A Dhaka court has indicted Bakhtiar Alam Rony, son of ruling party Awami League lawmaker Pinu Khan, in connection with a case filed for gunning down two people in the capital’s New Eskaton area last year.

Pro-BNP intellectual Prof Emajuddin Ahmed yesterday blamed politicians for creating the ground of the 1/11 political

A mobile court yesterday fined Mohinee Auto Rice Mill Tk 20,000 for illegally using non-biodegradable polythene in Trimohini Bazar area

A man chopped and strangled his father to death over a family feud at Mahmudhabad village in Habiganj Sadar upazila

Bangladesh Coast Guard yesterday seized 2,400 kilogrammes of Hilsa fry from a passenger launch at Gopchar of sadar

Politicians, academics, and rights activists yesterday called for an end to discriminations at home and workplace against women and

A mother of four died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital after allegedly setting herself on fire yesterday while her family members alleged

Police yesterday sued 34 people including Fulgazi upazila chairman and general secretary of the upazila unit of Awami League Abdul Alim

Prof M Omar Ejaz Rahman, a renowned demographer and psychiatrist, has been reappointed Vice-Chancellor of

Jalaluddin Ahmed, former secretary of the government and a member of the Board of Trustees of East West University, died at a hospital in Singapore

Three cases were filed against students of Barisal University yesterday in connection with Wednesday's clash between the students and police near the campus over a missing cellphone that left 10 people, including three cops, injured.

Gulf nation Qatar yesterday agreed to increase the monthly salary for the skilled Bangladeshi female migrant and domestic workers from Tk 19,350 to 25,800, said a press release of the expatriates' welfare and overseas employment ministry.

A Supreme Court lawyer moves a writ petition with the High Court seeking a halt to Dhaka police’s drive to collect identification information about the city dwellers.

Sexual violence against women is still going on in the country due to impunity since the 1971 Liberation War, said speakers at a programme in the capital yesterday.

A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday in the capital sentenced a drug trader to two years' imprisonment, and fined him Tk 10 lakh for selling

The government should immediately impose restriction upon all sorts of activities that may harm the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, said experts yesterday.

Miscreants attacked the office of a local newspaper, 'Dainik Pravatbela' at Sobhanighat in Sylhet city on Tuesday night that left its staff reporter Masrur Rasel injured.

Rab is bringing the parents and an aunt of two minor siblings -- who, autopsy suggests, might have been murdered -- to Dhaka from Jamalpur. Meanwhile, no case has been filed yet over the incident. Police say they will lodge a case if the family doesn’t do so.

Dipu Moni, former foreign minister, has been elected chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Asian University for

A Chittagong court yesterday sentenced three people, including a former manager of Rupali Bank, to five year's