A man was killed and 17 were injured after the bus carrying them overturned in a paddy field beside Patiya Bypass in Patiya upazila of Chattogram yesterday.

Police in separate drives arrested four drug peddlers and recovered 2,558 yaba pills, Tk 1 lakh, and liquor in Barishal city on Friday night.

Officials of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) arrested a bus driver yesterday, on the charge of molesting a female student of Chittagong University on Friday night.

Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque yesterday said Bangladesh is committed to ensure biosafety as an adaptor of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity.

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam yesterday said the government under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is working relentlessly for infrastructural development in rural areas.

Bangladesh Chhatra League President Rezwanul Haque Chowdhury Shovon and General Secretary Golam Rabbani resign from their posts amid allegations of their controversial activities.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asks the Awami League leaders and workers to work for fulfilling the hopes and aspirations of the people by keeping up their confidence and trust to take root in the party.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines adds the fourth Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner to its fleet

Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change recommends fining Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) for polluting environment by keeping waste at Aminbazar landfill in Savar.

The first-year honours admission test of "Cha" unit (General knowledge) under the Fine Art faculty for 2019-20 academic sessions of Dhaka University has been held.

Up before dawn, I take a quick cold shower to rouse me for a full day of bird photography and gather my binoculars, hat, boots and camera. Leaving the hotel my Australian birder friends and I drive north , leaving behind Katherine, a small town in the Northern Territories of Australia. After about fifteen minutes we stop and walk down a dirt road to a stream called Edith Creek.

Abdul Motaleb had never been a fan of wristwatches. Then again, watches were more of a luxury for the 75-year-old street vendor, which may have compelled him not to wear any.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested two Indians with USD 29,600 from Benapole Port area on Thursday.

Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmad yesterday said the government is committed to ensure safe, regular and responsible immigration.

A man was killed after a wild elephant trampled him down at Purbo Bhutiapara in Sadar upazila of Cox’s Bazar yesterday.

Bangladesh Navy rescued 14 sailors after a cargo ship sank in the Bay of Bengal near Payra Fairway Boya yesterday morning.

At least six BCL activists were injured in a factional clash at Rajshahi University over a trivial matter yesterday.

A university student in Rajshahi was shown arrested and sent to jail on Thursday after being accused in a rape case as he refused to marry the girl he was having an affair with.

Md Shafiqul Islam, the newly-appointed commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), took charge yesterday as the successor of DMP Commissioner Md Asaduzzaman Miah.

Asserting that Awami League does not believe in politics of vengeance, Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud yesterday called upon BNP to leave the “vengeful” path introduced by its founder Ziaur Rahman.