A Dhaka court yesterday placed choreographer Evan Shahriar Sohag on a seven-day remand in a case filed on charge of trafficking women to Dubai.

In a blow to citizen morale, Barishal City Corporation has placed lowest in the evaluation of annual performance contracts under the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives (LGRD).

The prosecution yesterday concluded arguments and sought capital punishment for all five accused in blogger Oyasiqur Rahman Babu murder case.

A schoolgirl was stabbed to death allegedly by a stalker inside an abandoned house in Savar’s Dakkhin Para area on Sunday night.

Chandni Ghat, Clocktower of Ali Amjad, Kean Bridge, Sarada Hall and Circuit House -- all stand side by side on Surma riverbank, and together symbolise present-day Sylhet city.

The Supreme Court yesterday upheld a High Court order that granted anticipatory bail to Toufique Imrose Khalidi, editor-in-chief of online news portal bdnews24, in a graft case.

After a brief pause, taken to cooperate with government directives and to aid in minimising the spread of Covid-19, British Council has resumed conducting computer-delivered IELTS and paper-based IELTS exams.

Around 40 turtles were found dead on Cox’s Bazar sea beach in mid-July, due to injuries after being entangled in fishing nets, said a fact-finding committee.

A cement clinker laden lighter vessel capsized at the Bay of Bengal near Bhasanchar area yesterday morning.

A youth on Sunday confessed to killing two teen cousins in Rangpur, said police.

The health condition of Attorney General Mahbubey Alam, who has been receiving treatment at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) for Covid-19 infection, deteriorated again tonight.

Former vice president of Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) Nurul Haque Nur has been formally released around midnight.

A Dhaka court today placed Abdul Malek, a driver of the Directorate General of Health Service (DGHS), on a 14-day remand in two separate cases filed on charges of possessing an illegal firearm and trading fake currencies.

A top official of the Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB) has died in a road accident in Dhaka’s Jatrabari.

Customs House at Inland Container Depot (ICD) in Dhaka seized alcoholic beverages from a consignment imported by giving a false declaration.

A Dhaka University student, who was raped in the capital's Kurmitola area, narrated the incident on camera before a Dhaka tribunal today.

A rape case has been filed with Lalbagh Police Station against six people, including vice president of Dhaka University Central Students' Union (Ducsu) Nurul Haque Nur.

A Dhaka court has deferred till October 7 the hearing on charge framing against four accused in connection with the killing of Sagira Morshed in the capital 30 years ago.

Suspected muggers shot a businessman and snatched away Tk 8,500 and a gold chain from him in the capital’s Bangshal area last night.

Law enforcers have arrested 12 men and 16 women for “antisocial activities” at a spa and a parlour in Gulshan area of Dhaka.