Police have arrested an office assistant of Rajshahi City Corporation in connection with a case filed against him for raping a college student.

Voicing displeasure over the chaotic use of illegal billboards and signboards in the city, Mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation Atiqul Islam today said no one will be allowed to do business without permission from the authorities concerned.

Two more accused in the case filed over the gang rape of a woman at Murari Chand (MC) College in Sylhet made confessional statements before a Sylhet court today.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) will start a drive against battery-run rickshaws and rickshaw-vans from tomorrow.

In a rare move, two High Court judges have operated a bench last night and directed Dhanmondi Police Station to immediately take necessary steps so that two minor grandchildren of former attorney general KS Nabi can enter and live in his (KS Nabi) Dhanmondi residence.

A Dhaka tribunal today sentenced two domestic aides to death in a case filed against them for killing former principal of Eden Mohila College Mahfuza Chowdhury Parvin in February last year.

A Dhaka court has fixed October 27 for delivering judgment in a case filed against five members of banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) over the murder of blogger Oyasiqur Rahman Babu in 2015.

A house help died after she fell from the rooftop of a building in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area this morning.

A woman was stabbed to death at home in Dhaka’s Kamrangirchar area Friday night.

Activists of Bangladesh Jubo Maitree yesterday formed a human chain in front of the Jatiya Press Club to press home their nine-point demand, including removal of the health minister.

Two people were killed died and at least five others were injured in a three-way bus, truck, and microbus collision at Korpai of Chandina on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway yesterday morning.

Nine survivors of the gruesome Mizdah attack in May were among 164 Bangladeshis who were repatriated in a chartered flight from war-torn Libya this week, International Organisation for Migration said yesterday.

BNP senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan yesterday alleged that people are getting scared of politics due to “wrongdoings” and “spiting venom” by the government in the name of politics.

When 32-year-old Shabib Rahman (not his real name) got married in 2015, it came as a relief for him. From cleaning his room to arranging daily meals, everyday things he had to do for his six years of living alone in Dhaka he was now relieved of.

Before Pradeep Gregory, a priest in Rajshahi, was arrested on rape charges, religious and community leaders tried to settle the matter in an arbitration, promising to take responsibility of the girl and her family members in exchange for their silence.

When the coronavirus pandemic hit Bangladesh early in March, most industries got up and on their toes. Fearing bankruptcy, they scratched their heads and looked for a way out.

The first round of a webinar series by the Bengal Institute Project at the Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) is set to take place this Tuesday, says a press release.

A mobile court has imposed fines totalling Tk 43 lakh on Meridian Food Products and BSP Food Products Pvt Ltd in Chattogram’s Kalurghat area for various anomalies, including use of expired food colours and flavours and for running production without license.

A police personnel was found critically injured near his house in Dhaka’s Rampura area this morning.

A youth is killed after a bus hits him in Dhaka’s New Elephant Road area.