Locals of Manikdi in Matikata blocked Kalshi New Road for about two hours up to 8:00pm yesterday after a student was killed in a road accident, said police.

Senior BNP leader Nazrul Islam Khan yesterday said though the government was conspiring to keep their top leaders away from future polls by “punishing them in false cases”, “big leaders were not necessary for winning any polls”.

The condition of BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka, who is being treated in the US for cancer in the rib, has been deteriorating since the last couple of months.

Agitating medical college admission seekers will hold a solidarity rally at the capital's Shahbagh at 4:00pm tomorrow, renewing the demand for rerun of the entrance test.

Hindu devotees yesterday celebrated Kumari Puja, a major attraction of Maha Ashtami, amid fanfare at Ramkrishna Mission's puja mandaps across the country.

Bangladesh’s garment exports would more than double if the country could capture 20 percent of China’s share in a year, as China has been shifting its manufacturing base to other sectors, according to a World Bank study.

Counsel for the key accused Kamrul Islam yesterday completed cross-examinations of 11 witnesses in 13-year-old

Customs intelligence officials seized around 0.5kg of gold, 42 mobile phone sets and 20 cartons of foreign cigarettes

The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined five washing factories Tk 27 lakh in the capital's Rupnagar for

Prof Beggzadi Mahmuda Nasir, founder principal of Central Women's College and founder vice chancellor of Central Women's University, is undergoing

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said the government has taken an initiative to collect

Two days have passed since a doctor of Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) was stabbed in his house at Agrabad in the port city on Monday but law enforcement agencies are yet to trace any of the assailants and the motive of the attack.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Civil Aviation and Tourism Ministry yesterday recommended that the government do not renew the job contract of Biman Bangladesh Airlines Managing Director Kyle Haywood because of his “poor performance”.

The body of a man was found in a toilet of a hotel room while two youths were killed in separate incidents in the

Three ship-breaking workers, who were injured in a gas-tank explosion at RA Ship-breaking Yard in Chittagong's

Gonotantrik Bam Morcha yesterday announced holding a programme on November 5 to express solidarity with others demanding cancellation of the coal-based Rampal power plant project to preserve the Sundarbans, situated some 14 kilometres away.

The Gono Bishwabidyalay authorities yesterday suspended BBA first year student Bikrom Moni Das in an allegation of stabbing a girl to death at her school gate at Boardghar in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur on October 13.

Forty-five journalists, creative writers, television and radio programme producers were honoured with 11th Meena

New research about treating Post Kala Azar Dermal Leishmaniasis (PKDL), done by international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Mymensingh uncovered an improved treatment regimen.

High Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA) officials and representatives of agitators demanding fresh medical and dental college admission tests yesterday failed to reach consensus on forming a body to probe allegations that the September 18 tests' question papers were leaked.