Bangladesh is trying to communicate with the pirates, believed to be Somalians, of the hijacked Bangladeshi ship MV Abdullah, said Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud today

State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury said today that they were taking appropriate steps to safely bring back the crew members of the hijacked Bangladeshi ship MV Abdullah, but it was not possible to say when that could be done

The High Court today wanted to know the details, including names and addresses, of the labourers detained in connection with the fire incident in Dhaka's Bailey Road area that killed 46 people and injured many others

The High Court today deferred till March 18 the date for delivering a verdict on a writ petition seeking its directives to recover the Gulshan house allegedly occupied by Awami League lawmaker Abdus Salam Murshedy illegally

Say officials of company that owns vessel

Mother of the hijacked Bangladeshi ship’s chief officer urges vessel's owning firm, govt to rescue all crew members

A Dhaka court today sentenced two people to life imprisonment in the case filed over the murder of Sagira Morshed 34 years ago

Suspected Somali pirates yesterday hijacked a Bangladesh-flagged cargo ship with 23 crew members in the Indian ocean, according to the company that owns the vessel.

A man was arrested from Sylhet for raping two girls aged 8 and 10 in Narayanganj Sadar upazila, Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) said yesterday.

The Sherpur journalist, who was jailed for six months by a mobile court for alleged misconduct while seeking information from the Nokla UNO’s office on March 5, was released on bail yesterday.

At least 31 tonnes of dates were seized from a cold storage in Narayanganj’s Kanchpur area in a drive by the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection this afternoon

The Sherpur journalist, who was jailed for six months for alleged misconduct while seeking information at the office of Nokla's upazila nirbahi officer in the district on March 5, was released on bail today

A man was arrested in Sylhet for raping two girls in Narayanganj Sadar upazila, Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) said today

Rab arrest six people on charge of trading illegal weapons

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) said that they have arrested six people who were extorting money from vehicles carrying goods on the Natore-Bogura Highway under Singra upazila of Natore early today

Police recovered two bodies from a roof-top room of a five-storey building in capital's Kamarpara area of Turag

Expressing deep concern, the Editors’ Council yesterday condemned the jailing of a journalist in Sherpur for seeking information.

A journalist from Jamalpur’s Bakshiganj upazila was assaulted allegedly by supporters of a local ward councillor last evening.

A man died at a Chattogram hospital yesterday while being treated for injuries he sustained after being attacked at his home by a local ward councillor’s men, during a dispute over the due rent of a flat in the port city’s Panchlaish area.

A Joypurhat court yesterday sentenced a woman and her accomplice to death for killing her husband over a domestic dispute in Khetlal upazila of Joypurhat.