Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) will start a “combing operation” to increase its tax net from September 1, DNCC Mayor Atiqul Islam said at a city corporation meeting in Nagar Bhaban today.

A bailey bridge collapsed after a cement-laden truck hit it and fell into the waterbody in Gaibandha’s Fulchari upazila today.

The High Court today said it will intervene if any irregularity takes place in the inquiry into the torture of five people -- including three women -- in Cox's Bazar.

Judgement in the case filed against former sub-inspector of Pallabi Police Station Jahidur Rahman Khan and four others over the custodial death of Ishtiaque Ahmed Jonny in 2014 will be delivered on September 9.

Followers of Chattogram Lawmaker Mostafizur Rahman allegedly attacked a section of freedom fighters while they were forming a human chain in the port city today.

The government has decided to appoint Md Shameem Ahsan, currently serving as the high commissioner of Bangladesh to Nigeria, as the next ambassador to Italy.

Abdus Shahid, joint chief news editor of private television channel NTV, passed away at a hospital in the capital yesterday, after a long battle with Covid-19.

Today is the Student-Teacher Repression Day at Rajshahi University.

A Dhaka court yesterday cancelled the bail of two former teachers of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College in a case filed over provoking suicide of ninth-grader Aritry Adhikary in December 2018, as they were absent in the court without any explanation.

Six workers of Goodrich Sweaters Ltd, a factory of Skyline Group in Ashulia, started an indefinite hunger strike in front of Ashulia Press Club

The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the High Court orders that stayed the trial proceedings against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in four separate

Consumers’ Association of Bangladesh (CAB) yesterday served a legal notice on authorities, asking them to stop collection of inflated electricity bills of

Dhaka University vice-chancellor Prof Md Akhtaruzzaman yesterday said the then un-elected and undemocratic government was responsible for

Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday said Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was detained and sent to jail for several times in his life, but he never depended on anybody’s mercy to get released from custody.

Diplomats stationed in Dhaka at a discussion on Saturday highlighted the values set by Bangabandhu and the importance of following his ideology.

Recreational destinations of the port city were reopened on Saturday after five months, but visitors were few and far between as fear of infection still remains. Moreover, the weather has not been favourable.

Artistes and activists from different arena have joined in a protest at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka, demanding release of photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol.

The Supreme Court has exempted lawyer Syed Mamun Mahbub from contempt of court rule it had issued against him for posting a derogatory status about chief justice and the judiciary on Facebook on August 11.

A woman was killed after a water tank on the rooftop of a nearby building collapsed and fell on her tin-shed house in Dhaka's Kamalapur area last night.

Expressing grave concern over the incident of deaths of three boys and injuries of many due to torture at the Juvenile Development Centre in Jashore, civil society network for child rights has urged the formation of a judicial inquiry committee into the matter.