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

To celebrate the Bengali New Year -1426, which falls on April 14, Dhaka University’s Faculty of Fine Art is taking preparation to bring out traditional procession-- Mangal Shobhajatra.

A tea vendor and two others sustain burns in Dhaka’s Uttar Goran area following an altercation over payment of tea.

A police officer is killed after a lorry runs him over on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway at Bandar upazila of Narayanganj.

Bhutanese Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering pays rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and liberation war martyrs soon after arriving here today for three-day official visit.

A Jagannath University student has been placed on two-day remand over a Facebook post that allegedly demeans religion.

The Directorate of Madrasa Education (DME) has written a letter to the authorities concerned for scrapping the monthly pay order (MPO) of Feni’s Sonagazi Islamia Senior Fazil Madrasa Principal Siraj Ud Doula, the main suspect in killing of Nusrat Jahan Rafi.

A group of people stage a demonstration in Dhaka demanding justice for Nusrat Jahan Rafi, a madrasa student in Feni who was burned to death for protesting sexual assault.

Two suspects including Nuruddin are arrested in connection with the murder of Alim examinee Nusrat Jahan Rafi from Mymensingh and Dhaka. Nuruddin, one of two close aides to main suspect Siraj Ud Doula, has been arrested from Seedstore area in Bhaluka upazila.

A man is arrested in a case filed for attempting to kill his wife by setting her on fire at GEC residential area of Chattogram.

Nine people -- including Dr Shamsuddin Ahmed and three of his colleagues, who were brutally killed by the Pakistani occupation army in 1971 -- were remembered in Sylhet.

The state always tries to exercise control over universities so that no revolution or protest can happen there, eminent educationist Prof Serajul Islam Choudhury said yesterday.

Days leading up to celebrations like Pahela Baishakh and New Year are terrifying for stray dogs in Cox's Bazar as culling drives are carried out at these times, but a group of animal lovers have joined forces to change that.

Dr Ehsan Hoque, founder and executive director of US-based Distressed Children & Infants International, was given a humanitarian award by Tauri Foundation, said a press release on April 6.

Media has been playing a significant role in upholding the spirit of Liberation War, Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury said yesterday.

Today is the 22nd death anniversary of Mohiuddin Ahmed, a Language Movement veteran and Liberation War organiser, says a press release.

At least eight more lives could be saved during Banani's FR Tower fire incident, had “over-enthusiastic” people let firefighters do their job, said Brig Gen Md Sazzad Hussain, director general of Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence (BFSCD) yesterday.

Centre for Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP) has announced that they will donate a prosthetic leg to Russell Sarkar, who lost a leg after a bus ran him over in April 2018.

Nestled between Tin Netar Mazar and court buildings, the mosque-and-tomb compound of Haji Khwaja Shahbaz takes one back to the Mughal era, perhaps because there are no high-rises directly overshadowing its premises.

The Supreme Court yesterday appointed four eminent jurists as “amicus curiae” (friend of the court), for hearing their expert opinions on the meaning and tenure of a convict's life imprisonment.