Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today put utmost importance on learning the mother language which protects both history and tradition.

Two motorcyclists were killed after a bus hit their motorbike in Munshiganj’s Louhajang upazila today.

The UN educational and cultural agency, Unesco, has encouraged people everywhere to celebrate world’s diversity by supporting multilingualism at school and in everyday life -- the theme for International Mother Language Day, observed today.

Over 200 shanties were gutted in the fire that broke out at Dhaka's Maniknagar area this afternoon.

A student of Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (Ruet) was found dead at a mess in the city today.

The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances wants to undertake a visit to Bangladesh in relation to two cases of enforced disappearances.

A 19-year-old youth raped a 13-year-old girl at Sujanagar upazila in Pabna on Friday night, police said quoting victim’s family.

Police last night arrested a man after he attempted to mug ornaments from a jewellery shop in Dhaka’s Baitul Mukarram Mosque Market, brandishing a bomb-like object.

Students of Rajshahi University today staged a sit-in in front of the residence of the vice chancellor and gave the authorities a 24-hour ultimatum for reopening of the campus and dormitories.

The nation is observing Amar Ekushey -- the Language Martyrs' Day (Shaheed Dibosh) and the International Mother Language Day in a befitting manner today, marking the supreme sacrifice of the language heroes for upholding the right to speak their mother tongue Bangla.

Two persons were killed in separate road accidents in Dhaka airport and Shyampur areas early today.

Six people were killed and 13 were injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Sherpur upazila of Bogura early today.

President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have paid their glowing tributes to the martyrs of the historic Language Movement in 1952 on the occasion of Amar Ekushey and the International Mother Language Day.

A local journalist, who was bullet-hit in clashes between two factions of ruling Awami League over establishing supremacy in Companiganj upazila of Noakhali, died at a Dhaka hospital.

Students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology demonstrated and locked down the university vice-chancellor’s residence for hours to press home their demand for reopening of the halls, which have been closed amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Police recovered the body of a newborn at Ghop Naoapara area in Jashore this evening.

Noakhali district unit of Awami League withdrew a letter recommending withdrawal and suspension of Basurhat Municipality Mayor Abdul Quader Mirza from all activities of the party two hours after issuing it.

Facebook said they have not received the Bangladesh High Court’s order to take down a documentary titled “All the Prime Minister’s Men” which was broadcast by Al Jazeera on February 1.

Attendants of a patient allegedly beat up an official of the private hospital Health and Hope in Dhaka’s Panthapath area following a row over bills this afternoon.

A man was killed and 10 others were injured in a clash between villagers in Midharkandi village under Madaripur Sadar Upazila.