Cyclone Fani wreaked the most havoc on Narail’s cropland, damaging over 56,000 acres in its “weakened” state after entering Bangladesh.

Police beef up security for Prof Muntassir Mamoon after he files a diary seeking security in purview of receiving death threat from a militant group.

Dutch Ambassador to Bangladesh Harry Verweij has called for branding Bangladesh with a positive image to lure more foreign investments.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says their party's previous decision not to join parliament immediately after the December-30 election was wrong.

Journalist leaders threaten to go for tougher agitation programmes if their four-point demand, including gazette notification of the ninth wage board, is not met before the Eid-ul-Fitr.

With the influence of Cyclone Fani nearly at the end, Bangladesh Meteorological Department forecast a rise in overall temperature across the country.

Voters are exercising their franchise in the maiden election to Mymensingh City Corporation.

The University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB), in association with the World Academy for the Future of Women (WAFW), held a closing ceremony to mark completion of a year-long training programme on leadership skills by the graduates of 2018-19 batch at ULAB auditorium in Dhanmondi yesterday.

Eminent human rights activist Sultana Kamal has filed a general diary with police seeking security, citing death threat from a militant group.

University Teachers’ Network, a left-leaning university teachers’ group, yesterday declared that it could provide an alternative proposal by six months to “protect” universities of the country.

Journalists, authors and artists at a programme yesterday said they had to undergo self-censorship in recent years due to shrinking space of freedom of expression in the country.

Anisuzzaman has been nominated for the Saarc Literature Award 2019.

North Bengal Sugar Mills will observe “Shaheed Day” today in memory of those who embraced martyrdom on this day (May 5) during the 1971 Liberation War.

Residents of KB Aman Ali Road area in port city’s West Bakalia have been suffering from various problems as the adjacent Chaktai canal has been filled with polythene bags.

Two people were killed as a pickup fell into a ditch beside Dhaka-Aricha highway in Cosmos area of Dhamrai upazila in Dhaka yesterday.

The rain that the weakened cyclonic storm Fani brought yesterday has made the mango farmers of Rajshahi region happy, considering prospect of a good yield.

With the theme of “peaceful coexistence”, a total of 16 youths from the Rohingya and host communities in Cox’s Bazar received training in photography and visual storytelling from National Geographic.

The first election to the Mymensingh City Corporation (MCC) will be held today with a total of 2,96,938 voters expected to exercise their voting rights.

Awami League acting general secretary Mahbub-Ul-Alam Hanif yesterday said AL will take part in the rehabilitation works for the victims of cyclone “Fani”, side by side with the government.

State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam yesterday said closing borders to stop the flow of immigrants is not the solution to uphold sovereign authority of countries.