BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday slammed his ruling party counterpart Obaidul Quader for questioning the existence of his party.

The 22-day ban on hilsa catching was a success, officials of Department of Fisheries (DoF) claimed after the ban period’s end yesterday.

A single dose of crystal meth costs around Tk 10,000 to 12,000.

Col (retd) Shawkat Ali, former deputy speaker, of the parliament, was put on life support at Dhaka Combined Military Hospital (CMH) yesterday.

Due to lack of education, indigenous people living both in plainlands and hill tracts are continuously being deprived of job opportunities, which is pushing them to ultra poverty, a study has found.

Experts at an online seminar yesterday warned against the dangerous practice of uncontrolled sand-mining, cautioning that this is destroying our rivers.

Jagannath University (JnU) student Tithy Sarker, who has remained missing for 10 days, was sued under the Digital Security Act yesterday for making “derogatory” comments about religion on Facebook.

More than half of road crash victims are between 21 and 40 years old, the most productive segment of the population, according to Accident Research Institute (ARI) of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet).

Back in the early 2000’s I used to head out to Eastern Plaza in Dhaka with my pocket full of hard earned savings to buy games to play. Cracked games mostly and the occasional originals for consoles shared by friends. Wow, those were expensive. And when all else failed, it was time to head out to the shady, makeshift, sweat smelling street corner shops with arcade machines. That still cost money. Two taka per game would add up to many, many ‘monies’.

Different areas in Dhaka will experience eight-hour power outage in turn over this month, starting from today till November 30.

Jagannath University (JnU) student Tithy Sarker has been sued under the Digital Security Act for making "derogatory" comments about religion on Facebook.

A tribunal in Dhaka today concluded recording statements of witnesses in a case filed over rape of a Dhaka University (DU) student in the capital's Kurmitola earlier this year.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today commissioned five modern warships for Bangladesh Navy -- BNS Umar Farooq, BNS Abu Ubaidah, BNS Prottasha, BNS Darshak and BNS Tallashi -- at Naval Berth-1 in Chattogram.

More than 100 students from medical and dental colleges staged demonstration in Rajshahi city this morning to press home a four-point demand including ensuring session jam-free academic year.

Bilkis Begum (88), maternal aunt of Law Minister Anisul Huq, is no more.

Marking the fourth death anniversary of Jahanara Begum, a milad and dua mahfil will be held on November 6 (Friday) after juma prayers at Jahanara Monzil, Shaheb Para in Lalmonirhat.

A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against Partha Gopal Banik, a suspended deputy inspector general (prisons) of Sylhet division, in a case filed over the recovery of Tk 80 lakh from his residence in Dhaka.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has pressed charges against Regent Group Chairperson Mohammad Shahed and Managing Director Masud Parvez, in a case filed over possessing fake notes worth Tk 1.14 lakh.

A woman yesterday finally got justice, 10 long years after her rape and enforced abortion.

Journalist Golam Sarwar, who was abducted on October 29 and discovered four days later, yesterday filed a case with the port city’s Kotwali Police Station accusing six unidentified people.