Muntakim Saad

Four suspected “masterminds” of a racket who amassed a hefty amount of money allegedly by leaking question papers of various public exams and government recruitment tests, got bail in a money laundering case recently.

What could be a day of boundless festivity for the first time in three decades was eventually spoiled by allegations of foul play, and it was the female students of the country's premier university who first raised the alarm bell.

The ghastly fire at the Churihatta intersection in Dhaka’s Chawkbazar area leaves some with the last moments of their lives in agony, while others are left with a horrific memory that will haunt them forever.

“Fire!”, “Leave immediately!” -- such screams were ricocheting off the walls and echoing down the corridors of the children's ward at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital, as frenzied patients started running for safety, moments after Thursday's fire broke out at the hospital.

The hope for justice for a college girl, who was sexually assaulted during an Awami League rally last year, has turned bleak as police have appealed to close the case claiming they could not identify the culprits.

Three sons of presidents are running for parliament from Kishoreganj and people are saying it's the district of the VIPs.

Voters in Netrokona-4 had high hopes for a tough race as three women with graduate degrees were running for parliament from there.

About 200 teenagers were found shouting slogans near the IBA Hostel in Farmgate on Sunday to drum up public support for Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, Awami League candidate for Dhaka-12.

Around noon yesterday, prison vans entering the court premises rang alive with party slogans being shouted by those inside.

Since the Rohingya influx, around 70 percent of school-age children and youth are yet to have access to any educational facility. There is also a scarcity of space in the camps.

Teenage gang feud was behind the murder of 17-year-old Mehedi Hasan Shuvo, who was killed by his rivals in the capital's Dakkhin Khan area on August 31, said police.

Dr Mong Sano Marma initiated the genome sequencing and proposed it to Prof Haseena Khan, who led the research. Mong also convinced his neighbour in the US, Dr Peter Ianakiev, who facilitated the genome sequencing at his research organisation for free.

BCL men have attacked quota reformists at least 13 times in the last three months, injuring around 68 students of four universities. But neither police nor the university authorities took action against any of the attackers.

It was like wooing customers to have kebab and biriyani at popular Bihari restaurants. Only a few steps into the Camper Bazar, youths in small groups were looking for potential customers, holding packets full of pink tablets.

Question paper leaks seem unstoppable.

A professor at Jahangirnagar University secretly married one of his students, forced her to abort their first child and then divorced her three days after she gave birth to a second one, the victim said in a written complaint to the JU authorities.

She was to finish her studies in a few months and be the one looked up to by her poor family. But her dreams were dealt a big blow yesterday.

The High Court yesterday upheld the death sentences of five former Chhatra League activists and acquitted four others in the Jahangirnagar University student Zubair Ahmed murder case.

On January 8, 2012, Jahangirnagar University student Zubair Ahmed was mercilessly beaten and stabbed by a rival group of

Sekandar Ali, a morgue attendant, who worked on more than 80,000 bodies in his 35 years in the profession at Dhaka Medical College, also nurtured a rather wholesome hobby.