Billionaire Indian industrialist Gautam Adani has been charged with paying hundreds of millions of dollars of bribes and hiding the payments from investors, US prosecutors said yesterday

A first-year student of Jahangirnagar University died after she was hit by a battery-powered rickshaw on campus yesterday evening.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed former law minister Anisul Huq on a five-day remand in a murder case filed over the death of garment worker Fazlul Karim during the July-August mass uprising on August 5 in Uttara.

Students under the banner of “Student-masses against Fascism” staged a symbolic coffin procession against fascism on the Dhaka University campus yesterday.

The Kumlai river, a vital 20-kilometre tributary of the Teesta flowing through Nilphamari’s Dimla upazila, is on the brink of disappearing.

Workers of Beximco Industrial Park blocked the Dhaka-Tangail highway for the seventh consecutive day yesterday, demanding due salaries.

A female Ansar member has sued three of her senior colleagues, bringing allegations of sexual harassment and job dismissal against them.

Within just two years after excavation by Bangladesh Water Development Board, the Leinga canal at Chattogram’s Karnaphuli upazila has been filled up once again.

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus yesterday said the country’s education system must foster creativity to create a generation of entrepreneurs.

Students of Dhaka College and City College clashed for about two hours in the Science Lab and its neighbourhood areas yesterday afternoon, causing injuries to at least 15 people.