Three and a half kilometres of road from Digarkanda bypass to Charpara intersection where the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway starts, is now illuminated at night to ensure the safety of pedestrians.

Two police officials were closed from Kawalipara police outpost under Dhamrai Police Station on Wednesday evening.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has asked special branch (SB) of police to prevent incumbent director of Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Mahbubul Anam to go abroad.

The owner and two staffers of a rehabilitation centre in Mirpur upazila of Kushtia were sent to jail yesterday after police arrested them on charge of providing wrong treatment and mercilessly beating a college student who eventually died.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Wednesday said the scheduled visit of the army chief to Myanmar will be good for Bangladesh, and “open another line of negotiation” between the two countries over Rohingya repatriation.

A fresh graduate of Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (Cuet) has been appointed as a software engineer at Google.

Renowned academic Professor Ajoy Roy, father of slain blogger Avijit Roy, is in critical condition.

Socio-political aspects of rumour

Customs officials detain a man with 6.60 kilogrammes of gold ornaments worth Tk 3.21 crore at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital.

The High Court grants anticipatory bail to four BNP leaders including its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir for eight weeks in a case filed on November 26 on charges of vandalism and assault on police.

The family members of Feni madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi have said they are happy with the judgement against former OC Moazzem Hossain, who was convicted for filming Nusrat’s statement and circulating the video in the social media.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police has formed a three-member committee to investigate how a death row convict managed a prayer cap emblazoned with the IS logo at a courtroom during the verdict of the Holey Artisan Café attack case.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated four development projects through a video conference from her official residence Gono Bhaban in Dhaka.

The government has brought back 152 Bangladeshis and the bodies of three workers from war-torn Libya.

A teacher of Dhaka University's economics department, who was sent on forced leave in 2017, has been staging a sit-in in front of the chairman’s room for the third consecutive day demanding to be reinstated to his duties.

A Gaibandha court has sentenced seven people including Gaibandha’s former lawmaker Col (retd) Abdul Kader Khan to death in MP Manzurul Islam Liton murder case.

The Supreme Court (SC) has sought medical reports on BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s health condition while hearing her bail petition in Zia Charitable Trust corruption case.

A suspected drug trader is killed in a reported gunfight with members of Detective Branch of police at West Mahduripur in Noakhali’s Sadar upazila.

Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU) is set to launch a research vessel today to conduct study for increasing fish production in Kaptai Lake -- the biggest artificial lake in South-east Asia -- located in Rangamati district.

Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) and Crime Reporters’ Association Bangladesh (CRAB) have expressed concerns over alleged death threats to Rafiq Majumder, senior reporter of online news portal Jagonews24, for publishing a news.