Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has expressed deep concern over the interim government not taking any initiative to set up the Information Commission and the National Human Rights Commission nearly a year into its tenure.

Education Adviser Prof CR Abrar yesterday said the delay in deciding to postpone Tuesday’s Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examination was “reasonable”.

A seven-year-old girl was raped allegedly by a local tea store owner in Khagrachhari’s Ramgarh upazila on Tuesday.

A man was beaten to death by a mob on suspicion of theft in Dhaka’s Demra area yesterday.

The government’s biggest problem is a lack of experience, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said yesterday.

Thirteen people, mostly children, were fighting for their lives in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) of hospitals yesterday, three days after a jet crashed into Milestone School & College in Uttara’s Diabari.

Two more cases were filed on Tuesday over the July 16 violence in Gopalganj, raising the total number of cases to 10 and the number of accused to 9,850.

An 80-year-old woman was killed after protesting the harassment of her granddaughter in Bagerhat’s Chitalmari upazila, police said.

A woman died after her scarf got entangled in the wheel of a moving battery-run rickshaw in Jashore on Tuesday night.

Dr Md Shahadat Hossain Shibly, a decorated physician from Bangladesh known for his service, intellect, and unwavering compassion, is now waging the most personal and painful battle of his life -- against an aggressive form of recurrent metastatic squamous cell carcinoma.

With the only wooden bridge in the area -- their only means of travel to nearby markets, schools, and health facilities -- washed away by recent torrential rains, residents of Maijgaon in the Ranigaon Union of Chunarughat upazila in Habiganj are now relying on a makeshift banana raft to cross the river.

Tajuddin Ahmad, the founding Prime Minister of Bangladesh, is a towering political figure whose unwavering patriotism, strategic acumen, crisis management skills, and leadership in the country’s Liberation War deserve thorough study, said speakers yesterday marking the birth centenary of the great leader.

The team consists of two doctors and one nurse

The mourning programme was observed to honour the victims of the tragedy

Police detain two accused brothers

As the situation in Myanmar has calmed, authorities were able to convince them to return voluntarily

80% of the varieties are suitable for the Boro and Aman seasons

During the meeting, both sides expressed commitment to working together in combating terrorism and drug trafficking

journalists may conduct live broadcasts from polling centres

One victim run over by bus, the other hit by truck while on motorcycle