BNP has expressed grave concern saying that the people excluded from the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam might be sent to Bangladesh.

A Dhaka court has sent barrister Mainul Hosein to jail after rejecting his bail petition in connection with a defamation case filed by a female journalist last year.

At least 39 admission seekers will compete for each seat in the first year admission test under 2019-2020 academic session of Dhaka University.

A Tk 50 ride on contract became the last trip for biker Milon Sheikh, who was killed by a mugger posing as a pillion passenger on Malibagh-Mouchak flyover on August 26.

Mahmuda Akter Mousumi, 25, an honours final year student at Mymensingh Ananda Mohan College, has been suffering from Chordoma, a rare type of cancer.

A project to extract diesel and octane from waste plastic and polythene was inaugurated in Narayanganj yesterday.

Department of Environment (DoE), Chattogram (metro) in a drive seized two tonnes of polythene from the premises of a factory at port city’s Kalamiya Bazar area yesterday.

Cumilla resident Billal Hossain was brought to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) in a critical condition after being stabbed by an auto-rickshaw driver recently.

Police yesterday rescued a baby from Dhaka’s Jatrabari area, and arrested the child’s father and step-mother in connection with her abduction.

Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne will arrive in Dhaka today on a three-day official visit, to attend the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) Blue Economy ministerial meeting, as well as meeting Bangladesh high-ups to address the Rohingya issue.

The government yesterday filed a petition with the Supreme Court, seeking stay on the High Court’s bail to Tanzila Haque Chowdhury Mitu in a case filed for provoking suicide.

Police arrested a man yesterday in Sylhet, allegedly for raping his fourteen-year-old daughter.

Police yesterday claimed to have arrested eight teenage boys in connection with murder of a 16-year-old boy in Dhaka’s Lalbagh area on Saturday.

The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) yesterday pressed charges implicating six robbers, who raped four women of a family in Karnaphuli upazila of Chattogram in 2017.

Seven people were killed and 27 injured in road accidents in three districts yesterday, according to reports from our correspondents.

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BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and seven other BNP leaders yesterday secured bail in an arson attack case, filed in October last year.

Though the number of dengue patients have come down in the last two days, experts yesterday observed that there is still a chance that the number may increase, as the city saw rain on the first day of September.

Hours after the arrest of surveyor of Department of Shipping Mirza Saifur Rahman while he was taking bribe from a service seeker, Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday filed a case against him.

Today marks the 121st birth anniversary of renowned litterateur, journalist and politician Abul Mansur Ahmad. On this day in 1898, he was born in Dhanikhola village of Mymensingh district.