Heathrow airport was completely shut down on Friday after a power outage due to a fire at a London electricity substation, causing travel chaos for passengers around the world and the cancellation or diversion of hundreds of flights from Europe鈥檚 busiest air hub....
The National Consensus Commission will hold talks with Khelafat Majlish and Bangladesh Labour Party on Saturday as part of its ongoing dialogue with political parties to build a national consensus on the reform initiatives taken by the interim government....
Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairman Tarique Rahman on Friday urged the interim government not to take any step that would facilitate the rehabilitation of fleeing autocrats in the country....
A young man was hacked to death in Mirpur鈥檚 Pallabi area in the capital Dhaka Friday evening allegedly over previous enmity....
India鈥檚 Border Security Force handed over two Bangladeshi nationals to Border Guard Bangladesh following a flag meeting at Maheshpur border in Jhenaidah Friday morning....
Today is the fifth anniversary of death of professor emeritus Sultana Sarawatara Zaman who died on March 22, 2020....
Protests against Israeli attacks on Palestine continued across the country on Friday as political parties and student groups demanded action against the violence....
Bangladesh Road Transport Authority and Dhaka Metropolitan Police jointly conducted a drive against unfit vehicles in the city on Friday....
Vice-chancellor of Bangladesh Open University ABM Obaidul Islam attended a three-day international conference titled Recent Trends in Science, Technology and Innovation concluded in Pokhara, Nepal on Friday....
Police recovered the decomposed bodies of two persons from a pond in Raiganj upazila of Sirajganj, five days after they went missing....
World University of Bangladesh鈥檚 two students have been selected to participate in the 鈥楴ot-A-Boring Competition鈥� organised by Elon Musk鈥檚 The Boring Company in Bastrop, Texas in the United States....
A Chattogram court on Friday ordered to send Md Sharif Mahmud, ex-public relation officer of the home ministry to jail after rejecting his bail petition....
Garment labour leaders at a protest rally in Dhaka on Friday demanded the wages and the festival allowance of workers of Style Graft Garment in Gazipur by March 23....
A five-day painting workshop titled Swadeshnama is under way at the National Art Gallery at聽 Shilpakala Academy in Dhaka to mark International Women鈥檚 Day....
Speakers, including cultural activists, said on Friday that repression of women and destruction of the environment continued as before....
People from various strata have protested for months against the Tejgaon鈥揚lassey Crossing segment of the Dhaka Elevated Expressway that destroys Panthakunja and part of Hatirjheel, but the government remains resolute about the project....
Police in separate raids on Friday arrested four members of a fraudulent 鈥榤agnetic coin鈥� gang along with Tk 19.50 lakh in cash in Dhaka鈥檚 different areas under Adabar police station....
The Staff Association of Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology organised an iftar party and general meeting at the Central Auditorium of CUET in Chattogram on Thursday....
At least 1,659 industrial units in a recent count have been found discharging untreated wastewater into canals, rivers and other open waterbodies, aggravating the condition of the already heavily polluted waterbodies....
Today is the 20th anniversary of death of Syeda Afifa Fatima, a resident of Khan Bahadur Garden, Shantibagh in Dhaka....
Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bengali New Year, will be celebrated this year at the national level ensuring the participation of all ethnic communities in the country, including Chakma, Marma, Tripura, Manipuri, and Garo....
Kishoreganj District and Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protishtan advanced to the final of the Women鈥檚 Development Cup Hockey after securing victories in the semi-finals at the Maulana Bhashani National Hockey Stadium on Friday....
Bangladesh runner Jahir Rayhan faced a disappointing exit from the World Athletics Indoor Championships 2025, as he finished last in heat three of the men鈥檚 400-meter event in Nanjing, China on Friday....
The Bangladesh national women鈥檚 team will begin their training camp today at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium ahead of the World Cup Qualifier, starting on April 9 in Lahore, Pakistan.聽...
KAZI Mohammad Idris is a notable name in the journalism and literature of Bangladesh. He was born on November 11, 1906, in Munshipara, Rangpur city, and died on March 22, 1975, in Dhaka. His journalism deeply reflected political awareness, secular outlook, and humanitarian ideals....
The recent four-day visit of United Nations secretary-general Ant贸nio Guterres to Bangladesh carries immense diplomatic and humanitarian significance. At a time of internal transition and complex regional dynamics, Guterres鈥� presence......
IMAGINE you are in a grade one or two classroom of a government primary school in a hilly district where children from Bengali, Chakma, Marma and Tripura communities are actively engaged in learning under the guidance of a teacher from......
EARLIER this month I wrote that Benjamin Netanyahu鈥檚 resumption of the war of genocide in Gaza was never a matter of 鈥榠f鈥�, but 鈥榳hen.鈥� The early morning massacres of over 1000 injured or murdered civilians on March 18 and 19 was described......
SAVING rivers is, no doubt, an uphill task. In a situation, where rivers are encroached on, choked and strangled in all the manners that an absence of concrete plans to save the rivers allow, with all quarters, even......
AS THE government discusses the reform strategy for the health sector, it should take into account findings of the Bureau of Statistics survey on public health services that reflect people鈥檚 demands and expectations. The survey report......