A section of teachers at the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (Sust) yesterday staged a sit-in in front of the administrative building, reiterating their demand for removal of Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Md Aminul Haque Bhuyan.

We are into the fourth day since three wagons of a train, each carrying 25,000 litres of furnace oil, plunged into a canal in Boakhali upazila of Chittagong, dangerously close to the Karnaphuli River.

In separate drives yesterday, police and a mobile court in Chittagong city seized a huge amount of expired Tang, a brand of powdered beverage, and fined eight shop owners for various irregularities while a Barisal mobile court destroyed shrimps mixed with expired fruit jelly.

Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation will pay Tk 30 for buying per litre of oil spilled from three wagons of a train that plunged into a canal in Boalkhali upazila in Chittagong.

Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed yesterday decided to file a petition with the Supreme Court seeking a review of its ruling that upheld the death penalty

BNP yesterday described the abduction of Border Guard Bangladesh's Nayek Abdur Razzak by Myanmar's border force as a "shame" for

At least 40 passengers were injured when a moving train hit a stationary one at Kakina Railway Station in Lalmonirhat-Burimari land port yesterday morning, reports our Lalmonirhat correspondent.

Bangladesh Mahila Parishad awarded female Language Movement veterans and some other women with its annual Sufia Kamal Honorary

Environment and climate issues have got little importance in the proposed national budget for the 2015-16 fiscal year, Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (Bapa) said yesterday,

Some social and environmental organisations formed a human chain yesterday demanding food courts at every district to ensure safe food.

Seventeen eminent citizens yesterday expressed grave concern over the recent killings of freethinkers and repeated death threats on

The government will not import wheat from Brazil again in the future because of the bad experience about the standard of the wheat

At least 10 people, including three policemen, were injured in a clash over land dispute in Shempur of Birulia in Savar, outside the capital, on Friday night.

Prices of essential food items that make up the traditional fare for breaking fast shot up anywhere between 50 and 100 percent in the

During Ramadan most eateries, whether they are vendors or restaurants, change their menus to cater needs of people at iftar in the evening.

A photo-story of The Daily Star published yesterday depicts the hazardous condition in which children are working in the city, at a time of

The admission tests for the first year honours courses under 2015-2016 academic session at Chittagong University (CU) will be held

Vietnam on Friday said it will waive visas for travellers from five more European countries including Britain and France as authorities

MA Kashem, a promoter and founder member of North South University (NSU), was elected the chairman of the Board of Trustees of NSU

The government's plan to take back 2,000 acres of land out of nearly 2,500 acres from the Korean Export Processing Zone (KEPZ) would jeopardise an investment of $1.2