Locals on Wednesday morning staged demonstrations and blocked several points of the busy Cumilla-Sylhet Highway, demanding its immediate repairs and long-awaited plan to upgrade the route into a four-lane one...
Lebanese state media said US envoy Tom Barrack cut short a visit to the south on Wednesday, amid protests in two planned stops against US pressure to disarm Hezbollah...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party-backed teachers and students of Rajshahi University staged a demonstration on Sunday night, protesting against alleged irregularities in the university鈥檚 teacher recruitment process...
The National Book Centre on Thursday awarded 49 students prizes for winning an essay competition on the July uprising...
The three-day Bangla Med Expo 2025 was inaugurated on Thursday at the International Convention City Bashundhara of the capital, positioning itself as one of South Asia鈥檚 leading platforms for showcasing the latest medical equipment and healthcare innovations...
A doctor on Wednesday testified before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that plainclothes police, identifying themselves as Detective Branch officers, asked the doctors and medical staff not to treat injured student protesters during the July 2024 uprising...
The father of As Sabur, one of six protesters who were shot and then burnt to death together, testified before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Sunday...
Serbia鈥檚 president on Sunday vowed a 鈥榮trong鈥� response to anti-government protests, after nearly a week of violent clashes involving his supporters, police and demonstrators across the country...
Demonstrators took to the streets across Israel Sunday calling for an end to the war in Gaza and a deal to release hostages still held by militants, as the military prepares a new offensive...
Leaders of Palestine Solidarity Committee, Bangladesh on Saturday protested against Israel鈥檚 recent decision to occupy Gaza and called on an immediate end to aggression and mass killings in Palestine.聽..
Law adviser Asif Nazrul on Saturday urged the doctors not to prescribe unnecessary medical tests or force patients to buy medicines of specific companies, calling it a form of 鈥榯orture鈥�, particularly targeting poor patients...
Some students and people threw shoes at the photos of several celebrities on Saturday, labelling them as 鈥榗ultural fascists鈥� for paying tributes to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in their social media posts on his anniversary of death...
Hundreds demonstrated in Syria鈥檚 Sweida on Saturday, denouncing last month鈥檚 sectarian violence and calling for the right to self-determination for the Druze-majority province, an AFP correspondent reported...
Workers and employees of the Chittagong Urea Fertiliser Company Limited at Anwara upazila in Chattogram staged a protest rally on Thursday, demanding an end to disparity in pay structure...
Authorities at 15 garment factories at Ashulia of Savar on Thursday declared a day off for the workers after protests erupted at a nearby factory to demand payment of arrear wages, said an Industrial Police official...
Clashes between rival groups of protesters in Serbia left dozens injured overnight, police said Thursday, as months of anti-government demonstrations boiled over into street violence for a second night...
Three Anti-Corruption Commission officials on Wednesday testified as plaintiffs against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, Rehana鈥檚 daughters Tulip Siddiq and Azmina Siddiq and son Radwan Mujib Siddiq and others in three cases over corruption in Purbachal plot scam...
The Editors鈥� Council on Wednesday strongly protested at 鈥榰nwarranted鈥� and 鈥榮weeping鈥� allegations made against the media at a conference organised by Jatiya Jubashakti, the youth front of the National Citizen Party...
Australia cricket chief Todd Greenberg on Wednesday said a slimmer Test calendar could benefit smaller nations because the five-day game was better 鈥榳here it means something鈥�.
The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association urged its members to submit details of financial losses caused by the 鈥榗omplete shutdown鈥� programme observed by employees of the customs, VAT, and tax departments...
President Donald Trump demanded a massive $1 billion fine from the prestigious University of California system on Friday as the administration pushed its claims of anti-Semitism in UCLA鈥檚 response to 2024 student protests related to Gaza...
The export of readymade garments experienced negative growth in the April-June quarter of the past financial year 2024-25, compared to the preceding quarter of January-March in FY25, primarily due to extended protests by the National Board of Revenue officials and tariff concerns...
England paceman Chris Woakes is considering rehabilitation rather than surgery on his dislocated shoulder in a last-ditch bid to make himself available for the upcoming Ashes tour of Australia.
New Zealand completed a crushing win by an innings and 359 runs on the third day of the second Test against Zimbabwe at Queens Sports Club on Saturday.
Dhaka University students staged demonstrations on early Saturday demanding ban on politics in dormitories...
Social activists, students and local residents held a protest rally in Rajshahi city on Thursday, demanding urgent action from the authorities after a student of Rajshahi College was seriously injured by falling into an uncovered manhole near the college...
I MOSTLY head home from the office and back to the office from home, which has been a routine for long but for a few erratic days when I have ventured out in other directions, mostly before and after work hours. But it gradually became challenging, risky too, to shuttle between the office and home, let alone darting out here and there even when the need was pressing as violence broke out with student protests...
Brendan Taylor top-scored with 44 in his first Test match after a lengthy ban but could not prevent Zimbabwe from collapsing to 125 all out on the first day of the second Test against New Zealand on Thursday.
Two key witnesses on Wednesday testified before the International Crimes Tribunal-1, implicating the police, Begum Rokeya University officials, and Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders in the killing of student protester Abu Sayeed during the July 2024 anti-discrimination movement...
IT WAS quite challenging to have covered the uprising events, each bloody day especially after July 16, when six of the protesters were left dead, with a handful of reporters. It was a small group, composed of, alphabetically ordered, Ahammad Foyez who on December 5, 2024 was appointed to the press wing of the chief adviser to the interim government as...