A pedestrian was shot last night (1 February) during a gunfire exchange between two teenage gangs in Dhaka's Hatirjheel area. The injured man, identified as Zilani, 55, was admitted to Dhaka Medical ...

The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) has suffered a major setback due to a new ...

University" has been proposed as the name for a new independent institution comprising seven major government colleges in the ...

The students gave the Dhaka University and the interim government under Mohammad Yunus a four-hour ultimatum to decide on their demands, which also included the resignation of the vice-chancellor and ...

Like many other sectors, this haven for free thought has not been immune to political influence, which threatens its original purpose of fostering open dialogue and discourse ...

Prothom Alo launched an eight-day photo exhibition titled “July Uprising” yesterday to honour the courage and sacrifices of ...

Damon Wayans has no hard feelings about getting fired from “Saturday Night Live” back in Season 11 – mostly because he wanted to be let go from the sketch show. The comedian recalled the ...

In a significant move reflecting deepening military cooperation, Lieutenant General (Lt Gen) SM Kamr-ul-Hassan, the principal staff officer of Bangladesh's Armed Forces Division and second-in ...

The Bangladeshi newspaper Prothom Alo reported on Wednesday that the constitution reform commission, formed by the interim administration, has proposed replacing secularism and two other core tenets ...

The latest technology to nab intruders is now in the hands of the Border Security Force (BSF)’s 102 Battalion, which is posted in Bengal’s Basirhat, where only 12 kilometres of the total 33-km-long ...

Even though Bangladesh is still reeling from the after-effects of its longest-serving Prime Minister’s forced departure, a Constitution Reform Commission on Wednesday submitted its report to interim ...