Enthusiastic publishers -- with catalogues of their new titles -- are all set to welcome bookworms at the Amar Ekushey Grantha Mela 2020, as the book fair was seen warming up to visitors in its second day yesterday.

Rapid Action Battalion yesterday arrested two people with 40,000 yaba in Shikalbaha of Chattogram.

State Minister for Water Resources Zahid Faruque tells parliament that the government has taken an initiative to formulate a masterplan for curbing river pollution across the country.

The High Court has stayed the results of government primary school teacher recruitment tests in eight more districts for six months over charges of violating result publishing rules.

Rights group Article 19 expresses grave concerns over attacks on journalists during Saturday’s Dhaka city polls.

A man was arrested last night for raping a Secondary School Certificate examinee in Tarakanda upazila of Mymensingh, police say.

Yet another Baul artist has been sued under the Digital Security Act for making “derogatory comments” about Islam and hurting people’s sentiment.

Around 800 people become homeless as 270 shanties are burnt in a fire at a slum at West Madarbari in the port city.

The government has been ordered by the High Court (HC) to remove all illegal structures built on encroached land of Mayur river in Khulna within the next two months.

The High Court has refused to grant bail to four bodyguards of GK Shamim, a top government-listed contractor, in a money laundering case.

A crude bomb exploded near the Madhur Canteen at the campus of University of Dhaka this morning.

Grameenphone CEO Yasir Azman says that the mobile network operator is going to face a major crisis within the next a couple of weeks if BTRC does not allow the company to sell any new SIM cards or resell the numbers that have been blocked for 15 months.

The body of a four-year-old boy, who drowned in Manda canal of Dhaka’s Mugda area yesterday, is recovered.

The High Court has issued a rule asking the government to explain within six weeks, why they should not be directed to prohibit the gender detection of unborn babies, in order to ensure protection of the unborn and pregnant mothers.

A total of 271 shanties are gutted as a fire broke out at a slum in Chattogram city. The fire originated at the slum in Anu Majhir Ghat area around 5:10am.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government has given utmost importance to vocational education as the world needs skilled manpower for the upcoming fourth industrial revolution.

Bangladesh is set to hold talks with one of its major labour receiving countries Qatar today and tomorrow with a hope to see rise in hire of Bangladeshi migrant workers by the Gulf country.

It is shameful and puzzling that border killings have increased in recent times, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said yesterday.

Sixty-three students are set to receive gold medals for academic performance at the second convocation of Patuakhali University of Science and Technology (PSTU), to be held on February 5.

At least 15 students were hurt in a clash between students of two departments at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University in Gopalganj yesterday.