Frequent power outage is hampering rock production at Madhyapara Granite Mining Company Ltd (MGMCL) in the district.

Police are yet to arrest the prime accused in two rape cases in Phulpur and Iswarganj upazilas of the district.

Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) Vice-Chancellor Prof Aminul Haque Bhuiyan will go on a two-month leave amid the ongoing protest at the university in demand of his resignation.

Mung bean farmers in the district are happy with bumper yield and good market price of the popular food crop this season.

A court here yesterday sentenced a youth to death and two other to life imprisonment for throwing acid on a schoolgirl in 2012.

Police rescued a schoolgirl of the district from Kaliakoir area in Gazipur district on Tuesday, over two months after her abduction.

State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says militant groups might have been involved in the Savar heist but the motive was unclear.

The High Court starts a hearing on a seven-year-old writ petition challenging the legality of Niko corruption case filed against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.

Awami League-backed mayoral candidate in the Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) AJM Nasir Uddin unveils 36-point manifesto with promises to upgrade it as a green megacity.

Garment workers in Bangladesh face poor working conditions and anti-union tactics by employers including assaults on union organisers, Human Rights Watch says.

Sans any unusual activity anywhere in the country, it was difficult to realise that a hartal sponsored by the BNP-led 20-party alliance is underway.

The first resistance fight against the occupation troops in Pabna in March-April 1971 is one of many stories that makes our Liberation War glorious.

Fifty villages in the district Lalmonirhat are known as 'vegetable villages' because all the farmers in these villages specialize in vegetable farming round the year and they have been earning good returns as well.

A court here on Monday sentenced five people to death for killing a youth in 2009.

A man went missing as a boat capsized in the River Kacha under Bhandaria upazila of the district on Monday.

A farmer was electrocuted at Sonatola village in Sadullapur upazila of the district yesterday.

Robbers shoot dead seven including manager of Bangladesh Commerce Bank, Kathgora branch in Ashulia during a broad daylight robbery at the bank, cops say. Angry mob lynch a robber after capturing two while fleeing.

BNP-led 20-party alliance announces countrywide hartal for Wednesday protesting today’s attack on BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s motorcade. Dhaka and Chittagong metropolitan areas will remain out of the hartal purview.

High Court directs officer-in-charge of Savar Police Station to submit a progress report before it by April 26 on trial proceedings of the cases filed over incident of Rana Plaza collapse that killed 1,135 people in April 2013.

Saudi Arabia expatriate Dulal Miah and his son have remained traceless since their abduction from Hatibeer village in Bhaluka upazila under the district early Thursday.