A South Asian rights group calls upon Bangladesh government to halt Rampal power plant construction in the Sundarbans until cleared by environmentalists.

The apex court scraps the High Court bail granted to Mahtab Uddin Minar, prime accused in Fulgazi’s Ekramul Haque murder case.

Dhaka Divisional Commissioner Zillar Rahman apologises unconditionally to the High Court for cancelling the nomination of a reserve seat candidate for the elections to Dhaka South City Corporation.

Five people are killed and eight injured, three of them critically, when a bus hit a stationed truck on Dhaka-Tangail highway in Mirzapur upazila of Tangail.

A mobile court, led by Upazila Nirbahi Officer Golam Mawala, fined a man Tk 10,000 for lifting sand from the bed of Jumuneswari River illegally in Kashibari area under Taraganj upazila on Friday.

Jamaat-e-Islami calls daylong hartal for Monday protesting the execution of their leader and war criminal Muhammad Kamaruzzaman.

Moments before the possible execution of war crime convict Kamaruzzaman the US says it is best not to proceed for any execution before the trial proceedings consistently meet all the domestic and international obligations.

Awami League and Bangladesh Chhatra League activists allegedly carry out an attack on BNP activists in Chittagong during inauguration of BNP’s election offices.

Dhaka raises concerns with New Delhi over the killing of two Bangladesh nationals by the Indian Border Security Force in Jessore.

The first group of 11 Bangladesh nationals who were stranded in Yemen arrive in Dhaka from Djibouti in an Emirates flight.

Bangladesh has so far evacuated 272 Bangladesh nationals, including five women and five children, with the assistance of an Indian ship.

A court here yesterday rejected bail petitions of two accused and sent them to jail in a case filed for killing Jubo League leader Warish Ali

Local workers forcibly stopped operation of all the farms of Kazi Farms Ltd in the district on Wednesday demanding immediate reappointment of sacked workers at the farms and cancellation of the transfer of local workers to different set-ups of the organisation in other districts.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested 13 people when they were going to India illegally through Balurmath Putkhali border

An employee of Power Development Board (PDB) in the district was electrocuted yesterday afternoon due to the alleged irresponsibility of

Two youths were stabbed in Kazir point area under Sadar upazila town in Sunamganj district yesterday afternoon. The injured are Sadiqur

Police yesterday arrested the prime accused in a case for abducting and killing a six-year-old schoolboy in Chhatak upazila of Sunamganj district.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested a ticket black marketer at a tea stall near Jamalpur railway station in the town yesterday.

Four absconding madrasa teachers, also local leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami, have been receiving montly salary bills signed by presidents of the institutions' governing bodies loyal to the ruling Awami League despite an order issued by the district education officer (DEO) to hold up their salary.

Some more stranded Bangladeshis will be taken to Djibouti from the war-torn Yemen today.