It was around 11:30pm. A Dodge car screeched to a halt before the ammunition store of the 2nd Field Artillery in the moonless night of August 14.

Rezaur Rahman was a great philanthropist and his death is a huge loss for the country, said speakers at a commemorative meeting

The government's decision to fix the speed limit of vehicles on highways across the country at 80 kilometres per hour in an attempt to reduce frequent road accidents may have been well-intentioned, but it has left officials at a loss about how to implement it.

Forty years ago today was the darkest day in our national history. For, on that day Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman without whom Bangladesh, the nation-state we call our home, would not have been born, was assassinated along most members of his family.

Justice is yet to be delivered in the cases filed in connection with the murders of Sheikh Fazlul Haque Moni and Abdur Rab Serniabat,

A recent report in this newspaper of a ruling party lawmaker's men snatching away a criminal from Rab custody underlines a serious abuse of power in utter disregard for the law of the land.

A recently held seminar in the city organized by the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) brought together union representatives, business leaders in garments industry and other stakeholders to deliberate on the issue of compliance.

Nazrul Islam Pintu, a college teacher and a cultural personality, died from blood cancer at Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College and Hospital in Bogra town yesterday.

Mukuly Begum literally struggled to take her thirteen-month-old daughter on her lap.

Although many tanneries located in Hazaribagh have been taking preparations to relocate to Savar, the High Court has issued a contempt ruling against ten factories for non-compliance.

It is reassuring to hear from the new Expatriate Welfare Minister Nurul Islam that the government will introduce a disciplined system for sending workers to Malaysia so that no one would be exploited.

Sraddha of Nilima Majumdar and Smrity Kona Saha Hena, mother and wife of Aurthokagoj Editor Pronab Majumdar, will be held today at

Salamot Khan, a veteran journalist and also a Lalon researcher, passed away at Faridpur Heart Foundation yesterday. He was 58.

Md Milon Mia, youth and sports affairs secretary of Awami League's Patuakhali district unit and former Patuakhali municipality councillor,

Chehlum of Rokeya Begum will be held tomorrow after Juma prayers at Dakkhin Para Jame Masjid at Raidakkhin village in Singair upazila

Abdul Wadud Molla, a freedom fighter, died at his Pingolia village residence in Gopalganj's Kashiani upazila on Tuesday, aged 82.

Abul Hossain, retired primary schoolteacher and father of Parbatipur upazila correspondent of the daily Samakal Mahmudur Rahman,

Former deputy general manager of Petrobangla MA Wazed died at the capital's Birdem hospital yesterday. He was 72.

The Rayerbazar momorial is the site we go to pay our respects every year to intellectuals massacred on the eve of victory on December 14, 1971.

The one-stop crisis centres (OCC), formed in 2001 to facilitate medical treatment, police assistance, social services, legal assistance and counselling for women and children who were victims of repression, have reportedly been reduced to providing medical services only.