Nek Parvin Chowdhury of Borhanuddin Chowdhury family in Bhola died from lung ailments at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University in the capital on April 5, says a press release.

Police yesterday arrested four war crimes accused of Netrakona, hours after the International Crimes Tribunal-1 ordered the arrest of five men who allegedly committed crimes during the Liberation War in 1971.

The School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) organised a talk on ethnocentrism, strategic culture and leadership language on its Bashundhara campus in Dhaka yesterday.

The Supreme Court yesterday sentenced Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) activist Amjad Ali to imprisonment until his death in two cases filed for killing a litigant and injuring some others by carrying out a bomb attack on a Lakshmipur court in 2005.

A Dhaka court yesterday for the second time deferred to June 7 for hearing on charge framing against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and 10 others in Niko graft case.

A special taskforce of Dhaka Power Distribution Company Ltd (DPDC) yesterday snapped the electricity connection to a high-rise hotel in the capital's Moghbazar for using electricity illegally.

Abul Mansur Ahmad Smriti Parishad will hold a discussion on two books about Abul Mansur Ahmad today at Nalini Kanta Bhattashali Gallery of Bangladesh National Museum at 4:30pm.

An on-duty traffic police lost his both legs after a truck ran him over in Muktapur of Munshiganj yesterday.

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Demanding their five months' due salaries, Barisal City Corporation employees surrounded office of the chief executive Ranajit Kumar, for up to two hours yesterday noon.

The American Embassy will remain closed on April 14 to celebrate the Bangla New Year, a Bangladeshi national holiday.

The High Court yesterday prohibited construction of a “commercial park” in the government land near the district judge court in Noakhali for three months.

A leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) suffered serious injuries in an attack by Bangladesh Chhatra League activists at Jahangirnagar University on Monday night.

The government should cut the price of compressed natural gas (CNG) when reducing fuel oil prices, demanded businesspersons yesterday.

A Dhaka court yesterday sent back Mahmudur Rahman, acting editor of Bangla daily Amar Desh, to jail after rejecting remand and bail petitions in a police assault case.

Miscreants, impersonating as detectives, mug Tk 4 lakh from a private university student at Elephant road in the capital’s Dhaka.

The authorities in Taiwan have accused Kenya of using guns and tear gas to force 37 Taiwanese on to a plane bound for mainland China.

A multistoried building in Dhaka’s Monipuripara, that houses a ready-made garment factory, is evacuated over allegations of tilting.

Police arrested three persons on charge of gang-raping a female RMG worker in Chittagong early hours today and another in Habiganj on Sunday for raping a child.

Nobody can now speak out freely in Bangladesh and Daily Amar Desh Editor Mahmudur Rahman was sent to jail for his statements