Unidentified miscreants have allegedly looted around Tk 30,000 from a Durga temple in Demra area of Dhaka.

Unknown miscreants have shot a man in Mohakhali Wireless Gate area of Dhaka.

Brig Gen (retd) AKM Azizul Haque AMC passed away following a cardiac arrest at Combined Military Hospital Dhaka on Friday. He retired in 1990 as the chief psychiatrist of Bangladesh Armed Forces.

The Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) is going to provide pure drinking water at a nominal price through two vending machines to be set up on a pilot basis at water pumps in Mirpur and Fakirapool.

The inception meeting of the 18-month Brac-Chevron pilot partnership project "Alternative Livelihood" for the socio-economic development of the people around the Chevron gas fields was held in Sylhet Zila Parishad Conference Hall yesterday.

A boy died after being found in Gagla village under Mymensingh's Gouripur upazila last night bearing injuries police believe were inflicted with sharp weapons.

Shirin Akter, a professor of the Bangla department, has been appointed as Pro Vice-Chancellor of Chittagong University yesterday.

The US Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Assistant Secretary for International Affairs Alan Bersin will lead an interagency

The High Court yesterday stayed the process for holding election to the Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (Baira) for a month.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman Iqbal Mahmud yesterday, without elaborating, claimed that problems arose due to non-enforcement of the anti-graft body's powers, which were adequate.

A fire that broke out in the Sundarbans under Chandpai Range of Bagerhat on Sunday afternoon damaged foliage on 1.66 acres of the mangrove forest , said Belayet Hossain, assistant forest conservator of the range yesterday.

US Secretary of State John Kerry will present the 2016 Secretary of State's International Women of Courage Award to a group of extraordinary women from around the world today at the US Department of State, a US State Department release said yesterday.

Four years after taking the initiative, the government yesterday approved in principle the draft of "The Accreditation Council Law, 2016" with a view to ensuring standards of higher education in the country.

The International Crimes Tribunal-1, led by Justice Anwarul Haque, yesterday recorded the testimony of Noor Hossain, the investigation officer of the case filed against three Habiganj men for allegedly committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.

Reckless driving killed three people, including a woman and her five-year-old son, and injured 30 others at Mohipur near Dairy Farm area of Sherpur upazila in Bogra yesterday.

Child marriage prevalence rate was lower in households where at least one parent had education beyond secondary level, found a research by the department of Population Sciences of Dhaka University and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

The body of a school student with his throat slit was found in their rented house in the capital's Dakkhin Dania yesterday.

Over two months have passed following an alleged abduction of a former Bangladesh Chhatra League president of the capital's Rampura Thana unit whose mother yesterday said she was appearing before the press for the fourth time and now seeking Prime Minister Sheikh

The Election Commission (EC) has asked the Satkhira superintendent of police and officers-in-charge (OC) of five police stations of the district to appear before it tomorrow to give statements about the irregularities that took place in the recent Union Parishad (UP) polls.

The just concluded Union Parishad election has been questionable because of "nomination trading" by political parties, violation of the electoral code by candidates and supporters, and disputed role of the Election Commission, a civil society organisation said yesterday.