Indian External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar leaves Dhaka for Kathmandu saying Bangladesh-India relations are now on a "positive trajectory".

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has asked Dhaka’s deputy commissioner (DC) and Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) to report to the commission about the status of the capital’s canals.

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A section of Dhaka University students formed a human chain on the campus yesterday, protesting the repeated attacks on Ducsu Vice President Nurul Haque Nur.

The Supreme Court yesterday cleared the way for the government to publish the gazette notification on implementing the recommendation of ninth wage board for journalists.

The High Court (HC) yesterday accepted three separate appeals by 43 convicts in a case filed over attack on a train carrying the then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina in Pabna’s Ishwardi 25 years ago.

A Dhaka court yesterday granted bail to the land owner of FR Tower, SMHI Faruque, considering his illness and old age, till August 29 in connection with the cases filed for illegal extension of the high-rise in Banani that caught fire on March 27.

With the official launching of “combing operation” yesterday, Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) imposed fine of Tk three lakh on the owners of four buildings for finding Aedes mosquito larvae on the sites.

President Abdul Hamid yesterday asked universities to take necessary steps to ensure a congenial atmosphere for academic activities.

At least seven people were killed and four injured in road accidents across the country in the last two days, according to reports from our correspondents.

Due to strict vigilance and continuous drives against drug trafficking by law enforcement agencies in Cox’s Bazar, drug peddlers have adopted new techniques and are smuggling yaba to the country through the Indian border, said Khandker Golam Faruq, deputy inspector general (DIG) of police (Chattogram Range), yesterday.

It was around 5am yesterday. Sub-inspector (SI) Mustafizur Rahman of Double Mooring Police Station and his team were on patrol duty in front of Akhtaruzzaman Centre in Agrabad area of port city.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) yesterday said very little progress has been made to address the lack of legal status for the Rohingya in the region, or to address the underlying causes of Rohingyas’ exclusion in Myanmar.

John T Godfrey, deputy coordinator for regional and multilateral affairs, Bureau of Counterterrorism and Countering Violent Extremism under the US Department of State, was in Dhaka on a two-day (August 18, 19) visit.

Editor of Bangla daily Vorer Pata Dr Kazi Ertaza Hasan, and its online desk in-charge and reporter Utpal Das were sued under the Digital Security Act in Dinajpur yesterday.

Police filed a case against four youths and four other unnamed persons on charge of provoking suicide by threatening to release the victim’s nude video on the internet at Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila.

The defence lawyer for suspended Sonagazi OC Moazzem Hossain yesterday completed cross-examining the complainant of the case filed over filming Nusrat Jahan Rafi’s statement and circulating the footage on social media without her consent.

The girl, whose body was recovered from the toilet of an abandoned carriage at Kamalapur Railway Station on Monday, was raped before being murdered, a forensic doctor suspects.

Rajshahi Metropolitan Police has come up with a new approach of investigating allegations of sexual harassment by taking notes from social media discussions for gaining public confidence.

The High Court (HC) yesterday extended for one year its earlier order that granted bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a case filed over killing seven people and injuring 25-26 others by setting a bus on fire in Cumilla on February 3, 2015.