“Amar Bhaier Rokte Rangano Ekushey February Ami Ki Bhulitey Pari…”

BNP yesterday vowed to “bring back democracy” in the country and free their party chief Khaleda Zia from jail.

At least four activists of BNP and its front organisations were killed and three others were injured in a road accident in Raghunathpur area on Mymensigh-Haluaghat road in Haluaghat upazila yesterday afternoon.

Relatives yesterday demanded immediate compensation for all the families of Chawkbazar fire victims, who lost their loved ones in the devastating inferno in Old Dhaka last year.

Bangladesh needs to invest an estimated extra $7.8 billion over the next decade to halve its road crash fatalities, says a new World Bank (WB) report.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Bangladesh yesterday launched the UN Bangla font and Bangla version of the Human Development Report 2019.

The government is working to register Bangla as one of the official languages of the United Nations (UN), said Information Minister Hasan Mahmud yesterday.

As scores of people placed floral wreaths on the pedestal of Central Shaheed Minar yesterday, they also thronged the nearby month-long Ekushey book fair, which commemorates the sacrifice made in 1952 through literature.

Watching bathing birds is an unexpected but sublime delight. Depending on the bird, you can see them frolic in abandon, splash water around, puff up their chest before dipping, dive and pop out in a stream of water, create sprays of water by shaking their wings and make all kinds of faces while doing it.

A seven-day book fair began at Hemayetpur in Savar on Thursday.

“Did you know, like me Abul Barkat was a graduate of Dhaka University?”

Commemorating cultural personality Hemchandra Bhattacharya, a souvenir book was launched at a programme in Sylhet on Thursday.

The Embassy of Bangladesh in Washington, DC has rejected the remarks on Bangladesh made by US Senator Chuck Grassley saying that they were farthest from the truth.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says in the global village one needs to learn other languages but the mother tongue must never be neglected.

A fourth-grade employee of Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University in Dinajpur allegedly made a derogatory remark against the vice chancellor (VC).

Around 3,000 RMG workers and staff members of two factories in Savar blocked a road for four hours in two phases yesterday, demanding arrears.

Members of a local gang beat up a man and looted his house in Savar, according to a complaint.

BNP will declare its mayoral candidate for Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) polls on February 24. Party insiders, however, said unlike Awami League, which chose a surprise candidate, their leadership will not make such a move.

A Dhaka court yesterday transferred the graft case filed against former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and 10 others to the Special Judge’s Court-4 of Dhaka for its trial.

The government yesterday announced the names of nine persons and an institution for the Independence Award for their outstanding contributions to the nation in various fields.