Deputy Education Minister Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury yesterday proposed for a cooperation framework on education between Bangladesh and India as part of a greater goal of building a knowledge-based and democratic society.

Following criticism, the Election Commission has backtracked from its proposal to give Bangla names to local government bodies and the positions within them by amending the relevant law.

A 19-year-old boy, who was arrested over a case filed following a clash, has escaped from Dhaka Medical College Hospital while receiving treatment there.

Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Riva Ganguly Das today described Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as the founder of modern Bangladesh and one of the most influential and courageous leaders of the 20th century.

The driver of a microbus has given a confessional statement in the case filed over the hit-and-run accident that left mountaineer Reshma Nahar Ratna dead in Dhaka on August 7.

A college student has been stabbed by unknown attackers in Old Dhaka’s Lalbagh area.

Rab claimed to have arrested an alleged member of banned militant group Ansar al Islam from Dhaka’s Kalyanpur area earlier today.

A woman was gang raped by five people after the perpetrators confined her husband inside a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Chattogram’s Bayezid area earlier today.

A youth was stabbed to death by unknown assailants in Dhaka’s Bakshibazar area this afternoon.

The government is constructing 139 polders in the coastal belt to protect the areas from tidal surges and floods, State Minister for Water Resources Zaheed Farooque said yesterday.

Seven people were killed in three road accidents in Sylhet, Netrakona and Barguna districts yesterday

Authorities of Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj detained a prisoner yesterday afternoon, 10 hours after he escaped from Mitford Hospital where he had been receiving treatment.

Women employed in formal sectors of the country experience a shocking extent of sexual harassment in the workplace, and this trend continued even during the pandemic. In most cases, the victims are denied any form of justice.

The education ministry yesterday urged all not to pay heed to any rumour about HSC and equivalent examinations.

BNP yesterday alleged that the current government has made enforced disappearance as its main political strategy to continue its “despotic” rule by eliminating its opponents.

Parvez Hossain gave Tk 500 to his wife Farzeena Akhter before leaving home seven years ago. That was all she was left with.

Sumi Rani Das never forgets to wear her sakha (bangles) and sindoor (vermillion).

Nearly a day and a half after she was hit by a stray bullet in front of her own house, 15-year-old Lamia was lying in a bed at Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) in unbearable anguish last night, the piece of metal still lodged deep inside her body.

Authorities of Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj detained a prisoner this afternoon, 10 hours after he escaped from Mitford Hospital where he had been receiving treatment.

Barishal has been experiencing unprecedented waterlogging for over a week due to tidal surge from the river Kirtankhola, causing immense suffering to city-dwellers.