The qulkhwani of noted painter Asma Kibria, also wife of slain Awami League leader and former finance minister SAMS

Qulkhwani of Begum Fazilatunnessa, wife of late Lt AM Ataul Haque of Bangladesh Navy also a freedom fighter, will be

Abul Khayer Khan, a businessman and father of Prothom Alo Thakurgaon correspondent Mozibar Rahman Khan, died

Abdul Awal, a former secretary, died in the capital's United Hospital yesterday, aged 78.

Recalling times spent with revered educationalist Prof Zillur Rahman Siddiqui, Prof Emeritus Anisuzzaman yesterday said they had taken part several times in the anti-autocracy movement and in demonstrations against communalism and recognition of Islam as the state religion.

It is disturbing to note that police have allegedly unnecessarily kept three people for 'interrogation' in relation to the case of attack on constables at Ashulia Checkpoint.

THE deadline for Bangladeshis living abroad to switch to machine readable passports (MRPs) runs out in about two weeks time and the...

Today is the 4th death anniversary of Mahmuda Bhuiyan, wife of former police officer late KA Bhuiyan of Srinagar ,

Today is the 7th death anniversary of freedom fighter Abu Taher Bhuiyan, a journalist and a former VP of Feni College.

Today is the 13th death anniversary of Mansur Ahmed Khan, freedom fighter and the first curator of Rajshahi

Today is the 16th death anniversary of Hasna Hena Qadir, one of the founding members of Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal

In a major boost to bilateral security cooperation, Bangladesh handed over top Ulfa leader Anup Chetia to India yesterday, 18 years after his arrest in Dhaka for trespassing. Chetia, a founding member of one of India's top insurgent groups United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa), had been in prison since his arrest in Mohammadpur on December 21, 1997.

Tofazzol Hossain Chunnu, sub-sector commander of Sector-11 during the Liberation War, died of massive heart attack

Myanmar's voters have spoken in the first openly contested election after 25 years, and the National League for Democracy...

The government's countrywide drive to arrest 'suspected troublemakers' in the wake of the recent killings of law enforcement agents and other subversive activities is giving out mixed signals.

In a text message yesterday, country's preeminent intellectual Professor Anisuzzaman was threatened with death.

Malaysian IRIS Corporation Berhad is now not paying Bangladesh about Tk 50 crore it had collected from Bangladeshi expatriates as passport fees.

Today is the 8th death anniversary of Shahabuddin Musharraf Hossain Munir, a former senior economist of IMF and a

Renowned educationist Md Nawab Ali Khan passed away at a city hospital due to old-age complications yesterday. He was 88. He was the founding Principal of Keshabpur Degree College, Jessore.

A report in Prothom Alo has revealed an astonishing fact – a large number of suspected militants are arrested but then get bail because their bail pleas are not contested.