When Bangladesh take on Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup opener in Dubai today, they will deal with the familiar and the unfamiliar in a quest to progress to the second round of a tournament that has been structured in a brand new format.

Road safety campaigner Mozammel Hoque Chowdhury was freed from jail last night, hours after a Dhaka court rejected a police petition seeking to show him arrested in a case filed under Explosive Substances Act.

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said that, with hindsight, her government could have better handled the situation in Rakhine state that led to the forced displacement of more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims.

The government has raised the minimum monthly wage for 4.4 million garment workers by around 51 percent to Tk 8,000 from the existing Tk 5,300 with effect from December.

The much-talked about proposed Road Transport Act-2018 was placed in parliament last night, amid criticism over the “lenient” nature of the punishment over deaths caused by reckless driving.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday stressed the need for improving the quality of education and healthcare services at private medical colleges.

One is an 85-year-old paralysed man who cannot move out of his bed by himself. Another left the country for Malaysia in February and is still there. Two others are hajj pilgrims -- one of them returned home just yesterday while the other is still to come back.

The BNP yesterday told the UN that it wants the global body to play an effective role to help hold the upcoming parliamentary elections in Bangladesh in a free and fair manner.

Even after the recent vigorous students' movement for road safety, people are still not conscious, said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in parliament yesterday.

Bad loans at five state-owned banks totalled Tk 56,283 crore as of June, Finance Minister AMA Muhith told parliament yesterday.

Vice-chancellors of the country's public universities yesterday painted a grim picture of their teachers' recruitment and promotion process, saying different irregularities take place during the procedures as there is no uniform set of guidelines.

Four months into her pregnancy, Tahmina, 35, found herself under constant stress as she tried to meet the production quota in the RMG factory in Tejgaon where she had been working for the last four years.

Locals have started demonstrating for government action to tackle erosion by the Padma in Shariatpur's Naria upazila.

Implicated in three “false cases” and tired of police harassment, Ahad Khalifa was desperately looking for a break.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia did not appear before a special court at Old Dhaka Central Jail yesterday in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case.

Seven-time champions India set up a final clash against one-time champions Maldives in the SAFF Suzuki Cup following comfortable victories in their respective semifinals at the Bangabandhu National Stadium yesterday.

Internationally acclaimed photographer Shahidul Alam has once again been denied bail in a case filed for “spreading propaganda against the government”.

An election-time government is likely to be formed in mid-October to oversee the eleventh parliamentary polls due in late December.

At least seven people, including three women, were killed, and 10 others injured, in a road accident on the Chittagong-Cox's Bazar highway in Chakoria upazila of the district yesterday.

A parliamentary body yesterday finalised its report on the much-debated Digital Security Bill without addressing some concerns of journalists and media owners.