Various platforms have formed separate human chains in Dhaka demanding justice for the murder of madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi who was set ablaze allegedly for protesting sexual harassment.

The government will do everything possible for the smooth celebration of Pahela Baishakh across the country, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan says.

Some activists of a faction of Bangladesh Chhatra League allegedly set fire to a stage made for a concert to celebrate Pahela Baishakh on Dhaka University campus and also vandalised around 13 refrigerators of the sponsor company last night.

A Chattogram court places a bus driver on a three-day remand in a case filed over assaulting a female student of Chittagong University when she was returning to the city from the campus.

Bangladesh and Bhutan sign five bilateral instruments to enhance cooperation on inland waterways, health, agriculture, tourism sectors and Public Administration Training Centres.

Thousands of Hindus started observing Astami Snan (holy bath), a religious ritual, yesterday with due respect and solemnity in historic “Durga Sagor Dighi” at Madhavpasha in Babuganj upazila of Barishal.

Police yesterday arrested five teachers including the principal of Omar Faruk Al-Islamia Madrasa and Orphanage, a Qawmi madrasa in port city's Bayezid area, in connection with a case filed over the death of an 11-year-old boy whose body was found hanging at the adjacent mosque on Thursday.

Preparations for Mangal Shobhajatra in Chattogram are nearly complete as artistes and students of the Institute of Fine Arts at Chittagong University are busy putting their final touches to the papier-mâché structures.

Collective efforts from all government and non-government organisations are needed to prevent violence against women, stressed speakers at a discussion yesterday.

A female student of Chittagong University was reportedly assaulted on a moving bus by the driver's helper while she was returning to the city from the campus on Thursday.

On the occasion of Pahela Baishakh, InclusionX -- an organisation that aims to foster a healthy relationship between the intellectually disabled and abled -- arranged a programme open to all at EMK Center on Thursday.

Potters in Madaripur district are busy preparing for the upcoming Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangla year.

Bangladeshi expatriates sent nearly US $12 billion remittance in the first nine months of the current fiscal 2018-19 -- highest in the last three years.

It was the day the first nor'wester of the season hit the city. Jhuma was in Farmgate, desperately looking for any kind of transport to return home after work. Waiting for over half an hour, a bus pulled up in front of her. She boarded the bus, amazed to find that it was a women-only bus.

Bangladesh rolled out the red carpet for Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering as he arrived in Dhaka yesterday morning on a four-day official visit.

Protests demanding justice for Nusrat Jahan Rafi -- a madrasa student of Feni who was brutally burnt, eventually leading to her death -- continued in different parts of the country yesterday.

As human civilization has grown ever more mechanized, an instinct deep within us has created a yearning for the wild and the untamed.

Stand up Dhaka at the Old Street

The 48th martyrdom anniversary of five members of a family will be observed on April 15, says a press release.

Stay cool on Pahela Baishakh: With temperature going above 30 degree Celsius on April 14, don't let the heat dampen your Baishakhi celebration.