A Bangladeshi man was shot dead allegedly by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) near Roumari border in Kurigram early yesterday.

A teenage boy was stabbed to death and four others were injured in a clash at a local shrine in Netrakona’s Kendua upazila early yesterday.

The High Court yesterday issued a rule asking the government to explain in four weeks why the negligence of Gazipur’s Bangabandhu Safari Park authorities in ensuring the animals’ wellbeing should not be declared illegal.

Tashnuva Anan Shishir is the first Bangladeshi transgender woman to make a guest appearance at the prestigious PLITZS New York City Fashion Week.

Sitting for tests on three optional subjects and for fewer marks, HSC examinees of 2021 have achieved brilliant results as the pass rate and number of GPA-5 achievers in nine general education boards increased.

Metro rail authorities have sought another Tk 1,000 crore from the government to cover operation and maintenance cost.

Proshanta Kumar Halder, the former managing director of NRB Global Bank, had laundered about Tk 80 crore to Canada, found the Anti-Corruption Commission found in its probe.

The next national election in Bangladesh is going to be a “very important moment” for all, said British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson yesterday.

A parliamentary body yesterday came down heavily on Biman’s respective top officials for causing damage to the tune of Tk 1,000 crore to the interiors of eight aircraft while transporting cargo since March 2020.

Efforts to defuse the crisis in Ukraine via a frenzy of telephone diplomacy failed to ease tensions, with US President Joe Biden warning that Russia faces “swift and severe costs” if its troops carry out an invasion.

The outgoing Election Commission has conducted its duties successfully and tried to work with neutrality within the law, said Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda yesterday.

The pickup van driver, who ran over and killed five brothers in Cox’s Bazar, had no driving licence but had been driving several vehicles for the past two years.

The medical college hostel was the de facto control room of the language movement from February 21-24, 1952. Gaziul Haque, Shahidullah Kaiser, Oli Ahad, Kazi Golam Mahbub joined several meetings at the hostel.

Following the assurance of the education minister, protesting students of the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology suspended their oust-VC movement yesterday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to speak with his US and French counterparts yesterday after the United States warned that Moscow could invade Ukraine in days.

An oxygen cylinder exploded in an ambulance in Bagerhat’s Sharankhola upazila, injuring three people, on Friday night.

A man died yesterday after being attacked by a member candidate of the UP election to Rajanagar union of Chattogram’s Rangunia upazila and his supporters on February 2.

Today is the 45th death anniversary of eminent journalist Abdus Salam, former editor of the now-defunct English daily The Bangladesh Observer. On the occasion,

The newly-appointed US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter D Haas has said he looks forward to working with Dhaka to further advance the relationship between the two countries, he said at an interaction session with the officers of the Bangladesh Embassy in Washington DC on Friday.

Locals killed a rare palm civet that entered a locality in Habiganj’r Chunarughat upazila yesterday afternoon.