Thirty-three of the 40 Junior School Certificate (JSC) candidates of Navy Anchorage School and College in Dhaka have won scholarships for their outstanding performance in 2018’s JSC examinations, said a press release.

Mahtab Uddin, a freedom fighter and mentor to a number of journalists in Rajshahi, passed away in Dhaka yesterday morning. He was 80 years old.

An angry mob yesterday lynched an alleged hijacker and injured his accomplice in Masdair area of Narayanganj.

Female crocodile Juliet laid 34 eggs at 9am yesterday at Karmajal Wildlife Breeding Center, Chandpai Range of Eastern Sundarbans division.

Speaker of the Parliament Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury yesterday urged the country’s young generation to enrich themselves with knowledge on information technology (IT).

Mymensingh Medical College students, who had been demonstrating since Thursday protesting authorities’ inaction regarding alleged sexual harassment of a female student by an outsider, have postponed their agitation till June 30.

Buddha Purnima, the biggest religious festival of the Buddhist community, is celebrated across the country with due religious fervor and festivity.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is worried about the declining prices of paddy across Bangladesh, says Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque.

About 95 per cent commuters suffer while 98 per cent of the passengers is the victim of extra fare in public transport during Ramadan in Dhaka city.

Freedom fighter and eminent journalist Mahtab Uddin has passed away in Dhaka at the age of 80. He breathed his last around 7:45am soon after complaining of chest pain at his son’s house in the capital’s Dhanmondi area, our Rajshahi correspondent reports quoting his son Dipto Islam.

Detectives claim to have detained of 23 members of a ‘doping gang’ from different areas of Dhaka.

A woman has been killed and five others of her family members have been injured as a car of a ride sharing service carrying them collided with a private car at Bata Signal intersection of Elephant Road in Dhaka.

A Jubo Dal activist was hacked to death by miscreants in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram early yesterday.

Seven yaba traders yesterday surrendered to police inside a mosque in front of worshippers during Juma prayers in port city’s Bakalia area, responding to Chattogram Metropolitan Police’s (CMP) call to surrender.

Chattogram railway police arrested a man and rescued three Rohingya persons from a Dhaka bound train early yesterday.

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Rights activists at a programme yesterday placed a six-point demand to protect heritage buildings in Sylhet.

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A mobile court yesterday jailed a union parishad (UP) member for one year on the charge of digging a pond in his cropland at Laxmipur village in Natore Sadar upazila defying a High Court ban.

At least three persons were killed and a minor was injured in road accidents in Narsingdi and Khulna districts in the last two days.