Container transport between Chattogram port and 18 private inland container depots (ICDs) resumed after nearly three and a half days as drivers and helpers of prime mover-trailers called off their work abstention.

Pro-BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami lawyers’ panel win president and general secretary posts in Dhaka Bar Association (DBA) election.

Six passengers of a private car including its driver are killed and one is injured as it hits a tree on the side of the road in Godagari upazila of Rajshahi.

A woman dies after falling off a rickshaw while she was being mugged in Dhaka’s Mugda area.

Seven people were killed in separate road crashes across the country yesterday, report our correspondents and UNB.

There is no plan to deploy army in the election to Chattogram City Corporation, said Election Commissioner Rafiqul Islam yesterday.

Girls aged five to 10 years in rural areas display better social behaviour compared to boys of the same age, revealed a study on the second day of an international conference held at East West University in the capital yesterday.

Foreign Minister AK Momen has urged the global community to put special focus on the South Asian region while allocating funds and taking up programmes for the region’s extreme vulnerability to climate change.

Income of BNP mayor candidate for Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) polls Shahadat Hossain is around five times higher than his main opponent, Awami League nominee Rezaul Karim Chowdhury.

Two students were expelled over their involvement in violent clashes at Barishal University (BU) that injured at least 10 students on Wednesday and Thursday.

A paralysed elderly woman was burnt to death on her bed after a fire swept through her house in Mohammadpur yesterday.

An Islamic cleric yesterday urged people to maintain harmony in the country and remain alert to prevent any kind of attacks on minority communities, amid the recent spate of violence in India.

The government is set to introduce a fully online application system for enrollment into higher secondary colleges and madrasas.

BNP yesterday alleged that the government has raised the power tariff to create a scope for the “ruling-party syndicate to plunder public money”.

Bricks and stones coming off, innumerable potholes to evade, engulfed in dust during dry weather and in mud during monsoon -- this is the sorry state of Sonadanga Bypass Road in Khulna city.

I was watching a flock of Cattle Egrets trailing behind cows grazing in the Haor’s swampy land. One of them – a juvenile lacking confidence – had caught a small fish in its beak.

Ekushey book fair has become a symbol of our national identity. The overwhelming presence of not just literary enthusiasts but also writers, poets and publishers at Bangla Academy and Suhrawardy Udyan speaks volumes about the love for books in our hearts.

Two policemen and a pedestrian are injured in an explosion near a traffic police box in Chattogram’s Sholoshahar Gate No-2 area.

Election Commissioner Rafiqul Islam says there are no plans to deploy army during the Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) election set to take place on March 29.

A Supreme Court lawyer has filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directive on the government to provide state honour and honorarium to the language heroes and language martyrs in order to protect and preserve the memories of the Language Movement.