Reveal inspections by fire service; experts call for strict enforcement of safety regulations

Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain yesterday said Bangladesh has formally requested India to return Sheikh Hasina, describing her as a “convicted fugitive sentenced by the highest court of Bangladesh.”

Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman warned yesterday that Bangladesh will never again tolerate fascism on its soil, saying that while the fascist has fallen, the grip of fascism endures.

Throughout the Liberation War, the oil depots along the Buriganga River in Narayanganj became sites of unspeakable horror.

The medical board overseeing Khaleda's treatment met at Evercare Hospital last night to review her condition.

Farmers in Jamalpur’s Dewanganj upazila are turning fallow, waterlogged lands and marshes into productive fields by cultivating water chestnuts (Eleocharis dulcis).

A fish trader was robbed and hacked to death by unidentified miscreants in Faridpur’s Saltha upazila early yesterday.

A man with physical disability was hanged from a tree with his hands tied and beaten on suspicion of theft in Sylhet’s Companiganj upazila on Thursday.

A man arrested over the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Brahmanbaria’s Nasirnagar on December 2 has confessed to the crimes before a magistrate yesterday, police said.

Four people, including three of a family, were killed and five were injured when a bus rammed into a battery-run easybike on the Dhaka-Barishal highway in Faridpur’s Bhanga upazila yesterday.

A lioness named Daisy got out of her cage at the National Zoo in Dhaka’s Mirpur area yesterday afternoon, prompting authorities to evacuate visitors from the premises.

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman yesterday said autocracy was defeated on December 6, 1990, in the country, which led to the liberation of democracy.

Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury yesterday said the government has not failed in recovering the weapons looted from police stations during the July uprising.

After last year’s mass uprising, students of Jahangirnagar University’s law department staged a series of protests demanding the resignation of Associate Professor Tapos Kumar Das and Suprovat Paul, accusing them of physical and mental torture and harassment.

Fifteen-year-old Rahat Miaji, who was recovering from severe electrocution near a madrasa in Chauddogram, Cumilla, has fallen into danger once again after contracting dengue.

The Zahir Raihan Auditorium premises at Jahangirnagar University turned vibrant yesterday as a daylong Butterfly Fair brought together hundreds of butterflies, vivid photographs, and nature enthusiasts.

The Barguna Liberation War Museum, which was vandalised and looted on August 5 last year following the ouster of the Awami League government, now stands abandoned, empty and padlocked.

Govt adopted a five-year plan to address issues of sugarcane farmers, he says

She arrived at Evercare at about 8:21pm after visiting her parents in Dhanmondi

Pledges to relax rules on sending and receiving money abroad, boost creative industries