Two female students drowned after a boat capsized in the Pagla river in Nabinagar upazila yesterday morning.

Three days after Khaleda Zia's motorcade came under attack in Feni, two empty buses went up in flames at Mohipal in the district town just after the BNP chief's car crossed the area. According to the party leaders, the buses were set on fire while the convoy was passing through the place. Her car was some 30 feet away from the spot.

Uniform admission test for students' enrolment in public universities, overdue for seven years, is likely to be introduced partially next year.

Nine out of the 14 states and regions in Myanmar are contaminated with landmines, making it the world's third most

Bangladesh Bank approved the sudden changes in Social Islami Bank Limited (SIBL) only hours after the Shariah-based bank provided it with documents on Monday.

The Unesco has recognised the historic March 7 speech of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as a world documentary heritage.

The Rab yesterday arrested a Biman Bangladesh Airlines co-pilot, who according to the force, was planning to carry out a suicide attack on the residences of government high-ups with an aircraft.

Almost every Rohingya woman and girl, who fled the Rakhine State in Myanmar and took shelter in Bangladesh, is either a survivor of

Social Islami Bank Limited yesterday made dramatic changes to its board and top management in a move that can be viewed as strengthening the grip of Chittagong-based S Alam Group on the bank.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has called upon international organisations and communities as well as the Bangladesh government to step up efforts to ensure Rohingyas' safe return to Myanmar.

With severe head injuries, Mehedi Hasan was brought to Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday afternoon. On the 30km way from Munshiganj, his condition worsened, as blood continued to ooze out of his wounds from falling off a running truck.

Only four years after their inception, two private commercial banks are at a risk of becoming insolvent due to rampant corruption, posing a potential threat of a spill-over impact on the entire banking system, according to a Bangladesh Bank report.

It may cause Bangladesh fans distress, but the 83-run defeat in the second T20I after South Africa batsman David Miller's fastest T20I

In a span of five days, starting from 10:00pm on 10th July till 9:30pm on 15th July, Ijazul Miah received a total of 432 calls.

Chinese Ambassador in Dhaka yesterday said his country stands by Bangladesh and hopes there will soon be a peaceful solution to the Rohingya crisis.

The Awami League and the BNP are at loggerheads over Saturday's attack on Khaleda Zia's motorcade in Feni, with each party blaming the other for the incident.

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced 11 Freedom Party (now defunct) members to life imprisonment in a case filed in connection with the attack on Sheikh Hasina in August, 1989.

Scientists have long been considering the idea of engineering rice plant in a way that the global production of the cereal gets a dramatic boost. The idea came from the concern that the traditional research, which results in just one percent rise in the yearly yield, would not be enough to meet the ever-growing demand.

Myanmar's government began harvesting rice from farmland abandoned by Rohingya in northern Rakhine yesterday, officials said, a move likely to raise concerns about the prospect of return for more than half a million refugees who have fled communal violence in the area.

The convoy of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, heading towards Cox's Bazar for her visit to Rohingya refugee camps, came under attack at Mohammad Ali Bazar near Feni district town yesterday.