Cyber police have arrested a youth from Dhaka’s Mugda area on charge of child pornography for allegedly blackmailing an Indian minor by threatening to leak her videos online.

The High Court today directed the Department of Environment (DoE) to lodge a case against 30 washing plants in Keraniganj area in 30 days for polluting the water of Buriganga river in the area.

The driver, prime accused in the case filed over attempt to rape in a moving bus in Sunamganj, was arrested yesterday morning,

A platform of sugar mill workers and employees’ children yesterday demanded the government turn state-run sugar mills profitable by making planned investment and diversifying sugar products.

A teenage boy was killed and two sustained stab injuries when a group attacked them in Mohakhali area of the capital on Friday.

Water level at one point of River Padma has drastically decreased from what it was during the same period last year, a survey conducted by experts from India and Bangladesh has found.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday called upon BNP to return to the positive trend of politics in the new year.

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday alleged that Bangladesh is now being labelled as a country of “hybrid regime” as one-party rule has been established under the cover of democracy.

Around 4,200 shops in 18 markets of Dhaka South City Corporation have been running illegally for years, depriving DSCC a good amount of revenue.

Today is the second death anniversary of former general secretary of Awami League and public administration minister Syed Ashraful Islam.

A five-day long honey, handicrafts, small and cottage industries fair will kick off in the capital today.

It’s a tough time to be an artiste in the country right now, as the economic consequences of coronavirus continue to rattle creative professionals. For female jatra artistes in Mymensingh, the situation has become crippling, especially during winter -- the peak time of the year for this craft.

A teenage boy was killed and two others sustained stab injuries when a rival group attacked them in Dhaka’s Mohakhali area last night.

At least eight people were killed and 14 injured in road accidents across the country yesterday, according to reports from our correspondents and a news agency.

Right after graduating in 2017, Hamim (not his real name) started submitting scholarship applications for master’s programmes abroad. In the meantime, he kept working as a marketing officer for a private organisation.

The law ministry has planned to reduce backlog of at least six lakh cases from the existing 38 lakh cases pending with the courts across the country in 2021.

Farida Yasmin of the Daily Ittefaq made history by getting elected as the first female president of Jatiya Press Club on Thursday.

On a visit to Prabartak intersection in the port city last weekend, Chittagong University student Apu Saha became shocked to see the battered state of the sculpture Rupali Guitar, which had been installed in remembrance of the late and great musician Ayub Bachchu.

Five years ago, I was looking for birds at a lake in Florida. The lake had a grid of piers for boat landing. I was walking along one when a reddish-brown bird, medium in size, flew by close to me and started circling above the water.

A five-year-old, who was found dead in a pond on Tuesday morning in Rangpur, was killed by her neighbour after she protested sexual abuse on her, said police.