Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders and workers to pursue education attentively to be able to lead the country.

By-election to Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayoral post will be held on February 26, said Election Commission officials.

The Awami League will hold rallies and bring out processions in Dhaka to mark “Victory Day for Democracy” today but its arch-rival the BNP was denied permission to hold any rallies in the capital to mark what it calls "Democracy Killing Day".

The Supreme Court yesterday accepted the disciplinary rules formulated by the government for the lower court judges.

Rabeya Bosri stopped looking for other jobs when she got an opportunity to teach at a new high school in her village in 2002.

The 450 Hindus who would be taken back by Myanmar in the first batch on January 22 know little about their repatriation, and officials concerned here are also in the dark.

It was around 1:30pm. Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon was briefing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on the activities of the national flag carrier Biman after the weekly cabinet meeting at the PMO yesterday.

The next parliamentary election will have 2.30 crore more voters than the election in 2008 had.

Four workers including a woman were killed in a landslide while extracting stones illegally in Jaflong of Gowainghat upazila yesterday.

Teachers who are on a hunger strike unto death rejected the education minister's assurances yesterday, announcing to continue their agitation until they get a specific timeframe for inclusion into the government's Monthly Pay Order (MPO) system.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday categorically said her party would contest the national elections, but the polls must be held under an interim non-partisan administration.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday expanded her cabinet, inducting three new faces into it and promoting a state minister to a full minister.

The cost of living in the capital hit a four-year high in 2017 due to spiralling prices of rice, vegetables, electricity, gas and other services as well as rising house rent, Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) said yesterday.

President Abdul Hamid yesterday asked the three state organs -- executive, legislature and judiciary -- to work in unison giving priority to the welfare of the country and its people.

At least 16 students of Dhaka Polytechnic Institute were injured last night when police opened fire to quell a clash between the students and locals of Begumbari slum in the capital.

There has been no reported diphtheria case in Bangladesh for the last 35 years. But the highly contagious disease, long forgotten in most part of the world due to increased vaccination, has made a sudden comeback.

For schoolchildren of Bangladesh, the first morning of 2018 came with the refreshing smell of new books.

The lower courts have been made subordinate to the executive by three "cardinal" rules, Dr Kamal Hossain and five other leading jurists of the country said yesterday.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has declared Shakib Al Hasan as the “runaway leader” in all-rounder rankings across all three formats in 2017.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is likely to induct at least three new faces into her council of ministers this evening.