A man was arrested on Sunday in Bishwashpara of Habiganj for allegedly raping an eight-year-old girl on Wednesday.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police yesterday slapped a ban on holding outdoor celebrations of Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangla New

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader is dissatisfied at the way BRTC is operating and blamed its depot managers for the dismal state.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police reiterates the restrictions on this year’s Bangla New year celebration that will include curb on outdoor activities after 5:00pm.

The Supreme Court yesterday deferred till May 3 the hearing on the petition filed by condemned war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami seeking a review of its judgement that upheld his death penalty for his wartime offences.

Land owners within a 300-metre radius along the fringe of Hatirjheel project would now be able to build tall buildings up to permissible heights as per building rule, a seven-member ministerial committee for review of Dhaka's Detailed Area Plan (DAP) decided yesterday.

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat, Danish Ambassador Hanne Fugl Eskjær, Brazilian Ambassador Wanja

The Supreme Court yesterday upheld its earlier order of scrapping the High Court's acquittal of Disaster Management and Relief Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya in a corruption case that sentenced him to 13 years' of imprisonment.

The celebration of this Pahela Baishakh would be more joyous for the government officials as they have received a festival bonus for the first time for the Bangla New Year.

The High Court bench of Justice Syed Muhammad Dastagir Husain and Justice AKM Shahidul Huq yesterday fixed tomorrow for delivering

Experts and stakeholders yesterday pointed out that many crucial issues, like speed limits, accident probes, safety and victims' compensation, and their related aspects have been missed out in a recently drafted “Bangladesh Road Transport Act-2016”.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday underscored the need for developing the country's prisons as correction centres so that prisoners could leave their dark past and return to the normal life after serving their jail terms, reports UNB.

On the occasion of the first death anniversary of Dr Nuruzzaman Khokon, a free medical camp was organised in Norshingdi yesterday.

Advocate Ekhlak Hossain, former public prosecutor of Rajshahi Bar Council and founder president of Rajshahi Metropolitan BNP, died at a hospital in the capital on Friday, aged 75.

A worker of PHP Glass factory died in a workplace accident in Barabkunda area of Sitakunda upazila in Chittagong on Saturday night.

Nagorik Chhatra Oikya and Nagorik Jubo Oikya jointly staged a sit-in on Saturday in front of the capital's Jatiya Press Club, demanding immediate release of their imprisoned leader Mahmudur Rahman Manna.

The qulkhwani of Amena Begum, widow of journalist Rezaul Huq and mother of prominent Rabindra singer Mita Huq, will be held in her Dhanmondi residence in the capital after the maghrib prayers today.

Leaders of organisations representing ethnic minority communities yesterday demanded that the government ensures trials of killings in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, including the Logang killings in 1992.

AKM Chabizar Rahman; a lecturer of Shariakandi Abdul Mannan College, former vice-chairman of Shariakandi Upazila Parishad and Awami

Bangladesh Noujan Sramik Federation yesterday declared starting an indefinite strike from 12:00am on April 20 demanding Tk 10,000 as the minimum wages for water transport workers.