The district unit of Awami League (AL) and its associate organisations yesterday enforced roads and waterways blockade in the district for an indefinite period demanding steps to rescue the party leader, who was abducted by an armed gang from Sadar upazila on Monday night.

Students and socio-cultural activists at a human chain in Comilla yesterday demanded immediate arrest and speedy trial of the killers of Victoria College student Sohagi Jahan Tonu.

Over 100 people of 18 families in Kuakata reserve forest area have been listed as 'Myanmar citizens' although they are living in the area for decades and they have national identity (NID) cards as Bangladeshi citizens.

Ruling party lawmaker Dhirendra Devnath Shambhu urges the prime minister and her cabinet to draw their attention to stop attacks on minorities.

The president of the upazila unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) beat up a retired army officer on Harirampur

Over 20,000 people of six villages under Amtali upazila of Barguna district are suffering as the bridge over the

Jackfruit farmers in Jhenidah are worried as fungal infection has affected fruits on the trees.

An accused in a case filed over shooting a pregnant mother in Magura surrenders before a local court.

An NGO worker was killed by lightning at Khajra union under Assasuni upazila of the district on Sunday. The deceased, Maloti Rajbansi,

At least 50 people were injured in a clash over land dispute between the people of two neighbouring villages in Habiganj Sadar upazila yesterday.

Over a month into the killing of Nikhil Joardar of Gopalpur upazila in the district, law enforcers are yet to arrest any of the killers of the tailor.

Over 3,200 people are detained countrywide on the third day of the anti-militancy crackdown. Among them only 34 were suspected militants.

A girl was saved from child marriage following timely intervention of the local administration at Telkhupi village in Gabtoli upazila of the

A woman is arrested from Dhaka's Badda over the murder of a Christian trader Sunil Gomez in Natore. People of Christian community in Baraigram upazila also stag demonstration protesting the killing of the grocer.

Four people are killed in a devastating storm that ravaged Koyra and Bhatiaghata upazilas of Khulna.

Two women were killed and over 100 houses damaged as storms lashed three upazilas of Patuakhali and Pirojpur districts yesterday

A Hindu priest is rescued unhurt in Rangpur within 24 hours after he went missing.

Two women are killed when their tin-shed houses collapsed on them during a storm that lashed different upazilas of Patuakhali. The storm has uprooted many electric poles, plunging Dhumki, Golachipa, Dasmina and Baufal upazilas into darkness.

Condemned war crimes convict Jamaat leader Mir Quasem Ali will file a petition with the Supreme Court seeking a review of its verdict upholding his death penalty for crimes against humanity during the Liberation War, says Quasem’s counsel Matiur Rahman Akanda.

There are many faces of magic in literature. Prospero's art, Keats's 'charm'd magic casements,' the satirical sylphs in Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock,' Yeats's occultism are some of the faces of magic that we meet in the syllabuses of the English departments. We are comfortable in dealing with magic as a component of fantasy fiction—a long tradition that includes Homer and Apuleius, the Holy Grail, The Faerie Queene. We are happy to see the re-emergence of magic in the works of contemporary author such as J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Ursula K. Le Guin, J.K. Rowling and others.