Following the severe cold till Sunday with north-eastern hill town Srimangal recording the day’s lowest temperature of 6.5 degrees Celsius and Tetulia to the north-west recording 6.7 degrees C, the temperature is likely to rise in the next two to three days. However, the shivering cold may return…

Protests are pouring in from various quarters against the blunders in the free textbooks that were distributed recently among students from the primary level to Class IX. Immediate steps have been demanded against those responsible to prevent any repetition of such mistakes. The Left-leaning Bangladesh…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka yesterday night for Davos on a five-day official visit to Switzerland to join the 47th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), reports BSS. Executive Chairman of the WEF Prof Klaus Schwab invited her to attend the Forum who would be the first elected…

A college girl was stabbed allegedly by her ‘boyfriend’ at Kaliganj Bazar in Zakiganj upazila of Sylhet yesterday following the refusal of his marriage proposal, reports UNB.  The victim was identified as Jhuma Begum Suma, 19, a student of Ichhamati Degree College and a resident of…

A Gaibandha court yesterday placed two people on a two-day remand each in a case filed over the killing of Gaibandha-1 lawmaker Manjurul Islam Liton, reports UNB. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Mainul Hasan Yusuf passed the order when investigation officer of the case Ashrafuzzaman produced them…

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday said Bangladesh has moved one more step towards building digital Bangladesh with the inauguration of the online police clearance certificate service, reports UNB. “Service seekers will face no harassment while the process will ensure transparency and accountability,”…