Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif has seen BNP-Jamaat’s conspiracy behind the recent farmers’ protest by setting fire on paddy filed over drastic fall of paddy price and said they will hatch a conspiracy whenever they will get a chance.

A mobile court seizes fake and unauthorised medicine worth around Tk one crore in Mitford area of Old Dhaka.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam tells the Supreme Court that life imprisonment means jail sentence until the natural death of the convict as per the relevant provisions of the Penal Code.

A fire breaks out at a garments factory in Chattogram's Export Processing Zone (EPZ).

The High Court directs the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) to submit its lab test reports conducted on 93 more food items to this court on June 16.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina calls Indian Premier Narendra Modi and extended heartiest congratulations to him on his party’s landslide victory in the Indian general elections.

Crisis management core committee decides to complete the disbursement of Eid festival allowance and salary of the month of May to the garment workers by May 30 and June 2 respectively.

The Parliament Secretariat Commission approves a Tk 328.22 crore budget for Parliament to spend on its development and non-development expenditures for the next fiscal year (2019-20).

Three committees of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) will remain vigilant in three key bus stations of Dhaka from May 30 to June 4 for a hassle-free journey of Eid-ul-Fitr holidaymakers.

Rapid Action Battalion in a drive arrested seven people from Darussalam area of the capital for their alleged involvement in fraudulence through online shopping platforms on social media.

High Court has summoned the chairman of Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA) for not complying with its directive to remove 52 substandard food items from the market.

Speedy Trial tribunal-1 has awarded death penalty to four people for killing one Monir Hossain and cutting the dead body into seven pieces in 2013.

Four members of a family including two minors have been killed in an explosion caused by gas line leak in Gazipur city, police say.

Twelve fallen peacekeepers from Bangladesh will be honoured by the United Nations on Friday, when it will observe the International Day of UN Peacekeepers.

Four people were killed and another was injured in road accidents in three districts in the last two days, according to reports from our correspondents.

The Department of Environment (DoE) in Chattogram fined Karnaphuli Drydock Tk one crore for damaging the environment by building vessel at its dockyard at Anwara upazila without any approval yesterday.

A mobile court yesterday destroyed 400 maunds of mangoes that were allegedly ripened using chemicals, from Jatrabari fruit wholesale market in the capital.

Kamal Khera, parliamentary secretary to Canadian minister of international development, yesterday announced close to $100 million in humanitarian and development initiatives to help the most vulnerable people affected by the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh, said a press release from the High Commission of Canada in Dhaka.

The High Court yesterday asked the government to explain in four weeks why it should not be directed to take steps for installing fire extinguishers in all public vehicles including busses and minibuses and private cars to prevent fire accidents.

The investigation into the much-talked about Biman aircraft hijacking attempt case by one Polash Ahmed on February 24 at Chattogram Shah Amanat International Airport has allegedly been hindered due to non-cooperation of Polash’s “former” wife, yesteryear film actress Samsun Nahar Shimla.