A hundred voices tuned in to sing Amar Sonar Bangla to mark the first ever Victory Day in the recently dissolved enclaves in the northern district of Lalmonirhat.

Kamal Lohani, the eminent journalist reminisces the Victory Day on December 16, 1971...

People all round are celebrating the 44th anniversary of victory, reaped through bloodshed of 3 million people and nine months of hardship. The day began with President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paying rich tributes to the National Mausoleum in memory of the martyrs.

It was a treacherous journey. On bull-carts and on foot. But it was the journey that finally led to the fall of Dhaka in 1971 and the victory for Bangladesh and its 75 million Bangalis.

The Election Commission has sent letters to around 20 returning officers for their inaction in taking steps against the people for violating electoral code of conduct.

World Bank Senior Vice President and chief economist Dr Kaushik Basu says poor infrastructure and slow bureaucracy are two major challenges for Bangladesh’s economy, which is according to him, is standing at the ‘takeoff stage’.

The government decides to allow a person to register maximum 20 cellular phone SIM cards against his/her national identity card, says State Minister for Posts and Telecommunications Tarana Halim.

Terming ruling Awami League an evil force, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia calls for a national unity to protect the country from the grip of the party.

The High Court fixes January 3 next year for passing an order on a writ petition seeking stay on municipality elections slated for December 30.

A local Jamaat-e-Islami leader is shot dead during a police drive in Chittagong’s Sitakunda upazila.

Ruling Awami League directs its activists to avoid using photographs except those of Sheikh Hasina and Bangabandhu during political publicity.

The High Court today questioned legality of collecting advance income tax (AIT) from private cars and microbuses.

Three persons including two policemen have been arrested over an incident of snatching gold from a trader in Chittagong city back in September 21.

At least seven passengers are killed and 30 injured in a four-vehicle pile-up after a head-on collision between two buses in Rajshahi city.

The High Court issues a rule upon the government to explain in four weeks as to why it should not be directed to compensate Tk 30 lakh to the family of Nirob, a boy who died after falling in a sewer.

Police find Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh’s link to the killing of Japanese national Kunio Hoshi and five recent incidents of attacks in Rangpur and Dinajpur, the deputy inspector general (DIG) of police (Rangpur range), says.

The High Court directs Rajuk chairman to submit before it in two months a list of unauthorised structures built at car parking areas beside roads in Dhaka.

The National Investigation Agency of India files its second supplementary charge sheet in the Burdwan bomb blast case, slapping fresh charges against 28 accused including a JMB man for waging war against Bangladesh.

An intercity train gets derailed in Narsingdi, cutting off the rail communication on Dhaka-Chittagong and Dhaka-Sylhet routes.

A teenager, who suffered burn injuries in a fire at a hostel in Wari area of Dhaka, dies at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.