Professor Ajoy Roy dies
Physicist and freedom fighter Professor Ajoy Roy, father of slain popular science writer Avijit Roy, died at the age of 84 in BIRDEM hospital in Dhaka on Monday afternoon.
Five get Begum Rokeya Padak
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday handed over the prestigious Begum Rokeya Padak to five persons for their outstanding contributions to the society
Arrests, violence mark BNP protests
Violence and arrests of opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders and activists at places in Dhaka, Sirajganj and elsewhere in the country
Rubaiyat Killing Friend to be quizzed for 4 days as protests on
A Dhaka court on Sunday granted investigators four days to question Abdur Rahman Saikat, a friend of Stamford University student Rubaiyat Sharmin Rumpa who was found dead in
Sewage Outlets into Buriganga Dwasa gets 6 months to seal
The High Court Division on Sunday extended by six months the deadline for Dwasa to seal its 68 underground pipe lines under use to dump sewer into the Buriganga River.
PM mourns Delhi fire victims
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday expressed condolences over a horrific fire that broke out in a house in Aanaj Mandi area on Rani Jhansi Road in New Delhi on Sunday.
Bangladesh win six gold medals from archery
Bangladesh have won six out of six gold medals in archery on the eighth day of the 13th South Asian Games in Pokhara, Nepal on Sunday.
One put on 4-day remand over Rubaiya’s death
A Dhaka court on Sunday put Abdur Rahman Saikat on a four-day remand for further interrogation over the death of university student Rubaiya Sharmin Rumpa.
30 injured in AL, BNP clash in Sirajganj
At least 30 people including two police personnel were injured in a clash between the activists of local Awami League and Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Kalibari-Eliot
BNP to face Muslim League’s fate: Obaidul
Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday said Bangladesh Nationalist Party would face the same fate of Muslim League due to its leadership crisis.
