Police Bureau of Investigation would be pressing charges against 16 suspects in the Feni madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi murder case today and all of them could be facing the death penalty.

Hundreds of sites in rivers around the world including in Bangladesh are polluted with antibiotics that exceed environmental safety thresholds by up to 300 times, according to research unveiled at a conference Monday.

With every Eid comes a concern: How to get home? Almost every time, the holidaymakers go through nightmarish experience on highways, thanks to traffic jams caused by poor road conditions and traffic management.

What exploded in a police pickup in the capital’s Malibagh on Sunday was an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) and its chemicals and other ingredients were powerful. The impact, however, was comparatively less as those who made the bomb were not properly trained, according to an explosive expert.

Workers of state-owned jute mills will get their arrear wages ahead of the Eid, thanks to an allocation of Tk 169.14 crore by the government.

Under the ongoing food grain procurement programme, the government is buying only 1.5 lakh tonnes of paddy from farmers, which makes up less than one percent of the total estimated production of around 1.96 crore tonnes this boro season.

A tribunal in Dhaka yesterday issued an arrest warrant for former Sonagazi OC Moazzem Hossain on charges of recording a statement of madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi on camera and releasing the footage on social media.

After their first World Cup warm-up game against Pakistan on Sunday was washed out due to rain, the Bangladesh squad practised under bright sunshine yesterday at Cardiff’s Swalec Stadium.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves Dhaka today for a 12-day visit to Japan, Saudi Arabia and Finland, amid high hopes of boosting trade and investment as well as mobilising support in addressing the Rohingya crisis.

The metro rail construction work on 8km of the capital’s key thoroughfares has made the chaotic traffic even worse, largely because steps have not been taken for better use of the narrowed down streets, experts and officials said.

Over a house in the capital’s Mirpur area, a banner hangs reading: some men in civilian clothes introducing themselves as law enforcers abducted Mohan Miah on June 10, 2018.

Bangladesh’s first World Cup warm-up match against Pakistan was washed out without a ball bowled at the Swalec Stadium in Cardiff yesterday, but it spoke to the team’s battle-readiness that a wasted day did not bother them too much.

Hours after Ataul Islam died in a road crash on October 12 last year, his family filed a case against the driver hoping to get justice. But Sub-inspector Riazul Islam got in the way.

A bomb went off near a police pickup in the capital’s Malibagh intersection last night that injured two people, including a female police officer.

A team of Police Bureau of Investigation found involvement of Moazzem Hossain, suspended officer-in-charge of Sonagazi Police Station, in recording the interrogation of madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi and sharing the footage with another person.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday filed a writ petition with the High Court challenging the legality of a government notification that says the Niko corruption case trial against her will be held at a special court inside Keraniganj Central Jail.

Travellers on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway are reaping the benefits of the newly-built second Meghna and second Gumti bridges, as they no longer have to wait for hours in horrific tailbacks at both ends of the old narrow bridges.

A group of alleged Chhatra League activists yesterday assaulted Ducsu Vice President Nurul Haque Nur and other quota reformists in Bogura.

A Pabna court yesterday sent a man to jail on charges of raping a minor girl in the district’s Bhangura upazila.

She once again stood at the Jatiya Press Club with the wish that her father would come back and embrace her.