Members of the tea workers community and several rights organisations on Thursday demanded a special quota for children of tea workers in the admission process of Sylhet Agricultural University (SAU).

When I sit for iftar after a long day of fasting, I imagine the table is a treasure trove. There is the gold, silver, and precious stones: the fruits, piyaju-beguni-alu chop, and chickpea dishes. The shine of the glazed jilapi attempts to blind me, but I look beyond. At the end of the table I find what I have been looking for.

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.

Light is a kind of energy that travels in waves -- a vibrating pattern of electricity and magnetism. If eyes could see electricity and magnetism, then each ray would be seen as a wave of electricity vibrating in one direction.

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

In 1996 I was working as a software engineer in Silicon Valley. Engineering was a wonderful profession, but photography was more fun and so captured my free time. Those days, the World Wide Web was in its infancy. Photographs were part of the Web from its beginning and photographers were starting to use it to reach a large audience.

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.

At least three people have been killed and 22 others injured in Dhaka during a nor’wester. One among them has been killed at national mosque Baitul Mukarram while praying post iftar.

Residents of Jurain area in the capital Dhaka stage a demonstration demanding supply of safe and drinkable water by Wasa.

Visiting Gambian Foreign Minister Dr Mamadou Tangara says they are committed to taking the Rohingya issue to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Leaders of Bangladesh Krishak Samity, an organisation of farmers, announce to stage a demonstration across the country on May 23 to press their demands including increasing of paddy price.

Private bus operators in Dhaka start selling advance tickets this morning for home-goers ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr.

The post-deprived faction of Bangladesh Chhatra League yesterday demanded that all leaders, including president and general secretary of the central committee, take dope tests.

His family left no stone unturned to save his life, but it all went in vain as Abul Kalam Azad succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday at DMCH after a month and a half into a fateful road accident, leaving his family reeling not just from his loss but also a huge financial burden.

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The 34th death anniversary of Jonab Ali, former parliament member and founder of Jonab Ali Collage, was observed on Wednesday, says a press release.

Maj Gen (retd) Mesbah Uddin Ahmed Bir Bikram passed away on Wednesday at his East Rajabazar residence, following a cardiac arrest. He was 78.