Around 7:00pm on February 14, a group of five or six young girls aged between 14 and 18 were seen roaming around in front of Tejgaon level crossing.

The chairman of a non-banking financial institution, central bank officials, and an audit firm are giving different statements about a scam involving Tk 6.5 crore.

Two college students -- a girl and a boy -- were sexually harassed by youths who forced them into a compromising situation and videotaped them in Noakhali Sadar upazila on Thursday night.

The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine’s first shot starts its effect three weeks after it is administered and remains effective up to three months, according to a latest study.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her government has been working to ensure that no language across the world faces extinction.

Incarcerated for over nine months, writer Mushtaq Ahmed and cartoonist Ahmed Kishore were brought into the courtroom 11 days ago and produced before a judge.

Noakhali Awami League leaders backtracked from their decision to relieve Abdul Quader Mirza of organisational activities within two hours of issuing the release statement yesterday.

“Have you brought the vaccination card, sir?” Rubina Akter asks a middle-aged man who just arrived at a Covid-19 inoculation centre at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the 1952 Language Movement had paved the path for achieving the independence of Bangladesh.

Ekushey Padak and National Film Award winning actor ATM Shamsuzzaman passed away at 9:00pm yesterday at his Sutrapur residence.

The 14 languages declared endangered over two years ago remain in various stages of decline as the number of users diminish, with experts calling for extensive measures from the government to preserve these.

A woman and her two children have been murdered allegedly by her stepson over a family feud in Sylhet sadar upazila.

Rich countries are on course to have over a billion more doses of Covid-19 vaccines than they need, leaving poorer nations scrambling for leftover supplies as the world seeks to curb the pandemic, a report by anti-poverty campaigners found yesterday.

The country’s sports arena was abuzz yesterday morning when news broke that premier all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan was granted permission to skip the Sri Lanka Tests to play in the upcoming 14th edition of the Indian Premier League.

At least 50 people were injured in clashes between two factions of ruling Awami League over establishing supremacy in Noakhali’s Companiganj upazila yesterday.

Bangla has long been neglected in the country’s higher education as a medium of teaching and learning mainly because of a lack of textbooks and adequate research work.

A decision on parliament membership of Mohammad Shahid Islam alias Kazi Papul is likely to be made in two to three days, around three weeks after a Kuwait court sentenced him to four years in prison in a bribery case.

Wealthy G7 powers yesterday ramped up health funding for poorer nations after accusations they are hoarding coronavirus vaccines, as US President Joe Biden and the rest of the leaders declared a "turning point" from the psychodramas of the Trump era.

The mass vaccination campaign has so far drawn much fewer women than men.

Fifteen more coronavirus-related deaths and 391 new cases were recorded in the last 24 hours till yesterday morning.