Garment workers set a bus afire after it ran over one of their colleagues in Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj this morning. Agitating workers also vandalised at least 10 vehicles, witnesses say.

Commercial banks and non-banking financial institutions must provide minimum Tk 50,000 as loan to at least a woman entrepreneur each year

AS the nation celebrates the forty-fourth Independence Day grateful Bangladeshis need to remember Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the intrepid architect of our freedom struggle.

US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal says the United States cares Bangladesh mentioning that Bangladesh-US relations are larger and stronger than ever

Prof Emajuddin Ahmed says BNP will participate in the upcoming Dhaka and Chittagong city corporation elections if “level-playing field” is ensured

Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Dr Atiur Rahman asks the commercial banks to take the highest cautionary measures so that no one can use the banking channel for financing terrorism both at home and aboard

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asks grassroots leaders of Awami League’s Dhaka city unit to work together for the party-backed candidates in the upcoming Dhaka city corporation elections

Love ends in death for two teenage Madrassa girls as they commit suicide together, side by side, dumped by their lovers in Lalmonirhat

Incumbent BNP backed Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) Mayor M Manjur Alam Manju resigns and joins the next mayoral race for the port city

A man burnt alive as a fire broke out at a slum in Chittagong city

A teenage boy is killed as a crude bomb went off in Nawabganj upazila of Dinajpur

Haji Mohammad Salim, a mayoral candidate who was reportedly advised by the Awami League high command not to contest the Dhaka South City Corporation elections, goes to India for ‘treatment and offering special prayers at a religious place’

Chittagong unit of BNP extends its support to M Manjur Alam Manu for the mayoral post in the upcoming Chittagong City Corporation polls

Captain (relieved) Kismat Hasem, who was handed down life term imprisonment in the historic jail killing case, dies in Canada

Legal action will be taken against accused in criminal cases if they run for Dhaka city polls without securing bail, DB official says

The nation is celebrating the 45th Independence and National Day today with due solemnity and festivity

The most popular search engine, Google, has outlaid its cover page with green and red portraying the essence of Bangladesh's independence

The United States has said the violent political impasse in Bangladesh unfortunately is impeding the economic progress

Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) allegedly pick up four members of the Detective Branch (DB) of police at Comilla frontier after they entered into the no-man's land to arrest a Bangladeshi man

Haji Mohammad Salim is likely to step aside from mayoral race in the upcoming Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) elections upon advice from the Awami League high command.