Heavy rain submerged many streets of the port city Chittagong yesterday, leaving the normal life in disarray, reports UNB. The low-lying areas of the…

Renowned singer-composer Lucky Akhand passed away yesterday at the age of 61, reports UNB. Lucky Akhand breathed his last at his Armanitola residence…

At least twelve activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the student associate body of ruling Awami League, were injured in infighting between rival groups over occupying dormitory seats and establishing supremacy in Salimullah Muslim Hall of Dhaka University on Thursday night. The injured were…

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has formed 77 teams to visit the 77 organisational districts of the party across the country to review the process of their reorganisation and report on their overall progress, said party sources. The teams are headed by members of the standing committee and the…

A team of scientists from the Fisheries Research Institute (FRI) yesterday gathered samples of dead fish from the haors of Sunamganj to identify the real cause of death. FRI chief scientific officer Masud Hossain Khan told The Independent that they need to conduct further studies on the deaths of different…

Islami Andolan Bangladesh yesterday demanded that the ‘controversial’ sculpture in front of the Supreme Court premises be removed before the holy months of Ramadan. Otherwise, the islamist party threatened to stage countrywide protest on 17th of Ramadan for its removal.   Ameer of Islami…

The government’s decision to promote nine employees as officers has created uproar among teachers. They said those who were under them have now become their boss. But sources in the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education said it is a temporary move and not promotion. They would return to their…