Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif yesterday said terrorism emerged in the country under the patronage of BNP.

Former Supreme Court Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik yesterday at a programme blamed former President Ziaur Rahman for initiating toxic politics and his party Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) for patronising militant forces in the country.

With an aim to boost broodfish stock in Halda, the Hathazari upazila administration has taken up a project to release one lakh fry in the river.

A total of 1,460 new dengue patients are admitted to hospitals in the last 24 hours across the country.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor M Atiqul Islam says all the fundamental assistance would continue for fire victims of ‘Chalantika’ slum near Rupnagar area of Mirpur-7, which broke out at around 7 pm yesterday leaving hundreds of people homeless.

A female Hajj pilgrim is killed and 17 others are injured as a bus carrying Bangladeshi Hajj pilgrims is involved in a tragic road accident in Saudi Arabia.

The maiden return Hajj flight arrives at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

A three-member probe committee has been formed to investigate the devastating slum fire in Chalantika area of Dhaka's Mirpur.

Police yesterday recovered the body of a teenage rickshaw-puller from Daldali Tea Garden area in Sylhet Sadar upazila.

A domestic worker died after falling from a building in the capital’s Dhanmondi area yesterday afternoon. Police suspected that she died while trying to flee from the home where she was working.

The friendly ties between Bangladesh and India have grown stronger and reached a new height under the guidance of Prime Ministers Sheikh Hasina and Narendra Modi, Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Syed Muazzem Ali yesterday told officers taking part in

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BNP yesterday alleged that the government has destroyed the leather industry, after that of jute, in a planned way to make the country dependent on others.

Diplomats at a discussion in UN Headquarters recalled the contribution of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in realising rights of the deprived, terming Bangabandhu a “Friend of the World”.

The 13th death anniversary of renowned poet Shamsur Rahman will be observed today.

Heavy rush of passengers returning to the capital after Eid resulted in overcrowded launches and people missing their transport at Barishal Launch Terminal yesterday.

Where there are sources that produce medical waste, there should also be means to dispose those of on a regular basis. Unfortunately, in a city like Barishal, there is no such mechanism for doing so, resulting in high risk of public health and environmental degradation.

Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday said Rashed Chowdhury, a fugitive killer of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, will be brought back to the country from the USA in order to execute the Supreme Court verdict on him.

“I fell in love with how modern Jibanananda Das’ work was, and how unusual the temperament behind it was. And it’s not just his poetry, his life is just as interesting to me,” said Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Sunairi, who has been researching on Das for the past few months.

I first met her on Christmas Day a few years ago. In the late winter afternoon I was looking for birds in a large field in Purbachol. I found her perched on the very top of an Akond shrub. I couldn’t recognize her from a distance and, intrigued, came closer. Her underpart was cream coloured and she was brown on the top. Her wings had brown stripes and three dots near each shoulder. She was hardly larger than a sparrow. I photographed her, came closer and photographed her again.