Tributes poured in from around the world for Brac founder Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, who breathed his last at a city hospital on Friday night.

Abed left us. But it is not possible to bid him farewell. He will remain our friend and a fellow nation builder forever.

The cold spell continued for the third consecutive day yesterday, hitting people’s day-to-day life across the country. The northern and northeastern regions are the worst affected.

Seven ministers do not feature in the partially announced Awami League Central Working Committee, and party insiders view it as an effort to separate the party from the government.

A bolt from the blue came in 2005 and left Sufia Begum in despair: she lost her husband, the sole breadwinner in her family, in an instant to electrocution, leaving her with no money and three young daughters to raise by herself.

Bangladeshi entrepreneurs are not behind their global counterparts in leveraging technology for the greater good.

Condolences began pouring in after news of the death of Brac founder Sir Fazle Hasan Abed broke.

It rained fours and sixes in Chattogram as the Chattogram Challengers posted 238 for four, the highest score of the ongoing Bangabandhu Bangladesh Premier League (BBPL), which Cumilla Warriors threatened to chase down before falling 16 runs short at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium yesterday.

Six more protesters died in India yesterday in fresh clashes between police and demonstrators, taking the death toll to 15 in more than a week of unrest triggered by a citizenship law seen as anti-Muslim.

Festivity was in the air. Large flags, banners, festoons and portraits of Awami League leaders were everywhere at the capital’s Suhrawardy Udyan, where thousands of leaders and activists went to join the party’s 21st council yesterday.

Some personalities are so much larger than life that boiling down their accomplishments to a few words is an almost impossible task. Sir Fazle Hasan Abed is one such person.

After a day’s break, the Bangabandhu Bangladesh Premier League (BBPL) resumes today at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram and hosts Chattogram Challengers will be looking to consolidate their place at the top of the table in the evening match against Cumilla Warriors.

Indian police yesterday detained thousands of protesters from various venues across the country as they defied bans on assembly in growing anger at a new citizenship law seen as anti-Muslim.

Beginning today, the two-day Awami League council may drop hints about the future leadership of the party.

Grameenphone’s parent company Telenor recently sent a legal notice to President Abdul Hamid, demanding international arbitration to resolve the telecom regulator’s “disputed” audit claim of Tk 12,580 crore, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar said yesterday.

Donald Trump became the third US president to be impeached as the House of Representatives formally charged him with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress in a historic step that will inflame partisan tensions across a deeply divided America.

A mild cold wave is sweeping through the country, especially the north-western regions, since yesterday, forcing people to limit their outdoor activities in many districts.

Nineteen managing directors have adorned the top position at the state-owned Bangladesh Telecommunication Company Ltd in its life of 11 years.

Two security guards strangled Chinese national Jianhui Gao to death in his Banani flat and looted Tk 3.49 lakh. To cover up the murder, the two buried the body behind the building, police said at a press conference in the DMP media centre yesterday.

Amid nationwide outrage and angry protests, the Liberation War affairs ministry yesterday suspended the controversial and flawed Razakars’ list three days after its publication.