Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday accused the BNP-Jamaat alliance of carrying out secret killings in the country.

In what appeared to be synchronised attacks on publishers of slain secularist writer-blogger Avijit Roy, unknown assailants hacked to death Faisal Arefin Dipan of Jagriti Prokashani and critically injured Shuddhoswar's Ahmedur Rashid Tutul yesterday. The body of 43-year-old Dipan was recovered from his second-floor office at Aziz Market in the capital.

Had police made any headway in the murder cases of four bloggers and done their jobs properly, yesterday's attack on publishers and

“I don't want any trial. I want good sense to prevail. Both the parties -- the one that's doing politics using secularism and the one that's doing politics using state religion -- are taking the country towards destruction. Let good sense prevail on both sides."

Different social, cultural, political, and student organisations, academicians, development partners and publishing houses yesterday condemned the attack on publishers and writers in the capital that left one killed and three injured.

Publishers Faisal Arefin Dipan and Ahmedur Rashid Tutul came under brutal militant attacks because they both promoted freethinking.

Four people, including three admission seekers, were jailed for two years each for their involvement in cheating in the undergraduate

Investigators said the cargo master was responsible for the sinking of the coal-carrying vessel in the Shela river inside the Sundarbans.

South Sudan rebels on Thursday released 18 Bangladeshi peacekeepers they had taken captive, but were still holding 12 UN contractors

A mobile court in Barisal sentenced a Chhatra League leader to one month's imprisonment for providing BCL activists with answers to

Pitaya, also known as dragon fruit, is being cultivated for the first time in the northern part of Bangladesh thanks to favourable growing

Authorities are still going ahead with fencing the plazas and sprawling lawns of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban on “security grounds”, despite professionals' criticism that it would only undermine the parliament building's architectural grandeur. Security experts want a concrete wall and iron bars on top of it saying it was necessary to stop any approaching vehicles breaching the security, according to various sources.

Md Tuhin Alam of Uttar Citki in Jhalakathi's Kathalia upazila is the kind of teacher both students and parents hope for.

BNP vice-chairman and former diplomat Shamsher M Chowdhury has resigned from the party citing health reasons. But party sources said he was “disappointed and upset” with the party high-ups, particularly with Tarique Rahman for his “undue” interference in party decisions in recent months.

Health Minister Mohammad Nasim yesterday lambasted Transparency International Bangladesh for its derogatory remarks on Parliament and asked the organisation to apologise before the nation.

Ariful Islam Sohel, owner of Ghoroa Hotel and Restaurant in Motijheel, had been furious with his 16-year-old staff Riad since the boy asked for a raise four months ago.

Another victim of Hossaini Dalan blast died at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday, raising the death toll from the bombings to two.

The Payra sea port in Patuakhali would be operational from December on a limited scale. The government plans to gradually turn it into a deep seaport. "Apart from a deep seaport in Matarbari, another one will be constructed in Payra," Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal told the press after an Ecnec meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

“How can a country run if lawmakers become law-breakers?"

The claim that the brutal militant group IS has carried out the bomb attack at the Huseni Dalan in Old Dhaka on the eve of the Tazia parade early last Saturday does not stand to reason. If one looks at the history of the emergence of the Islamic State or IS as it is better known, and its current operations in some regions in the Mid-east, it does not seem that the militant group was behind the attack.