Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Salahuddin Ahmed on Saturday said that the national elections must be held within the stipulated time as no one had the strength to stop these elections.
A three-year-old boy was killed by his mentally unstable mother at Shantinagar in Khagrachari town on Saturday.
Joint forces on Saturday in a drive busted an arms manufacturing factory in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram.
A pilot signalling system was launched at seven crossings in Dhaka city on Saturday.
Academics, researchers and activists on Saturday said that institutional and legal reforms in the post-uprising era would not sustain unless the political parties institutionalise participatory democracy with youth engagement.
The government is going to retender the procurement of coal for the 1,320-megawatt thermal power plant in Patuakhali for the fifth occasion after the previous four bids in as many as four years went abortive.
Politicians, academics and professionals have called on the government to approach relevant international forums, if it fails to secure just share of water of the common rivers for Bangladesh through bilateral discussions.
Jahangirnagar University鈥檚 hall union elections slated for next month with 102 candidates already declared winners unopposed and 63 posts remaining vacant, according to the final candidate list published on Friday night.
Survivors and the families of the victims of enforced disappearances on Saturday urged the government to take necessary steps to bring an end to the culture of enforced disappearance.
India on Saturday pushed a couple into Bangladesh through a border point under Jaintapur upazila in Sylhet.
Environment advsier Syeda Rizwana Hasan on Saturday stressed the need for public awareness for sustainable development saying that citizens must adopt lifestyle changes and reduce overconsumption.
The protesting assistant teachers of government primary schools have threatened to go on hunger strike from September 26 if their demands for pay rise and promotion are not met.
Writers, teachers and activists said on Saturday that social change did not happen after the war of independence and that the fight for the change was still needed.
Vice-chancellor of Bangladesh Open University Professor ABM Obaidul Islam at a workshop on its campus in Gazipur on Saturday said that education would be more relevant and timely through simplification of educational services and improvement of quality.
The department of international business of Dhaka University held a seminar titled IB Career Insights and a farewell reception for postgraduate students at the Professor Abdullah Faruk Multipurpose Hall of DU faculty of business studies on Saturday.