Many teachers and students still do not have adequate freedom on campuses, though protecting their freedom is the spirit of the country’s independence, speakers at a citizens’ rally said yesterday.

Rapid Action Battalion yesterday recovered firearm-making materials, a locally-made firearm and two rounds of bullets from a hut adjacent to the residence of Saroatoli union parishad chairman under Boalkhali upazila.

Today is the ninth death anniversary of Ambia Khatun Majumder, mother of Crystal Insurance Company Limited Chairman, Abdullah Al-Mahmud (Mahin).

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has arrested a couple with 12,000 yaba pills, after searching a private car on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj.

Today is the 48th death anniversary of martyred intellectual Dr Fazle Rabbee.

Police seek a five-day remand for Editor Abul Asad of the Bangla Daily Sangram in a case filed under Digital Security Act, a day after he was taken to police’s safe custody following an attack on his office.

The autopsy found no sign of rape on the body of Stamford University student Rubaiyat Sharmin Rumpa, a doctor of the Dhaka Medical College Hospital says.

Expressing concern over the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in India’s Assam, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says NRC is a threat to Bangladesh's independence and sovereignty.

Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says that legal action should be taken against ‘Daily Sangram’ for describing executed war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Molla as "martyr".

Workers of nine state-run jute mills in Khulna industrial belt postpone their indefinite hunger strike for three days following a meeting with State Minister for Labour and Employment Begum Munnujan Sufian last night.

Another victim, who was severely burnt in Wednesday’s factory fire in Keraniganj, dies at Sheikh Hasina National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute in Dhaka, raising the death toll to 14.

Martyred Intellectuals Day is being observed to commemorate the intellectuals killed by Pakistan occupation forces and their local collaborators just before the end of the Liberation War.

Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) will construct a monument in memory of the seven Japanese citizens killed in the militant attack at Holey Artisan Bakery on July 1, 2016, as they were involved with a metro rail project.

The government must take proper steps to punish those responsible for the deadly fire at a plastic factory in Keraniganj on December 12 that has so far claimed 13 lives, demanded members of Bangladesh Trade Union Centre (BTUC) yesterday.

Bangladesh Hindu Bouddha Christian Oikya Parishad -- an organisation for religious minority communities -- yesterday expressed concern over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, passed by the Indian government recently.

I had been out since early morning cruising the Padma river and was returning to Rajshahi town. After turning a bend, I noticed an airborne black silhouette against the white sand of a char to my left.

The thought of driving an hour and a half in a city beleaguered by unending traffic congestion to do anything is stress-inducing. Munia and her friends -- all university students -- drove all the way from Mirpur-10 to Dhaka Airport Railway Station just to have some tea.

Senior journalist Anwar Alam Fatik passed away at his home in Rajshahi’s Baliapukur area on Thursday night.

An elderly man was killed in an accident on Thakurgaon-Baliadangi road in Thakurgaon on Thursday night as a truck hit him while he was crossing the road.

The British Council’s Libraries Unlimited Programme and Department of Public Libraries recently organised a workshop titled “Policy Workshop on the Formulation of a National Policy for Public Libraries” at the Westin Hotel Dhaka.