Like any other day, 22 day labourers, of Baro Baldia of Chuadanga, were traveling to their workplace yesterday on a locally-made engine-run human haulier when it collided head-on with a speeding truck.

The nation celebrated the 47th Independence and National Day yesterday with a fresh vow to root out militancy from the country and build a happy, prosperous "Sonar Bangla" free from poverty, reports UNB.

Police inspector Monirul Islam left for his workplace in Sylhet on Saturday morning after attending a family function at his village home in Noakhali.

Investigators are looking into the conducts of the people who died and were injured in Saturday's twin blasts in Sylhet.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged those wasting their lives in suicide attacks to return to the right path and assured them of doing whatever necessary to ensure their livelihoods.

Two militants were killed during the army-led operation inside the terror den at Atia Mahal in Sylhet yesterday, as the raid to take on the terrorists holed up there entered its third day, making it one of the longest anti-terror operations. However, the operation codenamed “Operation Twilight” was far from over as more militants were believed to be still inside the five-storey apartment.

For long-time watchers of Bangladesh cricket, yesterday's first ODI against Sri Lanka must have seemed strangely familiar. Within the first 10 overs of the innings the outcome was more or less certain.

“They [Pakistani army] did not commit genocide on this day only, they did it every day throughout the nine-months.”

How often you get to know the heroics of female freedom fighters? Not much often.

Two powerful bombs went off at separate places near a militant den in Sylhet, killing five people, including two policemen, and injuring 40 others, even as joint forces were raiding the hideout for a second straight day yesterday. Police suspect the bombs were hurled by the cohorts of the militants holed up inside the den at Atia Mahal, a five-storey building in the city's Shibbari.

A man was killed when a bomb attached to his waist exploded near a police box at the Airport intersection in the capital yesterday, police said. No one was injured in the incident.

Law enforcers have cordoned off a five-storey building in Sylhet city where suspected militants are believed to have been holing up since yesterday morning with a huge cache of explosives.

Dateline: Meherpur, May 13, 2005- Some workers of the local municipality were digging drains to improve the sewerage of the town.

Everything changed as soon as twilight descended on Jagannath Hall of Dhaka University on March 25, 1971. A ghostly calm took hold

Rezia Begum along with her husband and three children was heading for Balikhan in Mymensingh to see her ailing father.

Fire safety measures were not adequate at the Bangladesh Bank headquarters in the capital's Motijheel, according to a top fire service official.

The Supreme Court yesterday cleared the way for the lower court concerned to resume the trial proceedings against BNP Chairperson

Bangladesh will write to the United Nations this month, seeking recognition of March 25 as Genocide Day, said Liberation War Affairs

The attacker who killed three people near parliament before being shot dead was British-born and was once investigated by MI5 intelligence officers over concerns about violent extremism, Prime Minister Theresa May said yesterday.

Criticising the World Bank for withdrawing fund from the Padma Bridge project, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said international agencies realised that no conspiracy against Bangladeshis would be successful.