BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia last night stressed the importance of women working in various sectors and urged everyone to include women in large numbers in the private sectors including journalism for ensuring their empowerment.

Jagannath University authorities suspend four of its students for allegedly harassing a female student on the campus.

Sacked mayor of Gazipur City Corporation MA Mannan has been released on bail yesterday in 22 violence

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) has honoured Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with a special certificate and a crest for her outstanding success in disaster management.

The High Court yesterday asked the chief metropolitan magistrate of Dhaka to inform it in three days whether the summons on BNP leader Tarique Rahman in a money laundering case reached his London address.

Four children are injured as a boundary wall of an under-construction building collapsed in Chittagong city. The boundary wall collapses on the children in Nandan Kanon area of the city when they were playing beside it, police said.

Detectives arrested three alleged arms traders along with some ammunition from Munshi Bagdanga in Jessore town

Several rooms, including that for guests, the provost and house tutor's offices and six CCTV cameras in Dhaka University's (DU) Sir AF Rahman Hall were vandalised after the senior administrative officer with a police team conducted a drive around 1:00am yesterday to evict outsiders.

An inter-ministerial meeting yesterday asked officials concerned to accept cases over child repression as soon as the allegations are lodged.

A young man dies from suffocation and three others fall sick as a fire broke out at a scrap material shop beside the vegetable market in Dhaka New Market area.

Senior BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said the government had created a suffocating situation in the country by snatching people's all rights including freedom of expression.

President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pay their deep homage to the martyrs of the historic Language Movement by placing wreaths at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka at one minute past midnight on the occasion of Amar Ekushey and the International Mother Language Day.

BNP leader Moudud Ahmed yesterday criticised former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque as he wrote the final verdict of scrapping the 13th amendment to the

Former information minister Abul Kalam Azad yesterday expressed his grievance over not getting a reply to a

BNP chief Khaleda Zia's remarks on the number of martyrs during the 1971 Liberation War were "contextually correct", party acting

The ruling Awami League-led 14-party alliance yesterday demanded an end to diplomatic relations with Pakistan for interfering in

Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday said it is not possible to build national unity through making

BNP yesterday hoped that the party would be able to make a turnaround by holding its forthcoming sixth national

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad yesterday said democracy had been “exiled” from the country as there was no freedom of expression now.

District unit presidents and general secretaries will have to send names of probable chairman candidates for the upcoming union parishad elections to BNP's central office in the capital's Naya Paltan at least seven days before the nomination submission deadline.