As Bangladesh completes its 49th year of being a sovereign country, there still remains a gap in preserving the memories of many who were martyred during the war.

The government is set to distribute stipend and allowances for accessories among 1.3 crore primary school students through the postal department’s digital financial service Nagad.

The Start Fund Bangladesh (SFB) has allocated around Tk 5.7 crore to communities affected by waterlogging in Satkhira and Khulna, a press release said.

In order to ensure women’s empowerment, child marriage needs to be eliminated, State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Fazilatunnesa Indira said at a webinar held on Thursday.

Hefazat-e Islam Secretary General Nur Hossain Kasemi died yesterday at a hospital in Dhaka, at the age of 75.

A Dhaka court today rejected a bail petition of Monir Hossain, known as "Golden Monir", in a case filed under the Narcotics Control Act.

Considering the narrow roads and long distances, mini fire service stations will be built at all the wards of Dhaka North City Corporation, LGRD minister Md Tazul Islam said today.

The High Court today stayed for six months the trial proceedings against Prothom Alo Editor and Publisher Matiur Rahman in a case filed over the death of Dhaka Residential Model College student Naimul Abrar Rahat.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday inaugurated the boring work of the second tube of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel under the Karnaphuli River in the port city.

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader yesterday urged the government to inform people about the steps it has taken to ensure coronavirus vaccine for them.

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said BNP should be tried for crimes against humanity, as the party has been committing such crimes continuously since its inception.

The government will hand over Dhaka city’s drainage system from Wasa to the city corporations by January next year, Local Government and Rural Development Minister Tajul Islam said yesterday.

Accusing Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader of regularly spreading a ‘false’ campaign against their party, BNP leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi yesterday said the ruling party leader has forgotten to speak the truth.

In a bid to contain coronavirus in the country, a mobile handwashing campaign was launched in Dhaka yesterday, with an aim to reach low-income group in different parts of the city.

President Abdul Hamid yesterday emphasised the importance of innovation instead of imitation to reach benefits of “Digital Bangladesh” to people.

No one is too young to make a difference. This statement gets passed around a lot, but seldom do we come across someone who live their life as a genuine example of it.

After weeks of lull in terms of new releases, movie theatres across the city were set abuzz by two new releases, that too on the same day.

An eight-year-old was allegedly raped by a 52-year-old man at a village in Jhikargachha upazila of Jashore on Friday.

A man was killed in a landslide while he was allegedly cutting a hill in Sadar upazila of Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

The followers of local Awami League leader Bokul Sheikh, who was hacked to death in Pabna on Friday, torched four houses, ransacked several shops and staged demonstrations in the district town yesterday, protesting the murder.