Drissho Madhyam Shilpi Shomaj organised a day-long event yesterday titled “Koilza Kapano 36 Din”, paying respect to the student-led uprising in Bangladesh that unfolded a year ago. The event took place at the Bangladesh National Museum.
A memorial programme was held yesterday morning at Milestone School and College in Diabari, Uttara, seeking eternal peace for those who died in the recent fighter jet crash and a speedy recovery for the injured.
Public universities continue to operate like poorly managed state institutions, where old authoritarian practices persist under new names, said University Teachers Network at a seminar yesterday.
BNP senior leader Abdul Moyeen Khan yesterday warned that if the transition to democracy is delayed any further, the people will rise up again.
Police have submitted the first charge sheet in a murder case linked to last year’s July uprising in Chattogram.
Bangladesh is set to sign a landmark labour agreement with Saudi Arabia within the next two to three weeks, Adviser Asif Nazrul said yesterday.
A man was beaten to death by some members of security forces in the capital’s Khilgaon Sipahibagh area yesterday, family members alleged.
A 14-year-old girl and her family fled their home on Cox’s Bazar’s Saint Martin’s Island on Friday, after local political figures, allegedly of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami, offered Tk 1 lakh to silence them over the rape of the teenager.
Commerce Adviser Sk Bashir Uddin has said the purchase of 25 Boeing aircraft from the US was not raised in the trade talks in Washington DC.
The victim was identified as Johura Khatun, 60, of Makorjhap village in Ishwarganj
"The July declaration is now a reality," he says
A man surrendered to police in Patuakhali early yesterday, confessing that he had killed his wife during a family dispute before fleeing with their minor son.
Today is the 37th death anniversary of former president Justice Abu Sayeed Chowdhury, said a press release.
Azim Uddin Ahmed, founder life member and former chairman of the Board of Trustees, North South University, passed away in Singapore yesterday. He was 85, said a press release.
The existing state structure of Bangladesh does not serve the people but protects the interests of a privileged group, said speakers at an event organised by Ganosamhati Andolon at Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka yesterday.
Erosion caused by the Kazi Bacha River has put the main road connecting Dacope and Batiaghata upazilas in Khulna at serious risk. At least five major points along the road have already been severely damaged,
Today is the 43rd death anniversary of Chief Justice Syed AB Mahmud Husain, said a press release.
Relentless rainfall over the past two days has left most parts of Jashore town and its outskirts submerged, damaging vegetable crops and Aman paddy seedbeds across 1,759 hectares of land.
Yasmeen Murshed, founder chairperson of Scholastica School and former adviser to the caretaker government led by then-president Iajuddin Ahmed, was laid to eternal rest at Banani Graveyard yesterday.
Judicial inquiry has to be conducted into the deaths of three Bawm men in jail custody, demanded 155 eminent citizens yesterday.
