Golok Bihari Majumder, a friend of the Liberation War in 1971, who ensured security of Bangladesh's top leaders in India during the war, died yesterday.

Today is the fifth anniversary of death of Matlub Anam, a Language Movement veteran and columnist.

All residents of 51 Bangladeshi enclaves inside India would opt for Indian nationality, according to an unofficial survey. None of the 14,215 inhabitants of those enclaves wants to come to the mainland as "Bangladeshi", says the survey conducted by India-Bangladesh Enclaves Exchange Coordination Committee, a non-government organisation.

Sabura Khatun, mother of Chittagong based the Daily Purbokone's photo journalist Monjur Alam Monju, died of old-age complications at

Today is the 6th death anniversary of Sayed Mohammad Muntasir Yousuf, son of former senior vice president of National Press Club Syed Akhter Yousuf.

Badrun Nahar Tani, the lone female freedom fighter of Hatibandha upazila in Lalmonirhat, died of heart attack in Rangpur Medical

Cracks and potholes have developed in most of the road stretching around 500 kilometres in Comilla City Corporation area, causing inconvenience to movement of vehicles and pedestrians.

We have poverty eradication programmes aplenty but none by way of eliminating beggary. Thus, we get to hear of the declining numbers of people below the poverty line being claimed as poverty alleviation successes.

A report published in this newspaper yesterday reveals an alarmingly high number of caesarean deliveries performed in private hospitals.

We are shocked that for the second time a Border Security Force (BSF) court has exonerated the BSF jawan accused of killing 15-year-old

This is a problem recurring every year and it is the unfortunate homebound passengers who have to endure the trauma. No sooner were

Najma Majid, former additional director of the Directorate of Ministry of Women's Children's Affairs, died on Wednesday, said a press

The namaz-e-janaza of A Khaleque, a banker, will be held today at Uttara Sector-4 mosque after Asr prayers.

Today is the 20th death anniversary of Muhammad Ansar Ali, a freedom fighter and justice of Bangladesh Supreme Court.

It is heartening to note that the fiscal year has closed posting $15.31 billion worth of remittance, the highest ever in Bangladesh's history.

The fate of many admission seekers to colleges is still hanging in the balance, even though classes have already commenced at colleges across the country on Wednesday.

The father of Felani Khatun, the girl in the iconic photo showing a body hanging from a barbed-wire fence, has rejected the verdict of an Indian court that once again acquitted a BSF man of shooting his daughter on Indo-Bangla border in January 2011. Constable Amiya Ghosh of Border Security Force (BSF) was brought to a second round of trial earlier this week after he was exonerated in 2013. Hearing the retrial, the General BSF Court in West Bengal's Cooch Behar district on Thursday upheld the previous judgment that Amiya was "not guilty", sources told our New Delhi correspondent yesterday.

Eminent writer and professor of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (Sust), Dr Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, resigned from all three

Over 40 percent girls skip school for three days each month on average during menstruation due to poor toilet facilities, according to a

The Supreme Court yesterday said those who had enforced agitation programmes must shoulder the responsibility for violence and criminal activities that took place during the programmes.