A man, brutally tortured allegedly by a moneylender and his family members at the latter’s house at Baluadanga of Dinajpur Municipality, is groaning in pain at M Abdur Rahim Medical College Hospital.

A Sirajganj court yesterday sentenced six people to life term imprisonment for raping a girl.

A woman was strangled in Dewanganj upazila on Wednesday.

The district administration on Wednesday handed over a piece of land to members of small ethnic community Mushohar in Thakurgaon Sadar upazila.

Information Minister Hasan Mahmud says the Mass Media Employees (Services Conditions) Bill will soon be placed before the Cabinet to bring all media people, including those in electronic media, under a legal protection.

Around 10,000 Bangladeshis with Umrah visas remain uncertain about performing their pilgrimage as the Saudi government has imposed a temporary ban on foreigners’ entry to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will investigate the alleged illegal wealth amassed by expelled Jubo Mohila League leader Shamima Nur Papia, ACC Chairman Iqbal Mahmood says.

A Cox’s Bazar court has framed charges against 97 alleged yaba peddlers in a case filed under the narcotics control act.

A Bangladeshi aspirant pilgrim will have to spend a minimum of Tk 3,61,800 to perform hajj this year under private management, around Tk 17,000 more than the previous year.

The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) has raised the power tariff by 5.3 percent at retail and 8.4 percent at wholesale levels.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asked the newly-elected mayors and councillors of the two Dhaka city corporations to pay special attention to keep mosquitoes in check -- particularly Aedes -- so that the insects do not “eat up their votes”.

Doctors confirm that Textiles and Jute Minister Golam Dastagir Gazi has not been infected with the novel coronavirus.

The High Court rejects a petition filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia seeking bail on health and humanitarian grounds in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case.

Twenty-three Bangladeshi nationals have been evacuated from China's Wuhan city -- epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak -- on a special Indian flight which landed in Delhi today.

Influential locals have long been encroaching on three large government ponds in Mohipur union of Kalapara upazila and the union land office made a list of 52 grabbers in August last year.

The Regional Spices Research Centre in Magura has recently distributed among farmers 300 kg of seeds of newly developed Bari-5 variety of onion that can be grown all the year round.

A mobile court sentenced two men to six months’ imprisonment each for stealing earth from a government canal in Baniachong upazila of Habiganj district on Tuesday.

A young boy and his sister drowned in a pond in Manikganj town yesterday when they went there to bathe.

Two people have been killed in Manikganj and Dinajpur, report our correspondents.

Lalmonirhat farmers are harvesting potato in a happy mood as the crop has good prices this season.