In an extremely unusual move, Election Commissioner Zabed Ali visited the Police Headquarters yesterday to discuss, as per official documents, security issues concerning the upcoming union parishad polls.

The cabinet yesterday approved in principle the draft of the Bangladesh Press Institute Bill, 2016, to give a complete legal shape to the Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB) and make it more time-befitting alongside improving its operations.

Parents and locals of a deceased teenage domestic help yesterday alleged that police deliberately overlooked the evidence of rape and murder on the body to save the perpetrators.

Ethnic minority leaders yesterday demanded constitutional recognition for them to ensure their rights, at a daylong

A Dhaka court yesterday accepted charges against 18 accused in a case filed over the murder of Riazul Haque Khan Milky, organising secretary of Dhaka city (south) Jubo League.

Two ice cream factories were sealed off and 40 illegal structures were demolished in Chittagong yesterday.

Six NGOs that work on legal and human rights issues yesterday launched a project to create network among legal and civic bodies at

Police have identified six to seven more suspects in connection with the recent ATM card scam, claimed Dhaka Metropolitan Police

Air Vice-Marshal Ehsanul Gani Chowdhury has been made the chairman of Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (Caab).

A section of CNG-run auto-rickshaw drivers begin their 24-hour strike this morning, causing city dwellers to suffer due to the lack of three-wheeler vehicles in different parts of Dhaka city during the morning rush hour.

An unnatural death (UD) case was filed yesterday in connection with the death of a teenage domestic help in

A Dhaka court placed suspended assistant sub-inspector Shamim Reza of Bangshal Police Station on a five-day remand

The health ministry of India banned Phensedyl and Corex cough syrups. The ministry has already approved the ban

British Council Bangladesh organised a national youth summit under its youth focused project Promoting Democratic Inclusion and

Dredging and cleaning works of canals and drains of Chittagong city is going on in full swing with an aim to mitigate

Factions of the Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) and Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) yesterday urged all the media houses

Pictorial warning on the tobacco pack must be implemented by March 19, Health Minister Mohammad Nasim said yesterday.

A vehicle ran Md Habibullah, 24, over while he was crossing a road at Technical intersection in Mirpur in the capital early yesterday,

Locals caught a brother of a union parishad chairman candidate with arms and handed him to cops at Kawkhali upazila in Pirojpur

Police arrested six activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, and five others with 11 live bombs and bomb-making materials raiding an