Amjad Ali, a dramatist, actor and producer of Bangladesh Betar, who retrieved war-time documents from an Al Badr camp in Rajshahi in 1971, passed away on Thursday night.

It is an exhibition that utilises modern technology to offer a magnificent opportunity to walk through history.

Proper digital access is no game for children, it is a right that each and every country should guarantee, a UN watchdog said Wednesday.

Even though police have been saying that Hefajat leaders would file a case against Jhumon Das Apon, they are the ones who ended up suing the Hindu man for criticising a leader of the islamist outfit on Facebook.

With the country observing the golden jubilee of Bangladesh’s independence, the government yesterday published a partial list of freedom fighters containing 1,47,537 names.

A Dhaka tribunal yesterday took into cognisance charges pressed against photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol “for publishing indecent, defamatory, objectionable and fake information” about ministers, lawmakers, and Jubo Mahila League leaders on Facebook.

Although two probe committees found that South Korean company Hyundai Rotem Company (HRC) supplied 10 locomotives to Bangladesh Railway breaching the contract, the BR has now formed another committee to determine whether those engines can be used.

BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman and 24 others were sued under the Digital Security Act in Sunamganj yesterday for claiming Ziaur Rahman to be the first president of the country and the first to declare its independence.

A student of Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology was arrested yesterday in a case filed by police under the Digital Security Act.

Police have arrested 22 people in connection with attacking, vandalising and looting Hindu houses in Noagaon village of Sunamganj’s Shalla upazila on Wednesday.

The alignment of the proposed high-speed train between Dhaka and Chittagong is likely to be changed.

A man died after he allegedly set himself on fire to avoid arrest in a remote village of Sirajganj on Wednesday, police said.

With all four tyres deflated and almost half of each wheel sunk into the ground, one could hardly tell that it is a Toyota Corona Exiv. The car has no windows, not even the front or back windscreens.

Formerly incarcerated cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore went through surgery in his ear yesterday for the wound in his right ear that resulted from the torture he underwent during detention.

The World Health Organization yesterday said there was no reason to stop using AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine after several European countries suspended the roll-out over blood clot fears.

A Bangladeshi woman whose husband died dismantling an oil tanker in a local shipyard was given the green light this week to keep pursuing a claim for compensation from a UK company linked to the vessel in a test case for the shipbreaking industry.

In a telegram sent to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on March 11, 1971, Bhutto expressed his willingness to come to Dhaka immediately to work out a solution so that the National Assembly session could be held soon. He urged Bangabandhu to work together to build a “new system” where there would be no discrimination among provinces as well as among citizens.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has assured that all Bangladeshi migrants -- regular or irregular -- would be vaccinated and that they won’t be forcibly sent back to Bangladesh.

German pharmaceutical giant Merck and a US partner reported promising results Saturday in trials of a drug administered orally to fight Covid-19, saying it helps reduce patients’ viral load.

Tikka Khan was handed over responsibilities of both the governor and martial law administrations in East Pakistan. He was also the commander