Yunus calls on youths for building ‘better world’

Founder of Grameen Bank, Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, called on youths for building a better world during a recent visit to the Philippines, said a press release.

Canada court keeps decision on Noor’s status pending

A federal court in Canada on Monday kept pending its decision on SHBM Noor Chowdhury, one of the six fugitives condemned to death on charge of murder of Bangladesh’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Kamal questions JS existence

Gono Forum president Kamal Hossain on Tuesday questioned the existence of the present Jatiya Sangsad.

Bangladesh salutes heroes

The nation celebrates the 49th Independence Day today with patriotic fervour and paying homage to the freedom fighters who made supreme sacrifice for the independence and sovereignty of the country.

AL, rebels bag most upazilas amid low turnout

Candidates of the ruling Awami League secured the chairman posts in 83 upazilas in the third phase of the upazila parishad elections while independent candidates including AL rebels were elected chairman at 38 upazilas and a Jatiya Party candidate was elected at one upazila.

Coaching centres to remain shut April 1-May 6

All coaching centres across the country will remain closed for over a month starting from April 1, as the Higher Secondary School Certificate and equivalent examinations is slated to begin on that day.

Bangladesh observes Genocide Day

Many parts of Bangladesh went dark for a minute from 9:00pm on Monday as the nations observed the Genocide Day, recalling the beginning of the genocide that the Pakistan military committed

DEATH OF SAU STUDENT Students continue protests in Sylhet, boycott class, exam

Sylhet Agricultural University students on Sunday continued protests in Sylhet city and announced boycott of academic activities for three days from Sunday protesting at killing of their fellow Md Wasim Afnan pushing off a bus by its staff on Saturday.

Bangladesh recalls today horror of March 25

The nation will stage a one-minute blackout tonight marking the Genocide Day recalling the horror of one of the worst genocide in modern history committed by the Pakistan occupation army against unarmed people of Bangladesh on the night of March 25, 1971 and afterwards.

Teachers outside MPO coverage postpone protests for a month

After holding nonstop sit-in for four days to press the demand for getting monthly pay order, better known as MPO, under which the government pays salaries and other benefits, hundreds of teachers and employees of non-government schools, colleges, technical institutions and