Just before his arrest, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman sent a message declaring the independence of Bangladesh. This message was broadcast from Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendro on 26 March, 1971, and was widely reported in newspapers around the world.

Libyan militia leader Mahmoud al-Werfalli, wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes, was shot dead in the eastern city of Benghazi on Wednesday, security sources said.

At least 50 people, including students, were injured in separate clashes involving police, Bangladesh Chhatra League activists and protesters in Motijheel and Dhaka University areas yesterday.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has written a letter to his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina, congratulating her on the occasions of the Golden Jubilee of Independence and Mujib Borsho.

With the country observing the golden jubilee of Bangladesh’s independence, the government yesterday published a partial list of freedom fighters containing 1,47,537 names.

Masked gunmen in a convoy of pick-ups drove through the Iraqi capital yesterday staging a show of force against Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi who has proposed a new dialogue with Washington.

The world is counting too heavily on soil and plants to soak up planet-ravaging carbon pollution, researchers cautioned Wednesday.

Three people died after they were stabbed on Wednesday night during an arbitration meeting over stalking a girl in Uttar Islampur of Munshiganj town.

Proper digital access is no game for children, it is a right that each and every country should guarantee, a UN watchdog said Wednesday.

The education ministry yesterday declared that in-person classes at secondary schools and colleges across the country would resume on May 23 after Eid-ul-Fitr.

The explosion that took three lives in Gaibandha’s Gobindaganj upazila on Wednesday was of an abandoned mortar shell of 1971, and no militancy link or sabotage plan was behind it, said police.

Rohingya parents are enduring an agonising wait as they hope to be reunited with their children who were separated in the massive fire that raged through four camps on Monday in Balukhali of Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhiya upazila.

Even though police have been saying that Hefajat leaders would file a case against Jhumon Das Apon, they are the ones who ended up suing the Hindu man for criticising a leader of the islamist outfit on Facebook.

Two Chhatra League leaders were sued under the Digital Security Act in Narayanganj for spreading “false information and rumour” on Facebook about Textiles and Jute Minister Golam Dastagir Gazi.

A Noakhali court yesterday farmed charges against 13 persons in a case filed over the gang-rape and torture of a woman in the district’s Begumganj upazila.

A devastating fire yesterday destroyed an 100-acre orchard of the Mro community who have been protesting the construction of a luxury hotel in Naitong area of Bandarban.

Work by British artist Sacha Jafri consisting of the world’s largest painting on canvas has been sold for $62 million at an auction in Dubai, organisers said on Tuesday.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in a press statement issued today called for a general strike throughout Bangladesh on March 27 against the army’s action in certain places in East Pakistan including Saidpur, Rangpur and Joydebpur.

Five kilometres away from the fire that erupted at Camp-8(E), Meer Kashem was watching the smoke billow on the horizon from his home in Balukhali’s West Para in Cox’s Bazar on Monday.

The government has declared several programmes to observe Genocide Day today and remember the brutalities of Pakistani occupation forces on unarmed Bangalees on the night of March 25, 1971.