The historic Homecoming Day of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will be observed today across the country in a befitting manner.

The European Union is moving from a development partner of Bangladesh to trade partner as Bangladesh is graduating to a developing country by 2024.

The Modhumoti Model Town developers continue operations while the government authorities turn a blind eye -- both failing to comply with the highest court’s verdict on retaining the flood flow zone in Savar where the housing project was built illegally.

Bangladesh recorded 16 Covid-19 deaths and 785 fresh cases overnight.

Despite promises of smooth transition of power to Joe Biden, Congressional Democrats accused US President Donald Trump of inciting insurrection and weighed up impeaching him for a second time after supporters fired up by his false claims of election fraud stormed the US Capitol this week.

Police arrested a 22-year-old man on charges of raping a 10-year-old girl in Daganbhuiyan upazila of the district on Thursday night.

Interpol yesterday issued red notice against Proshanta Kumar Halder, also known as PK Halder, who allegedly laundered over Tk 10,000 crore of four non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs) abroad, following a request from Bangladesh Police.

The female O-level student, pronounced dead on arrival at a private hospital in the capital on Thursday, was raped and she died due to hemorrhagic shock and excessive bleeding, a forensic expert at Dhaka Medical College said yesterday.

The government has yet to resolve several key issues before rolling out the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, expectedly from the second week of February.

Whenever there is an incident of rape, most people tend to say that it was the girl or woman’s fault, and question her character, social class, outfit, sexual experience, and lifestyle.

A 17-year-old girl was raped and murdered at a flat in the city’s Kalabagan area yesterday, her mother has alleged.

A Saudi court has rejected the bail petitions of three accused arrested in a case filed for the murder of a Bangladeshi domestic worker in Saudi Arabia two years ago.

The government yesterday approved for emergency use Covishield, the Indian version of the Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday renewed her vows to fight corruption and urged people to remain vigilant against any impediment to the nation’s journey forward.

After violent pro-Trump protesters stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday, a growing number of Republican leaders and Cabinet officials told US news media that they believe Donald Trump should be removed from office before January 20. Four of them called for the 25th Amendment to be invoked, and two others said the president should be impeached.

Hours after hundreds of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the US Capitol in a harrowing assault on American democracy, a shaken Congress yesterday formally certified Democrat Joe Biden’s election victory.

A youth was killed during a “gunfight” between police and some people who allegedly tried to snatch an arrestee from a police vehicle at Mithapanirchara Bazar area in Teknaf Sadar upazila of Cox’s Bazar yesterday.

The younger brother of Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader continues to raise questions about the fairness of elections and some lawmakers in greater Noakhali, stirring up a debate in the country’s political arena.

A commemorative stamp is being criticised on social media for saying, “73rd founding anniversary of the East Pakistan Muslim Chhatra League”.

In a bid to boost food grain reserve, the Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase yesterday approved a proposal for procuring 2.5 lakh tonnes of rice.