Mashrafe Mortaza speaks in press conference after Sri Lanka v Bangladesh match in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 on February 26.

Pragatishil Chhatra Jote, a combine of leftist student organisations, has called a strike at Dhaka University campus on March 2 to realise its three-point demand including immediate arrest and punishment for the killers of secular writer Avijit Roy.

The United States is ready to assist in investigation into brutal killing of Bangladesh-born US citizen Avijit Roy, if sought, US Department of State Spokesperson Jen Psaki says

A Bangladeshi construction worker has been killed and another injured in an accident at the Semantan work site of the Mass Rapid Transit Corporation (MRT Corp) line in Kuala Lumpur

The frequency of violation of civil and political rights to people of the ethnic minority in Bangladesh intensified further during last year, a published report says

United States hopes due process to be followed after an anti-corruption court in Bangladesh issued arrest warrants for former prime minister and opposition leader Khaleda Zia

OF late, we were startled by two falsehoods -- one, a deliberate gaffe corrected post-haste; and the other a mischievous attempt at populism after an anti-people act.

BNP-led 20-party alliance threatens that it would enforce a tougher programmes including countrywide hartal from Sunday if the government does not realise its demand for holding a fresh inclusive national election

Ban Ki-moon express concerned over the rising tensions and continuing violence in Bangladesh and calls for a peaceful resolution to the crisis.

Alleging that the BNP-Jamaat clique is carrying out genocide in the name of hartal and blockade, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said such a situation is not at all acceptable to anyone.

Miscreants set fire to a land office in Chhagalnaiya upazila of Feni

City dwellers in Dhaka came out to the streets and are performing their daily activities even though BNP-led 20-party alliance is observing the fifth day of its 120-hour hartal

Three alleged robbers are killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in the Sundarbans under Sharankhola range of Bagerhat

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says that the country has incurred a loss of over Tk 1.20 lakh crore in the hartals and nonstop blockade since January 6.

Election Commission introduces an online application system for the registration, correction and replacement of voters’ polling areas

Nagorik Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna has been placed on a 10-day remand in a case filed against him allegedly for trying to instigate revolt by the armed forces

A leader of an outlawed party is killed in a “gunfight” with police in Magura Sadar upazila in the early hours of today.

A Dhaka court issues arrest warrant against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in two graft cases

BNP expresses its astonishment after police denies picking up Nagorik Oikya Convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna.

Mahmudur Rahman Manna’s family files a general diary with Banani Police Station after detectives denied his detention.