Buddha Purnima, the biggest religious festival of the Buddhist community, is being celebrated in the country today amid festivity and religious fervour.

A section of Dhaka dwellers demonstrated yesterday demanding safe Wasa water and resignation of its managing director Taqsem A Khan for what they said was his failure to carry out his responsibilities properly.

The UN said yesterday it has registered more than 250,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, providing many with their first ever identification cards and proof of their right to return to Myanmar in the future.

Traders in Dhaka's Kachukhet area get ‘death sentence’ over phone if they dare turn down the demand of the caller. Many listed criminals are demanding and taking extortion money from businessmen and traders in some parts of the city, police say.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged all to remain alert so that anti- liberation forces and war criminals cannot return to power.

A clinical Bangladesh team won the tri-nation ODI series in Ireland, their first major series, sans Shakib Al Hasan by registering a scintillating five-wicket win over West Indies by Duckworth Lewis method at The Village ground in Malahide, Dublin yesterday.

The Islamic Foundation has fixed this year’s Fitra at minimum Tk 70 and maximum Tk 1,980 per person. Mohammad Nizam Udin, assistant director of Islamic Foundation, yesterday announced the Fitra at a meeting chaired by Hafez Maulana Mohammad Mizanur Rahman, senior Pesh Imam of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque

The Tigers will be looking forward to a happy ending before they travel to England for the ICC World Cup when they face off against the West Indies in the tri-series final at The Village in Malahide today. The final will start from 3.45pm BST. Bangladesh put up a strong showing in the league stage

With uncertainty shrouding the Rohingya repatriation, crimes -- from petty thefts to drug peddling, abduction to murder -- have become a commonplace at the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar. Many of the Rohingyas, sheltered in Bangladesh, are now living in a state of panic. They blame unemployment in the camp and rivalry

Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) yesterday cancelled the licences of two more substandard food products, raising the number at nine. According to a BSTI statement, the products that lost their licences yesterday are: Pure Hathazari Chili Powder of SS Consumer Products (Chattogram)

The Supreme Court administration yesterday asked print and electronic media to refrain from reporting on ongoing cases at the court. Md Golam Rabbani, registrar of the High Court Division of the SC in the notice available on the SC website said, “It has been noticed recently that some electronic and print media

In a baffling move, the central bank yesterday extended a set of unprecedented facilities to defaulters with the view to giving them a fresh lifeline -- stoking fears of further deterioration of the banking sector’s financial health. As per the new policy, defaulters will be allowed to reschedule their classified loans

Frustrated after incurring huge losses, many farmers are demanding that the government procure paddy or rice directly from the growers instead of rice mill owners. “In this system, farmers have no choice but to sell their harvest to local rice mill owners. So, those mid-dlemen become the beneficiary

A month after boasting about its water quality, Dhaka Wasa yesterday revealed that its water is polluted in 57 city areas because of broken-down supply lines. The official water supplier in the city made the admission in a report submitted before the High Court.

Ehsan Hoque was lucky not to be blind for life, after his birth in 1964. Born with congenital cataracts, an optical disorder responsible for child blindness, he could survive with a limited eyesight. However, unlike most other victims of child blindness because of infections or nutritional deficiencies in pregnancies, his story was to unfold completely differently over the next five decades. His eyes in distress would eventually transform him into an angel parent of children in distress.

Europe has long been a promised land for Bangladeshi fortune seekers. With illusion further fuelled by human traffickers, many take risky journeys through the Mediterranean, knowing well it may turn fatal in the hazardous sea. But when they are held hostage by human traffickers or other criminal gangs in Libya, a transit point en route to Europe, they realise

Supreme Court lawyer Imtiaz Mahmood was sent to jail by a Dhaka court yesterday, hours after police arrested him in a case filed under section 57 of the ICT Act about two years ago over his Facebook posts.

A ship-breaking worker died and five others were critically burnt in an explosion at the engine room of a ship in Chattogram’s Sitakunda yesterday morning. The incident took place at Mahinur Ship Recycling yard in Baro Awalia area around 8:00am.

A clinical Bangladesh team continued their winning run in the ongoing tri-nation ODI series, registering a comfortable six-wicket win over Ireland in a dead rubber at the Clontarf Cricket Club ground yesterday.

Alamin Miah is one of those who came back from the jaws of death and lived to tell the tale after a boat carrying migrants capsized in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Tunisia, last Friday night.