In line with a High Court directive, the government has shut down all illegal brick kilns in five districts -- Dhaka, Narayanganj, Gazipur, Munshiganj, and Manikganj, the Department of Environment said in a report.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has laid emphasis on a peaceful solution to the Rohingya crisis as Bangladesh seeks Cambodia’s support for early repatriation of the forcibly-displaced Myanmar nationals temporarily sheltered in Bangladesh.

Jagannath University authorities yesterday suspended four students for allegedly ragging a female student on the campus. The girl, a first-year student, is yet to spend a week on campus as her classes began on January 1.

A Chattogram court yesterday sent 23 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami to jail after they surrendered before the court in a case filed with Double Mooring Police Station over subversive activities and assaulting police in 2018.

Bangladesh Railway is going to change schedules for 35 intercity trains starting January 10, Rail Minister Nurul Islam Sujan said yesterday.

Concerned authorities yesterday withdrew five police personnel of Fatullah Model Police Station, on charges of negligence in duty.

Officials from Chattogram Metro unit of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) distributed 300 blankets among cold-hit people in different areas of Rangamati yesterday.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says that the offenders involved in violating a Dhaka University student would be brought to justice soon.

The authorities of Jagannath University (JnU) suspends four students for harassing a female student on the campus recently.

Rejecting BNP’s call to shelve the plan to use Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) in elections to Dhaka north and south city corporations, Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda categorically says that there is no scope to stay aside from the plan.

The Election Commission issues a show-cause notice to Awami League’s mayor candidate Atiqul Islam of Dhaka North City Corporation election over allegation of violating the electoral code of conduct.

Doctors find the evidence of rape after a forensic test of a student of Dhaka University.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address the nation tomorrow evening marking the first anniversary of her current government formed through the December 30, 2018 general election.

A Supreme Court lawyer files a writ petition with the High Court seeking a directive on the Election Commission to defer the date of Dhaka city corporation elections, slated for January 30, as Saraswati Puja will be held on the same day.

The crime scene of the alleged rape of a Dhaka University student in Dhaka’s Kurmitola area is strewn with evidence ranging from undergarments to respiratory inhalers.

The High Court rejects a writ petition that challenged Workers Party President Rashed Khan Menon’s lawmakership being elected in the December 30 Jatiya Sangsad elections in 2018 from Dhaka-8 constituency.

A house tutor of Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib Hall in Dhaka University is assaulted when she was trying to stop two clashing groups of Chhatra League women on the campus.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asks the police personnel to gain public trust and confidence by developing themselves as the 'force of people'.

Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) authorities form a medical board for providing better treatment to a Dhaka University student who was allegedly raped in the capital’s Kurmitola area last night.

High Court directs the authorities concerned of the government to ban single-use plastic products in the coastal areas and hotels, motels and restaurants across the country in next one year.