Two youths have confessed to their involvement in Jubo League activist Rezaul Karim Russel’s murder in Mymensingh.

Although six months have passed since two suspected militants were killed during a drive by Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-7) at a hideout in Mirsarai upazila of Chattogram, investigators are yet to ascertain whether they belonged to a faction of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB)

Fabiha Bushra, a Bangladeshi student at Carleton University in Canada, has been awarded with the prestigious “Huntley Schaller Award”.

Students of Mymensingh Medical College (MMC) yesterday boycotted all classes and examinations to protest against authorities’ inaction regarding alleged sexual harassment of a female student by an outsider.

The Maldives has sought information from Bangladesh on investigation into death of the Maldivian model and medical student Raudha Athif who met an unnatural death in Rajshahi in 2017.

Tausif Ahmad, the co-founder and Chief Operations Officer of popular food delivery service HungryNaki, lost his two-year long battle with lung cancer and passed away at a hospital in Malaysia today.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has added another Boeing 737-800 aircraft to its fleet on Thursday.

A couple suffered severe burn injuries in a fire caused by a “TV explosion” at a house in Dhaka’s Agargaon area yesterday afternoon.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Norwegian government yesterday signed an agreement in Dhaka, aimed at fostering peace and harmony in Rohingya camps and host communities in Cox’s Bazar.

Sampriti Bangladesh, a citizens’ platform promoting secularism, yesterday denied any link with an advertisement on “identification of terrorists” that was published in several national newspapers on May 12 and went viral on social media.

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.

A mobile court of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) conducts an eviction and market monitoring drive at Farmgate, Indira Road and Karwan Bazar in Dhaka.

A Supreme Court lawyer files a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directive on the government to form a special task-force to curb severe traffic jam in Dhaka.

Amid widespread outcry over safe water, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Estimate recommends to split the Dhaka Wasa into two parts to ensure supply of safe and drinkable water for the city dwellers.

A couple sustain critical burn injuries in a fire believed to have been originated from an “explosion” at their residence in Dhaka’s Agargaon area.

A tribunal in Dhaka sentences two kidnappers to death and eight others to life in jail in a case filed for kidnapping Abir, an eight-year-old boy, for a ransom of Tk10 crore in May 2015.

Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) cancels the licence of two more products of two companies those were found substandard.

The Dhammarajika Buddhist Monastery in the capital’s Bashabo Sabujbagh area distributes iftar and drinking-water to poor fasting Muslims.

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has invited Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to attend the 14th Islamic Summit of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to be held at Makkah at the end of Ramadan.

Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) predicts rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind at one or two places over the country till 9am tomorrow.