Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday once again came down hard on some civil society members, comparing them with roadside dustbins.

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More than a hundred bank documents were forged by at least 20 importers to evade tax, causing a loss of over Tk 50 crore to the state exchequer.

Bangladesh Chhatra League has apparently assumed the role of law-enforcement agencies on the Dhaka University campus, as two recent incidents suggest. Usually, members of the proctorial team or police are entrusted with maintaining campus security, but the current administration seems to be counting more on the activists of the pro-Awami League student body for the job.

Chhatra League is working to ensure atmosphere conducive to education at the colleges and universities across the country, wrote its General Secretary SM Jakir Hossain in a newspaper article published on January 4, marking the student body's 70th founding anniversary.

Two education ministry staff, who were arrested on Sunday, had allegedly handed over secret state documents to the owner of Lakehead Grammar School to help reopen the institution after it was shut down for “patronising militancy”.

Human Rights Watch has demanded suspension of the bilateral plan between Bangladesh and Myanmar on return of the Rohingyas.

Bangladesh has been ranked 34th in the World Economic Forum's Inclusive Development Index's (IDI) list of emerging economies, ahead of South Asian competitors India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka but behind Nepal.

Bangladesh Chhatra League men yesterday attacked dozens of Dhaka University students who were demonstrating in front of the vice-chancellor's office to press home a four-point demand, including expulsion of some BCL leaders for “harassing” female students a few days ago.

The High Court yesterday sentenced Qazi Faruque Ahmed, the ousted chairman of Proshika, to one-month imprisonment in a civil prison for violating its 2009 directive.

It was yet another comprehensive win for the Tigers when they posted a 91-run victory with a bonus point against Zimbabwe in their

Dense fog disrupted flight operations at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka and ferry services on Paturia-Daulatdia and Shimulia-Kathalbari routes causing immense sufferings to the passengers yesterday.

Bangladesh have never won a tri-series, having hosted six such tournaments before the ongoing one and the only time the Tigers reached the final of a tri-nation was back in 2009, when the Tigers went on to lose the final to Sri Lanka.

Two education ministry officials, who were arrested on Sunday, had taken bribes to facilitate re-opening of an English medium school closed down on the allegations of patronising militancy, police say.

Although the first round of diphtheria vaccination is over in Cox's Bazar, new cases of infection among the Rohingyas and the locals continue to be reported in the district every day.

President Abdul Hamid is likely to be re-elected for a second term as the Awami League is set to nominate him as its candidate in the upcoming presidential election, say sources in the ruling party.

Shahana Chowdhury kept going back to the story of her 25-year-old son’s recent Hong Kong visit and repeatedly said how proud she was to have seen her autistic child along with 10 others win the best performance award in a cultural programme there. Her excitement was mixed with gratitude for Begum Nur Jahan Dipa, special educator at the Parents Forum for the Differently Able (PFDA)-Vocational Training Centre, who made it possible.

More time is needed to prepare the return of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh to northern Rakhine State in Myanmar, the UN refugee chief said yesterday, after a Bangladeshi official said the plan to begin it today had been delayed.

Sri Lanka could have taken the confidence with a commanding victory over Zimbabwe to register their first win of the tri-series, but

The fight against militancy remains challenging as ever as dozens of militants are getting freed every year from prisons that have no de-radicalisation programmes.