The High Court yesterday rejected a writ petition which sought its order for instruction to cancel the medical admission test held on September 18 and to conduct a judicial inquiry into the test question leak allegation.

Shaheed Noor Hossain Day is being observed today with due solemnity commemorating the sacrifice of the pro-democracy activist.

Begum Fazlatunnessa, wife of freedom fighter and late naval officer AM Ataul Haque, died at a Dhaka hospital last night, aged 80.

Today is the 10th death anniversary of Enayetullah Khan, founding editor of the daily New Age and editor-in-chief of the weekly Holiday, says a press release.

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.

Asma Kibria, widow of former finance minister and Awami League leader SAMS Kibria, dies of cardiac arrest at a Dhaka hospital.

The November 8 election in Myanmar is a step forward and a significant improvement on the manifestly rigged affair in 2010.

The courts have awarded various degrees of punishment to most of the accused, including the maximum punishment to several of them, in the killing of two young boys in Sylhet and Khulna.

Jogomaya Dey, wife of Amrita Lal Dey and chairperson of Amrita Lal Dey and Co, died due to old-age complications at her Karikor Birri residence in Amrita Lal Dey Road yesterday. She was 84.

A Ziafat in memory of Abu Taher, son of late Yakub Ali, will be held tonight in his Eidgah residence in Chittagong after the Esha prayers.

The government must free of illegal occupation pedestrian passages, particularly those in the capital, to help public mobility, said Housing and Public Works Minister Mosharraf Hossain yesterday.

It was the common people who played the key role to ensure justice for the gruesome murder of 13-year-old Rajon in Sylhet.

For the past week, Chittagong city residents have been forced to choose alternative, albeit more expensive, fuel sources to cook.

It is not very common to see a judge subjected to disciplinary action. Yet in what is a rare case, the law ministry has initiated disciplinary

Rabeya Khatun, mother of Managing Director of Western Marine Shipyard Ltd Sakhawat Hossain, died of old-age

Modhusudhan Roy, former vice-president of Thakurgaon Lawyers' Association and district leader of the Workers Party of Bangladesh, died

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According to the study 'Size and growth of the middle class in Bangladesh: trends, profiles and drivers' unveiled recently by the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS)

Today is the eighth death anniversary of the first Bengali Muslim lady doctor of the then undivided Bengal Prof Dr

Bangladesh's non-resident High Commissioner to Malta Md Jashim Uddin, who is also Greece's ambassador, presented his credentials to