The government yesterday announced names of 24 eminent citizens this year for the Ekushey Padak -- the country’s second highest civilian award after Swadhinata Padak -- for contributions in their respective fields.

A ruling party lawmaker, who was accused of occupying the land of a martyred intellectual’s family in Barishal around three weeks ago, is now allegedly trying to evict around a dozen minority families from their ancestral land.

As soon as Samad and I reached the university (February 21), students asked us: “What have you decided?” We said you can take a decision independently.

The deployment of additional United States troops in Eastern Europe is escalating tensions in the region, the Kremlin said yesterday, after Washington said it would send 3,000 extra troops to Poland and Romania.

The government could not control rice price although it had the highest ever rice stock and record production of Aush, Aman and Boro varieties, said Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque.

There is no possibility of expansion of the US sanctions against Rab either in the US or elsewhere, said State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam yesterday.

Officials at Chattogram passport office yesterday handed a Rohingya man to police for attempting to get a Bangladeshi passport.

A Habiganj court yesterday sent a man to jail in a case filed over the gang rape of woman after Rab arrested him the capital.

The High Court yesterday granted anticipatory bail to law professor Sheikh Hafizur Rahman Karzon of Dhaka University for eight weeks in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.

Businessman Abu Mohasin Khan who died by suicide in his Dhanmondi apartment on Wednesday night left a note saying that he was swindled out of Tk 5.1 crore by several individuals, said police.

A 15-year-old girl was gang-raped in a village of Thakurgaon Sadar early Tuesday, said police.

A Bailey bridge collapsed along with a rice-laden truck in Bandarban’s Rowangchhari upazila around 2:00pm yesterday, killing the driver on the spot.

The holy Shab-e-Meraj will be observed in the country on the night of February 28.

Bangladesh Satellite Company Ltd (BSCL) yesterday signed a cooperation contract with Russian company Glavkosmos for launching Bangabandhu Satellite-2 within December next year.

Myanmar’s shadow government, set up after last year’s military coup, said it accepts the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to hear allegations that the country committed genocide against its Rohingya minority.

Munira Akter, mother of Rajshahi University student Mahmud Habib Himel, could not shed any tears seeing the coffin of her only son, but her blank eyes made everyone around her choke up.

Two indigenous people were killed and another suffered burn injuries in Langri Para of Bandarban’s Alikadam upazila early yesterday.   

Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Xavier Bettel on Tuesday announced he was giving up a degree he earned in 1999 after being hit with accusations of plagiarism.

Nato leaders pursued diplomatic efforts on the Ukraine crisis yesterday after President Vladimir Putin accused the West of trying to draw Russia into a war but left the door open to further talks.

In January 1952, I was the vice-president of the East Pakistan Muslim Chattra League. After Nazimuddin’s speech at Paltan Maidan (January 27, 1952),