Transport owners yesterday vowed to operate buses in the capital and adjacent areas, defying today’s hartal called by Hefajat-e-Islam.

Bringing students back to school once those reopen after the Covid-19 pandemic will be difficult, but keeping them in classes might be even tougher, speakers said at an online discussion programme yesterday.

BNP yesterday announced demonstrations on Monday and Tuesday, protesting what it said was the “killing” of people in different parts of the country on Independence Day.

Various organisations of journalists condemned the attacks by Bangladesh Chhatra League activists on two journalists covering anti-Modi protest on the Dhaka University campus on Thursday.

After six consecutive meetings, leaders of Hefajat-e-Islam Bangladesh today decided to hand over the four dead bodies of those who died in clash with police yesterday, to the respective family members.

Transport owners today vowed to operate buses in the capital and adjacent areas defying the hartal called by Hefajat-e-Islam tomorrow.

The Joint Secretary General of Hefajat-e-Islam Mamunul Haque today threatened tougher movement if the government tries to hinder tomorrow’s nationwide hartal.

A man was killed after two persons allegedly slit open his throat inside his house in Dhaka’s Mugda area last night.

Bangladeshis across the globe need to raise their voices to earn global recognition of genocide committed by Pakistan occupation forces and their collaborators during Bangladesh’s Liberation War in 1971, speakers said at a webinar on Thursday.

Visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday said he will do his best to ink the treaty with Bangladesh on water sharing of Teesta and other common rivers with India.

“May every visitor to this revered ground honour the sacred memory of the millions who were slain but not silenced,” wrote Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Visitors’ Book, in a touching tribute at the National Martyrs’ Memorial in Savar yesterday.

One day, I was looking for birds in Hail Haor, a low-lying wetland near Moulvi Bazar where monsoon rain accumulates in large saucer-shaped depressions creating beels and fishponds.

Chaos ensued at Baitul Mukarram National Mosque yesterday, as protesters, who are against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to

At least 17 people have died as a microbus caught fire after head-on collision with a Hanif Paribahan bus in Rajshahi's Katakhali area this afternoon.

Firefighters have brought under control a fire that broke out at the Meena Bazar outlet in Dhaka's Dhanmondi area.

Four volunteers of Bidyanondo Foundation were injured in an attack while they were distributing food among children at Kalshi in Dhaka yesterday afternoon.

Australia has announced $10 million in emergency assistance for those affected by the fire in the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar.

Poet Zakaria Chowdhury, a language movement veteran, an expatriate organiser of the Liberation War and former adviser to the government, died yesterday, aged 87, said a press release.

As Bangladesh transitions from least-developed to middle-income country, democratic values, rule of law and use of renewable energy will be some of the major issues that the country should improve on, said a Swedish minister.

A Dhaka court yesterday accepted the charges brought against nine accused in a case filed over the attack on former US ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Bernicat’s convoy in August 2018.