Three people, including a woman and her daughter, are killed as a bus rammed into a rickshaw in Ashulia of Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka.

The month of February is marked with heroic tales of patriots laying down lives for the mother tongue. This month of language inevitably causes one to reflect on the martyrs of Language Movement in 1952, their valour, selflessness and love for motherland.

Dilapidated roads in Khulna are causing immense sufferings to city dwellers, who say 60 percent of roads are in poor condition due to lack of reconstruction and repair after development projects.

Nurul Islam, local newspaper agent of Jahangirnagar University, passed away of old age at his residence on Thursday. He was 78.

Wazi Uddin Khan, veteran politician and prominent freedom fighter, was laid to rest with state honours yesterday. People of all walks of life, including members of different political parties, joined his funeral in Pabna.

National Food Safety Day will be observed today across the country, with a call to prevent food adulteration and ensure safe food for all.

Garment workers yesterday blockaded Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Bagherbazar point of Gazipur for around half an hour following a rumour that four of their co-workers died in a road accident.

Three law enforcers were suspended after a female yaba peddler fled from police custody at Patiya Police Station under Chattogram district early yesterday.

Mithun Mahfuz, senior reporter of Daily Amader Somoy, passed away at a hospital in the capital yesterday. He was 52.

Today is the 14th death anniversary of Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury -- former prime minister, noted politician and a Liberation War organiser.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the month-long Amar Ekushey Grantha Mela -- the marquee event of booklovers and publishers -- today.

Protesting the government’s move of signing a contract with a Russian company for gas exploration in Bhola, Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal (BSD) formed a human chain in front of Ashwini Kumar Hall yesterday.

Fondly known as ‘Julian Bhai’ to his Bangladeshi friends, Francis joined a project of Oxfam in Bihar in 1968. He started working at the camp in India for the Liberation War refugees from Bangladesh. The role he played there earned him the ‘Friends of Liberation War’ honour from Bangladesh in 2012. After voting for the first time in the country, he shared his experience with us. Below is what he saw, in his own words.

Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukder has said the voter turnout was less than 25 percent till last reported in the elections to the Dhaka north and south city corporations held today.

Transport owners have decided to operate their vehicles in the capital tomorrow despite BNP calling a daylong hartal on the day.

BNP has called a daylong hartal -- from dawn till dusk -- tomorrow in Dhaka city, rejecting the results of Dhaka North and South City Corporation elections.

A group of Awami League men clashes with BNP activists in front of the latter’s Nayapaltan party office in the capital, hours after voting in Dhaka North and South City Corporations ends.

BNP submits a written complaint to the Election Commission over irregularities centring the ongoing Dhaka North and South city corporation elections.

Awami League presidium member Jahangir Kabir Nanak says there is no need for polling agents during an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM)-only election.

Mostafizur Rahman Sumon, a crime reporter of online news portal Agami News, has been attacked while taking photos of a gathering of Awami League activists at Zafrabad in Mohammadpur.