The High Court acquits four people, who were sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment by a lower court in the case filed over death of four-year-old Jihad after he fell into a deep abandoned shaft in Dhaka's Shahjahanpur seven years back.

A schoolgirl is allegedly raped by a young man at Gourighona village in Jashore’s Keshabpur Upazila.

Uber announces the launch of its services in Cox's Bazar, making it the fourth city in Bangladesh after Dhaka, Chattogram and Sylhet.

Students have demonstrated at Rajshahi University demanding exemplary punishment for those accused in a rape case filed by one of their fellows.

The High Court has said vehicles without valid fitness documents will not be allowed to ply the roads in Bangladesh.

Another Rohingya man has been rescued from the sea near St Martin’s Island, after around 24 hours of the trawler capsize incident that left 15 Rohingyas dead early yesterday.

A mobile court seals off two private hospitals and fines them Tk 55,000 for irregularities at Savar municipality outside the capital.

Two journalists of private channel News24 were attacked, allegedly by traders, on their way to cover a drive by Customs Bond Commissionerate at Old Dhaka’s Nayabazar yesterday afternoon.

A Dhaka court yesterday took cognisance of charges against five people, in a case filed over forgery in the design of FR Tower in the capital’s Banani.

As many as 391 people fell victim to extrajudicial killings in 2019, according to a report by rights organisation Odhikar.

Around 28,832 posts of headteacher and assistant teacher remain vacant in primary schools as of December 2019, said State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Zakir Hossain yesterday.

On the 8th anniversary of the murder of journalist couple Sagar-Runi, Inspector General of Police Javed Patwari yesterday said the probe report in the case will be submitted soon.

Investigation by Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has revealed names of some top officials of Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) involved in graft on construction projects.

Yesterday marked the 19th death anniversary of Tawfiq Aziz Khan, former executive editor of The Daily Star, sports writer and commentator.

Forty-four percent women of ethnic minority groups in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) experience domestic violence at least once in their lifetime, of which 82 percent cases are in the hands of their husbands, a study by the Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) revealed yesterday.

The elderly writer, who had been publishing his own books and taking those to stalls at Ekushey book fair for the last 20 years, has finally found a publication house keen on his work.

A steel bridge collapsed over Rajerber canal adjacent to Madhabpasha Union Parishad under Babuganj upazila in Barishal after a heavyweight stone-laden truck attempted to cross it yesterday morning.

A five-year-old boy is burned alive during a freak accident at Debiganj in Panchagarh.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s sister Selima Islam has made a humanitarian call to the government for releasing the party chief, paving the way for her advanced treatment.

Jaima Newaz Tisha, a child who lost the toes on her right leg after a launch, MV Yead, hit her at Fatullah launch terminal on December 2017, has received Tk 3 lakh for treatment from the owner of the launch.