Valerie Ann Taylor, founder of Centre for Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP), is an angel who has been serving the people of Bangladesh for the last 50 years, said Gowher Rizvi, prime minister’s international affairs adviser.

Nippon Foundation, a Japanese non-profit organisation, is going to donate around USD 2 million (about Tk 17 crore) to Brac towards its education programme for Rohingya children in Cox’s Bazar.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has offered a 10 per cent discount on its ticket for its app users from December 16 to February 15 next year.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Bangladesh government sign agreements for $33.26 million in loan for a project to design the Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) line 5 (Southern route) that will help ease the traffic and pollution burden in Dhaka city.

A Dhaka court summons Rafida Ahmed Bonya, widow of slain writer-blogger Avijit Roy, and five other prosecution witnesses to appear before it for delivering their statements on December 30 in Avijit murder case.

The government will bring Bangladeshi migrant workers under two compulsory insurance schemes of Tk 2 lakh and Tk 5 lakh in a bid to provide financial security to them and their family members.

Unidentified miscreants torch three motorcycles on the High Court Street in Dhaka.

University Grants Commission (UGC) orders closure of evening courses at all public universities as what it said the courses tarnish the educational institutions' image.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir apprehends that the government might change the BSMMU’s medical board report on his party Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s health condition and would submit a different report to the court.

A man is crushed under the wheels of a bus when he was hurriedly getting down of the vehicle after two women passengers brought allegation against him of sexual harassment in Chattogram city.

Speakers at a discussion yesterday urged the government to bring qualitative changes in skills training for female migrant workers to ensure their safety abroad.

Noting that financing gap is the main challenge for Bangladesh to attain Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, President Abdul Hamid yesterday called for cooperation among nations, including developed countries, to be more active in mobilising required funds.

A young woman was killed and five were injured in an explosion at a sweater factory in Ashulia of Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka yesterday.

Himal Southasian has announced Bangladeshi writer Mashiul Alam’s short story “Milk”, translated by Shabnam Nadiya, as winner of their end-of-year short story competition, as per the magazine’s website.

An elderly woman was allegedly killed by her son after an altercation at Doloipara village in Sylhet Sadar upazila on Monday night.

Rights activists and academicians at a conference yesterday urged the government to end division among the citizens based on ethnic and religious identity, which goes against the founding principles of Bangladesh.

Prosecution witness Najmul Ahsan yesterday told a Dhaka court that he along with some people, rushed to the office of Jagriti Prokashani at Aziz Market and found the office door locked at around 3:50pm on October 31, 2015.

Admirers from all walks of life thronged the central Shaheed Minar yesterday to pay their tributes to Professor Ajoy Roy.

Three separate motorbike-related accidents killed three people in Kishoreganj Mymensingh, and Noakhali districts yesterday, while another two died in another road crash in Noakhali. Among the deceased were a seven-year-old boy and a police constable, reported our correspondents.

The number of terrorist incidents has come down significantly in the last three years, but the threat of radicalisation is on the rise, according to research by the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).