Coast Guard personnel have recovered six geckos, more popularly known as Takshak, during a drive in Manikkhali village under Barguna’s Patharghata upazila and detained one person in this connection.

A loan defaulter from People's Leasing and Financial Service Ltd (PLFSL), a non-banking financial institution, paid repaid Tk 8.30 crore as a due down payment to its liquidator before the High Court on March 15.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today said the independent and democratic Bangladesh was built based on Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s love for his people.

Bangabandhu had made tremendous efforts to strengthen bilateral ties after the independence of Bangladesh, said Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga in a video message today.

Police recovered the body of a Nilgai -- the largest antelope in Asia -- from Khochpara village in Atwary upazila of Panchagarh this afternoon.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said there was no chance for Bangladesh to look back as it was the time to march forward.

Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman devoted his whole life to his country and people, said Chinese President Xi Jinping during a pre-recorded message marking the celebration of Mujib Year and the Golden Jubilee of the Independence of Bangladesh.

Bangabandhu is an icon of democracy and self-determination, and his legacy would endure for many generations to come, said Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih while paying homage to the Father of the Nation at Bangabandhu Memorial Museum in Dhanmondi-32 today.

Once termed a “basket case”, now “South Asia’s economic bull case” is placed far above many desperately poor African nations it was once compared to, with an estimated 2020 GDP per capita of $1,888.

President Abdul Hamid today said politics in Bangladesh is now on a backward trajectory and some opportunists have made politics a profession.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair-2021 on Bangla Academy premises and Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka tomorrow.

A man from the United Arab Emirates was found dead inside a hotel room on Station Road in Chattogram city today.

Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation today launched a special bus service between Tungipara of Gopalganj and Mujibnagar of Meherpur to mark the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

The nation today began a 10-day celebration of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth centenary coinciding with the golden jubilee of independence with a grand ceremony at the National Parade Square in Dhaka.

The High Court will deliver its verdict tomorrow on appeal petitions of the 2003 sensational Jubo League leader Jalal Uddin Sarkar murder case of Gazipur, in which 11 people were sentenced to death by the trial court in 2015.

Two children were electrocuted today from an illegal electric connection at Balatari village in Phulbari upazila of Kurigram.

The decomposed body of an elephant was found in a forest in Cox’s Bazar.

The body of BNP standing committee member and noted lawyer Moudud Ahmed will be brought back home from Singapore tomorrow (Thursday) evening.

Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad today said with obtaining government-provided recognition of prior learning (RPL) certificates, returnee migrant workers will be able to go abroad as “skilled workers”.

On the occasion of 50th anniversary of Bangladesh’s independence and Mujib Borsho, India will give 109 ambulances to Bangladesh during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit on March 26-27.