Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation holds a meeting with Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal to meet their demands of bringing amendment to the Road Transport Act-2018.

Sheikh Fazle Shams Parash has been made new chairman of Jubo League, youth wing of Awami League, for the next three years.

A preventive team of Dhaka Customs House recovers 4.64 kilogrames of gold worth Tk 2.32 crore from an incoming flight of Bangladesh Biman from Dubai at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

Reaffirming that the ongoing drives against corruption, militancy and drug will continue, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says she will not spare anyone, no matter who the offender is.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returns home from Kolkata after wrapping up her daylong official visit to India.

A human rights defender from Myanmar yesterday said recent legal steps against his country with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) over Rohingya issue were something the country’s regime “brought upon itself”.

Prof Nazrul Islam, honorary chairman of Centre for Urban Studies (CUS) and former chairman of University Grants Commission, will deliver a lecture on “Urbanisation in Bangladesh: Past, Present and Future” at 4pm today, at the Muzaffar Ahmed Chowdhury Auditorium of Dhaka University’s Social Sciences Faculty.

Former UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon arrived in city last night on a brief visit, his second to Bangladesh this year, after leaving the United Nations.

Finding an open space for children to play in Dhaka is an arduous task. Deprived of playgrounds, young ones living in the city often find themselves too busy with electronics, to the point that it raises concerns for their health.

Around 75 boys and girls -- many in green t-shirts, others wearing karate Gi -- gathered at Bangabandhu Chattar in Savar’s Muktimor area, that too on a Friday morning. For the average Joe, yesterday was just another regular Friday. No classes, no work, a day for people to ignore their problems and relax. Not for them.

It ranks as one of China’s favorite spices. It tastes like onion and garlic and shares similar nutritional values.

A week after the rail accident in Sirajganj’s Ullapara upazila on November 14, the district administration and railway (west zone) in their probe reports have identified separate reasons behind the incident.

Today is the 35th death anniversary of Moqbul Hossain, former deputy director of Bangladesh Power Development Board, says a press release.

During my trip to Brazil last year, I travelled on a boat that traversed the massive Paraguay river - in the wetland called Pantanal - looking for Jaguars.

With the aim to increase cyber awareness among the youth, e-awareness Olympiad “Cyber Champ” was launched in the capital yesterday.

Sitting on the floor by her son, Nurunnahar gently moves Ibrahim’s head upwards and helps him drink water.

Tamanna Nusrat Bubly, a member of parliament from reserved seat-24, who had made headlines for cheating in a degree test, was expelled yesterday by Awami League.

With its clean and calm ambience, the institute looks like a privately-run one, well-equipped to provide treatment to patients.

A union parishad (UP) secretary was killed after a covered van hit his motorbike at Haldiapukuri village in Boda upazila of Panchagarh on Thursday night.

Terming the government fascist, BNP yesterday said the same autocratic rule prevailed during Ershad and Ayub Khan regimes.