A murder accused was killed after an unidentified vehicle hit him in Pardiakul area in Katiadi upazila of Kishoreganj around 2:30am yesterday.

Protest and condemnations poured in to the streets of Dhaka University yesterday, over the BCL attack on protesting students, teachers and journalists at Jahangirnagar University.

Detective Branch (DB) claims to have arrested a member of the transnational syndicate that involved in selling firearms into grey market after smuggling those from India.

The High Court issues a rule asking the government and the Election Commission (EC) to explain in four weeks why they should not be directed to resume birth registration of people at four municipalities and 71 unions in Cox’s Bazar.

Rashed Khan Menon and Fazle Hossain Badsha have been elected president and general secretary of Workers Party of Bangladesh respectively.

A Dhaka Court places house help Surovi Akhter Nahida and four others on five-day remand each in Dhanmondi double murder case.

The inflation rate comes down slightly to 5.47 per cent in October from 5.54 per cent in September due to price fall in some non-food and food items except onion.

The Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved six projects, including Tk 3,449.05 crore Physical Protection System (PPS) Project for Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant.

High Court (HC) has stayed bail of three accused in a case filed for forgery over the design of 23-storey FR Tower in Dhaka’s Banani.

Inspector General of Prisons Brig Gen AKM Mostafa Kamal Pasha submits a report to the High Court saying that there are only 10 physicians for the total 68 prisons across the country while 131 posts of doctors are now lying vacant.

The ninth edition of Dhaka Lit Fest (DLF), an internationally recognised literary festival, will be held at Bangla Academy in the capital from November 7 to 9.

If you have passed through Manik Mia Avenue recently, you may have noticed six shipping containers sitting right outside the parliament complex -- each depicting the unique architectural landscape of Dhaka in different seasons. Designed by artist Reesham Shahab Tirtho, the vibrant graffiti on the container walls have caught the attention of all commuters, many of whom stopped to check out the exhibit.

Today is the third death anniversary of Alhaj Jahanara Begum, mother of AHM Habibur Rahman, a joint secretary to the Law and Justice Division, said a press release.

A college student was killed in a head-on collision between a bus and a motorcycle on Mayor Hanif Flyover in Chankharpool area of Dhaka yesterday evening.

Jubo Dal leader Kazi Raihan Uddin Tuku, also a prominent figure of the anti-autocracy movement in the 1990s, was buried at his village graveyard at Sewta in Manikganj town yesterday.

The High Court yesterday granted four-week anticipatory bail to three leaders of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal -- the pro-BNP student body -- including its president and general secretary, in a case filed on charge of attacking police.

A Dhaka court yesterday rejected bail petitions of Tarequzzaman Rajib, a councillor of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), and sent him to jail in connection with separate cases.

Police yesterday arrested a youth from Dhaka on charge of killing a 19-year-old with a screwdriver in Chattogram city’s Ambagan area, under Khulshi Police Station, on Sunday night.

The atmosphere at Pabna University of Science and Technology (PUST) is still volatile as students continue their protest over alleged corruption in the university.

Police yesterday said around a hundred Chhatra League men were found involved in the assault of Rajshahi Polytechnic Institute Principal Farid Uddin Ahmed, while 12 of them directly pushed him into the pond on Saturday.