Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said action will be taken against Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Mizanur Rahman for allegedly giving bribe to an Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) official.

Bangladesh has urged the UN member states to play an effective role for a permanent solution to the Rohingya crisis and promote an effective migration governance to ensure safe and orderly migration.

A human chain has been formed protesting the acid attack on pilot Parvez Sanjari and demanding exemplary punishment of the perpetrators.

A CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver is killed as his vehicle collides head-on with a bus in Mohammadpur Beribadh area of Dhaka.

Police recovered the bullet-hit body of an unidentified man, from Moragang area of Ashulia in the early hours of yesterday.

A Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) mobile court in Chattogram yesterday fined owners of six bus services Tk 93,000 in two separate drives.

Trawler owners in Chattogram blocked a busy thoroughfare at the Shah Amanat bridge end in the city’s Bakalia yesterday, demanding immediate withdrawal of a fishing ban.

Education Minister Dipu Moni yesterday snubbed a ruling party lawmaker’s demand of enrolling educational institutions into the government’s monthly pay order (MPO) based on lawmakers’ recommendations.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has demanded exemplary punishment for Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Director Khandaker Enamul Basir and Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Mizanur Rahman who have been accused of taking and giving bribe respectively.

A housewife succumbed to her injuries yesterday, four days after she set herself on fire after being tortured by her husband.

Protesting the age limit in BNP’s charter, a faction of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) locked the party’s central office in Nayapaltan yesterday.

A second year student of a private university was killed in a road accident in the city early yesterday.

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday urged Jatiya Oikyafront to play a bold and responsible role both in and outside the parliament.

The sensational case filed for attempting to kill Awami League leader Sheikh Hasina by planting a 76kg bomb at Kotalipara in 2000 may finally be disposed of at the High Court soon.

The National Museum of Science and Technology (NMST) has launched a new mobile learning centre, says a press release.

Almost half of the hospitals and clinics in Khulna do not follow proper medical waste management system, putting city dwellers at risk of health hazards.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed filed a case against four officials of the state-run Bangladesh Development Bank Ltd for allegedly embezzling around Tk 25 crore from the bank.

BNP lawmaker Harunur Rashid today demanded resignation of the religious affairs minister for what he said creating confusion in people’s mind over sighting the Shawwal moon this year.

A Dhaka tribunal sentences two people including a woman to life term imprisonment in a case filed for trafficking two newborn babies in Dhaka in 2006.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claims to have arrested a member of banned militant outfit Ansar Al Islam from Dhaka’s Badda area.