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BUET students continue exam boycott for politics-free campus

Dhaka, April 20 -- Academic activities have resumed at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology after Eid holidays, but its students pressed on with a boycott of exams, demanding the re... Read More


Farewells for Shib Narayan Das, designer of the first Bangladeshi flag, at Shaheed Minar

Dhaka, April 20 -- People from all walks of life have come to the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka to pay their final respects to Shib Narayan Das, the freedom fighter, politician, and one of the design... Read More


Hit by disasters, Bangladesh's long wait for a safe chemical industrial park gets longer

Dhaka, April 20 -- Most of the 121.4 hectares of land has been filled with sand and workers are constructing a boundary wall around this expansive space. The foundation for the boundary wall on the n... Read More


Shib Narayan Das, JaSaD leader and designer of first Bangladesh flag, dies at 78

Dhaka, April 19 -- Shib Narayan Das, the JaSaD leader and designer of the first Bangladeshi flag, has died at the age of 78. He passed away around 9:25am at the ICU of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medica... Read More


7-year-old dies from burns in Bhashantek fire, taking the death toll from the disaster to 4

Dhaka, April 19 -- The youngest of six members of a family burnt by a fire in Mirpur's Bhashantek has succumbed to her wounds. Lamia, 7, died around 6:30am on Friday, taking the death toll from the d... Read More


Greasy liquid waste: Danger dripping from city corporation trucks on Dhaka streets

Dhaka, April 19 -- Greasy liquid from city corporation trucks transporting garbage has become a source of danger on the streets of Dhaka. Besides pollution and malodour, the slippery waste causes veh... Read More


Dump truck runs over 2 motorcycles, killing 3 people in Rajshahi

Dhaka, April 19 -- Two motorcycles have been crushed under a sand-laden dump truck in an accident that left three people dead and two others injured in Rajshahi's Paba Upazila. The driver fled with t... Read More


Child patients, parents suffer for hours after fire at Shishu Hospital

Dhaka, April 19 -- The B-Block of Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital was filled with smoke when panicked parents were evacuating their children to safety during the fire incident on Friday afternoon. M... Read More


Myanmar army, BGP personnel will be repatriated Monday: FM

Dhaka, April 19 -- Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud has said the government has finalised plans for the second phase of repatriation of Myanmar's Border Guard Police and army personnel who fled the confl... Read More


State Minister Palak 'ashamed' after attack on brother-in-law's rival

Dhaka, April 19 -- Zunaid Ahmed Palak has offered an apology over the abduction and torture of an Upazila council chairman candidate allegedly by the state minister's brother-in-law in Natore's Singra... Read More