BNP senior leaders and standing committee members being defeated in the national parliamentary election are allegedly discouraging other MPs-elect of the party to take oath.

Daulatpur Government BL College has been closed today (Monday) for an indefinite period following violence on the campus centering the attempts by the activists of Bangladesh Chattra League (BCL) to capture two student dormitories dominated presently by Islami Chattra Shibir (ICS) activists.

Jatiya Party chairman and former minister and editor of the daily Ittefaq Anwar Hossain Manju along with his wife is returning home after one and a half years.

The new government led by the Awami League (AL) begins a tightrope walking this evening amid high expectations of people, ending around two-year long eventful rule of the caretaker government.

A forum named "South Asian Women's Media Forum" was formed yesterday at the National Press Club in the city.

Get ready for an onslaught of the cheap. With the economy more unstable than Plaxico Burress' mental state, electronics manufacturers are putting the e-brakes on their budgets, flattening their costs, and rolling out their cheapest, most practical gadgets. You know, the ones that people like you and me can afford.

The High Court (HC) yesterday granted bail for four months to the editor of the Bengali daily Janokantho Atique Ullah Khan Masud in each of the four cases.

Renowned poet-playwright-novelist Syed Shamsul Haq has become an actor. In an upcoming digital film directed by Shahnewaz Kakoli, the ambidextrous writer will be seen as himself. The Daily Star caught up with the litterateur recently.

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A group drawing exhibition titled “Rhythmic Lines” is now on at Asiatic Art Gallery, Nimtoli. The exhibition is an output of a workshop, which was recently held at Asiatic Art Gallery. Five painters from Nepal and 23 painters from Bangladesh have participated at the exhibition.

Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin, under threat of death from Islamist extremists who accuse her of blasphemy in her writings, is to take up residence in Paris, the city hall said Saturday.