The Supreme Court yesterday upheld a High Court verdict that had directed mobile phone operators to stop using the national anthem as ringtones or welcome tunes on mobile phones.

One-fourth, or 25 percent, of the total population will belong to the middle-class income category by 2025, thanks to greater access to education, finance and IT services, and private sector employment, a recent study found.

The fatal attack on a police checkpoint in Ashulia has exposed a lack of skill, training, professionalism and seriousness in the lower tier of police. It also shows a lack of discipline among them and their inability to react sharply to counter sudden attacks. Despite being armed with rifles and shotguns, five constables could not resist two armed attackers, who killed one of their colleagues on the outskirts of the capital on Wednesday morning.

A three-member probe committee has been formed over the attack on police at Ashulia that left a police constable dead.

Development programmes need to be planned in a way that the poor who are the actual victims of inequality get benefits of growth, said Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury yesterday.

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has transferred seven officers-in-charge yesterday.

Mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Sayeed Khokon yesterday said they will repair around 300 lanes and by-lanes in his areas by the end of

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid was elected as the vice president of the 38th Session of Unesco General

There are a total of 47 small ethnic groups in Bangladesh, and 27 of them were included in the government gazette, the state minister for social welfare said yesterday.

The government has taken an initiative to develop a digital flood mapping tool that will help to determine the extent of crop loss in different areas, benefiting small farmers and poor flood victims, an inception workshop was told yesterday.

The police have been asked to keep at least one cop on standby with a loaded gun at checkpoints and open fire the moment they are under attack.

A red carpet is rolled out as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrives in Amsterdam amid a rousing reception on a three-day official visit to the Netherlands at the invitation of her Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte.

Three cases were filed yesterday in connection with Monday's factional clash between two rival groups of Bangladesh

The High Court yesterday again directed the Khulna City Corporation to immediately change the name of Khan A

The information ministry has sent notices to five TV channels allegedly for broadcasting smoking scenes in TV dramas from July 17 to 24 this year violating the tobacco control act.

A condolence meeting was held at the office of Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) in the capital yesterday for Arif Hossen Khan, coordinator, governance of MJF.

The government has decided to appoint Masud Bin Momen as the next Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived in Abu Dhabi yesterday on her way to the Netherlands.

The government has decided to appoint Mizanur Rahman as the next Bangladesh High Commissioner to Canada replacing Kamrul Ahsan, said a foreign ministry release yesterday.

Green activists yesterday demanded a halt to the government efforts to introduce genetically modified (GM) crops, mainly BT Brinjal, which they say has been proved a “failure” in the farmers' fields.