Rajshahi’s Nandangachi Degree College principal says decision came amid student protests

Proposed visit will include discussions on bilateral relations and regional and global issues

Train services were disrupted earlier in the day as water submerged tracks at Sholoshahar, while classes and examinations continued

The petitioner argues the provision undermines lawmakers’ constitutional independence and parliamentary accountability

Protests spread as workers reject 5% wage increment and demand union election

Students demand action over alleged harassment; university authorities yet to make a decision regarding the incident

Farmers flock to the historic market in Faridpur's Bhanga for boats needed to harvest, ret and wash jute in waterlogged fields

The Indian envoy says direct talks between the two leaders can help resolve bilateral differences and strengthen ties

Dhaka says bilateral visit has been under discussion for weeks

Yard authorities said he was not working at the time

Moulvibazar Fish Seed Production Farm, established to supply quality fish seed to farmers, is struggling to meet local demand as prolonged manpower shortages and inadequate maintenance hamper production.

Four people were killed and two others injured after a pickup van overturned in the Manikchhari area of Rangamati town early yesterday.

The prosecution yesterday informed the International Crimes Tribunal-2 that 20 of the 30 accused against whom arrest warrants were issued in the case over the May 5-6, 2013 crackdown on Hefazat-e-Islam activists at Motijheel’s Shapla Chattar and in Narayanganj have been confirmed absconding so far.

Six patients died with measles-like symptoms in the 24 hours until 8:00am yesterday, bringing the country’s combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 908 this year.

Business leaders at a discussion yesterday urged the government to regulate the rapidly growing number of battery-run rickshaws, free Dhaka’s footpaths and roads from hawker encroachment, address waterlogging, and repair dilapidated roads.

The government is set to undertake a Tk 567 crore project in its first phase, backed by World Bank funding, to protect the capital and surrounding areas from severe flooding and waterlogging.

9 Bangladeshis, one Sudanese confirmed dead after Greece-bound boat drifts in Mediterranean for 11 days

Khaleque Bhuiyan still remembers the day the piling equipment arrived at Payrakunj, seven kilometres from Patuakhali town, a spot where a bridge over the Payra river was finally meant to rise.

Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Mia Golam Porwar yesterday said the government should take effective steps to address the energy crisis instead of raising old political controversies to conceal the real causes of public suffering.

Hundreds of people in Phulpur upazila of Mymensingh have been using a bamboo bridge over the Kharia river for the past 20 years.