at a webinar yesterday.

For at least 463 million children whose schools closed due to Covid-19, “there was no such thing as remote learning,” the head of the UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) said yesterday.

Youth’s involvement in higher and important policymaking is still unsatisfactory, although they share a large part of the country’s population, speakers said during an online discussion yesterday.

The authorities of General Post Office in Chattogram yesterday handed over two of its staff to police on the charge of embezzling clients’ money of Tk 45 lakh.

Detectives claimed to have arrested a medical technologist of Kushtia’s Mirpur Upazila Health Complex for providing fake coronavirus certificates.

Today is the eighth death anniversary of Dr Akhlakul Hossain Ahmed, a Liberation War organiser and member of the Bangladesh Constituent Assembly of 1972, said a press release. He was also a member of the erstwhile East Pakistan Provincial Assembly.