ON AUGUST 26, the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power, and Port commemorated the lives lost in the movement against an open-pit coal mine in Phulbari, Dinajpur, and expressed their sheer frustration at successive governments鈥� indifference towards the full implementation of the Phulbari Agreement...
Bangladesh Meteorological Department has forecast rain or thundershowers in all divisions including Dhaka in 24 hours commencing 9:00am on Monday...
The 18th anniversary of Phulbari Tragedy Day will be observed today with the demand of full implementation of the Phulbari agreement signed between the government and the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports...
Agricultural scientist and biotechnologist Md Abdullah Yousuf Akhond has been appointed as new director general of Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, said a press release on Tuesday...
Barishal University has cancelled the studentship of two Bangladesh Chhatra League activists and suspended another activist on allegation of torturing a student. ...
An activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League, student wing of the immediate past ruling party Awami League, was beaten to death allegedly for not paying the extortion money demanded from him in Gournadi upazila of Barishal....
Bangladesh Army has rescued an elderly woman who was locked in a room for three months by her own children in Brahmanbaria....
Four people, including two students, were beaten to death in two separate incidents in Jatrabari and Wari areas in the capital on Wednesday...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party organising secretary Advocate Bilkis Jahan Shireen has been removed from her organisational post.
The cash of about taka 7 lakh and a mobile phone looted from the house of Awami League leader and former Barishal mayor Serniabat Sadiq Abdullah was handed over to police...
With its sleek interior and freshly ground coffee, the cafe run by Belarusian exile Sasha Avdevich may at first glance seem like yet another trendy spot in Warsaw...
THE reported death toll in Gaza is way too low by every imaginable metric. We need to be stressing this 鈥� all the more so when Israel鈥檚 apologists are vigorously engaged in a disinformation campaign to suggest that the figures are inflated...
Houses of at least four lawmakers came under attack in Barishal, Lakshmipur and Sirajganj on Sunday during the student protests with their one-point demand for the resignation of the government...
Twelve students of Barishal University who gathered on the campus to participate in a programme titled 鈥楻emembering Our Heroes鈥� were taken into custody on Thursday, the police said.
ATTACKS by the Chhatra League, the student wing of the ruling Awami League, on protesting students again at Barishal University on July 29 are deplorable. The attacks left at least 15 injured, nine of whom had to be sent to hospital. It was Chhatra League attacks on protesters on July 15 that forced a peaceful student movement into violence...
At least 15 students were injured in an alleged attack by Bangladesh Chhatra League activists at Barishal University.
Four members of a family were found dead in their house at Bijoypara in Nabinagar upazila of Brahmanbaria on Sunday, said police.
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday filed a case against MM Jamil Ahmed, deputy general manager of the Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation in Barishal, on charges of obtaining a job as son of a freedom fighter though his father was not a freedom fighter...
Three people were killed in a head-on collision between two motorcycles in Charpara area of Jindapur of Nabinagar Upazila of Brahmanbaria at about 7:30pm on Wednesday...
Unknown attackers set fire to Hanif Flyover toll plaza in Dhaka's Jatrabari on Wednesday night.
Detective Branch of the Barishal Metropolitan Police on Thursday arrested two members of a fake currency gang along with fake foreign currency and motorcycle at a residential hotel in the city...
Two workers died when a chunk of mud collapsed on them while excavating a pond with a dredger at Bishutara village of Sarail upazila in Brahmanbaria early Thursday...
Thousands of students in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country on Thursday continued their street protests by blocking the capital鈥檚 Shahbagh intersection and major highways...
Students of Barisal University blocked the Dhaka-Barisal Highway for an hour on Tuesday protesting against the restoration of the quota system in government jobs....
Two prisoners from Cumilla central jail and Barishal central jail died while undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Sunday...
Two siblings were killed and another person injured in a road accident on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Ashuganj upazila of Brahmanbaria district on Monday morning....
Two people were killed and five others injured in a road accident on the Dhaka-Barishal highway at Kashipur in Barishal city on Sunday....
A Bangladesh Chhatra League activist was shot to death by opponents during the joyous procession of the winning candidate in Brahmanbaria sadar upazila election...
At least seven people were killed and three others injured in road accidents in Brahmanbaria, Gazipur, Magura, and Dhaka districts between Thursday night and Friday...