A court has sentenced three men, including the driver and his assistant, to life imprisonment in the case of the rape of a woman passenger on a moving…
Biman Bangladesh Airlines has extended the suspension of flights on the Dhaka-Dammam and Dhaka-Riyadh routes until November 4, in view of the ongoing …
Rotary International held a colourful rally in the capital Dhaka to mark World Polio Day. The rally, organised on Hatirjheel Lake Road, expressed soli…
The Detective Branch's Wari division of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has arrested five people, including the ringleader of a honeytrap gang, in a r…
Munira, a student of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), has died after being seriously injured in a road accident while returning …
A court has placed Abu Bakar Siddique, arrested over an suggestive Facebook comment about shooting with a sniper on a post carrying a photo of the bus…
The Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) has taken an initiative to build a modern, airport-style security system at metro rail stations in the …
A court has sentenced Mohammad Mizanur Rahman, also known as Mizan Hossain, to death for strangling his wife to death over a dowry demand. The verdict…
A father and his six-year-old daughter riding in an auto-van have been killed after being run over by a fish-carrying pickup in Muksudpur, Gopalganj. …
The Keraniganj Bondhushava has set up a new library with more than a hundred educational books at the No. 93 Sirajnagar Government Primary School in D…
The behaviour of Assistant Commissioner (Land) Arifur Rahman Shanto of Jamalganj in Sunamganj changed abruptly after he saw the body of a child who ha…
President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has gone to hospital to see the ailing Land Minister, Md. Mizanur Rahman Minu. On Sunday morning (October 25), h…
A total of 598 people were arrested in the past 24 hours in regular raids by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) at various places in the capital. Add…
The capital Dhaka ranks fifth today on the list of the world's most polluted cities. On Sunday morning the city's air quality was at the 'unhealthy' l…
A well-marked low over the Bay of Bengal could turn into a cyclone within the next three days — that fear has emerged in the latest weather informatio…
With the concentration of harmful dust particles in the air rising, Dhaka remains in the top five of the world's polluted cities today as well. Accord…
Near Dhaka, in the Pagla area of Narayanganj, lie the memories of a historic structure from the Mughal era. Once used as an important means of communi…
Munira Akter, a student of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), who was seriously injured in a road accident in Sarail, Brahmanbaria…
German Vice Minister Dr Bärbel Kofler arrives in Dhaka today, Sunday, on a three-day official visit aimed at giving a new shape to future development …
Md Arifur Rahman Shanto, Assistant Commissioner (Land) of Jamalganj upazila in Sunamganj, has posted on Facebook blaming Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO)…
Handing the operation of Chattogram Port's New Mooring Container Terminal, or NCT, to the UAE-based company DP World would leave Bangladesh without po…
One of the major religious festivals of the country's Hindu community, Lakshmi Puja, falls today, Sunday. The puja is held on the first full-moon tith…
A total of 144 flights from Dhaka to Riyadh and Dammam in Saudi Arabia have been cancelled. The number of affected passengers has reached 22,021. For …
Nahid Islam, convener of the National Citizen Party (NCP) and opposition chief whip in parliament, has expressed doubt whether the current Jatiya Sang…
The results of this year's Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations will be published on Thursday, October 29. With the date now…
In Kamalnagar, Lakshmipur, a young man named Md Mahfuz has been accused of killing an elderly man, Fazle Ali Hazari, 60, with punches and blows. Serio…
The Special Response Battalion (SRB) has arrested Bayezid Mia (20), the prime accused in a case over the rape of a 14-year-old eighth-grade schoolgirl…
Police have arrested two men with a foreign-made pistol during checkpoint operations in Mirpur, in the capital. The media wing of the Dhaka Metropolit…
Dhaka has sought answers from Riyadh over the execution of the death sentences of Nazrul and Sweety in Saudi Arabia. Bangladesh has sent Saudi Arabia …
One person applies, but someone else sits the exam — fraud of this kind in government recruitment tests has now reached an alarming level. In the firs…
Banking activity is not spread evenly across the country. In some places huge deposits are accumulating in banks and most loans are being disbursed, w…
Religious Affairs Minister Kazi Shah Mofazzal Hossain (Kaykobad) has called on imams to play a more active role in building public awareness through F…
Md Arifur Rahman Shanto, Assistant Commissioner (Land) of Jamalganj upazila in Sunamganj, made two consecutive posts on Facebook. In one he wrote, 'Sh…
Two under-trial prisoners have died in separate incidents at Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj. One of them is believed to have died of a stroke; the o…
Cancellations of Saudi-bound flights from Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport show no sign of stopping. The number of flights cancelled sin…
The Awami League is not a force for the Liberation War but a force for hegemony, Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer ATM Azharul Islam has said. He made the…
A teenage girl named Samia Nur (15) has died after falling from the eighth floor of Bangladesh Medical University (BMU) Hospital in the capital's Shah…
Midland Bank has launched a new Visa Signature credit card for customers, combining premium lifestyle, travel, dining and payment benefits. The card w…
Feni's young cricketer Mehedi Hasan Hridoy had been fighting with a dream in his heart — to play wearing the national team jersey. That dream of the c…
A madrasa teacher in Tongi, near Dhaka, being slapped by the father of a first-grade child over an allegation of kissing the child has sparked nationw…
