The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police has sued M Tajul Islam, chairman of Aziz Co-operative Commerce and Finance Credit Society Limited, in a money laundering case on charges of embezzling Tk 300 crore and siphoning off around a hundred crore

Teachers and students of Dhaka University yesterday demanded removal of Kazi Wasi Uddin, additional secretary to the fisheries and livestock ministry, for his remarks over the recent study on milk conducted by the university’s pharmacy faculty.

The work of much-anticipated Padma Bridge witnessed a major development yesterday, as construction of all 294 piles of the bridge were completed by last night.

Suraiya Ahsan breathed her last at Queens General Hospital, New York, on Friday, aged 80, says a press release.

Several thousand employees of the municipalities from across the country yesterday staged a sit-in in front of Jatiya Press Club, demanding their salaries be paid from state funds, like other government employees’.

Jahangirnagar University (JU) BCS Officers Forum has been formed recently, says a press release.

Traders and businessmen in Old Dhaka’s Nawabpur area yesterday demanded capital punishment for the rapist and killer of Wari schoolgirl Samia Afrin Saima.

Five meritorious students of the mathematics department at Dhaka University have been awarded the AF Mujibur Rahman Foundation Gold Medal for their outstanding academic performances.

Three Bangladeshi promising young professionals -- two journalists and a communication officer -- have secured places at Future News Worldwide (FNW), a global forum for the next generation media.

A Barishal court has sentenced two men to life imprisonment and fined each Tk 1 lakh for raping and killing a sixth grader in 2012.

A former Union Parishad member was found dead in Fatikchhari upazila of Chattogram yesterday two days after he had gone missing.

South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon has expressed his government’s interest to invest in some emerging sectors of Bangladesh like infrastructure, power, information and communication technology, construction, ship building and energy for boosting business volume of the two countries.

Law Minister Anisul Huq has said the government will take all necessary steps so that nobody can misuse the digital security law.

Three persons are sent to jail in a case filed for torturing two minor house helps, who tried to escape torture by their employers in Dhanmondi.

High Court has directed the authorities concerned to take effective steps in 24 hours on priority basis to destroy Aedes mosquitos and take other measures to prevent spread of dengue, chikungunya and other similar diseases in Dhaka city.

Bilateral talks between Bangladesh and South Korea begins at the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) in Dhaka.

The High Court (HC) has wanted to know the action taken over the rape of a physically challenged child and the settlement of the issue at Tk 14,000 in an arbitration in Fulbari upazila of Dinajpur.

A minor house help was injured after falling from the sixth floor of a 13-storey building in Dhanmondi while he and another house help were trying to escape torture by their employers, said police.

The regional round of Bangladesh History Olympiad were held on Jahangirnagar University (JU) campus on Friday with much enthusiasm.

Activists from several organisations yesterday demanded quick trial of child rapes and death penalty for the rapists. To raise the demands, they formed separate human chains in front of Jatiya Press Club.