A five-member British cross-party parliamentary delegation yesterday arrived in Dhaka on a five-day visit to explore the scope for business and investment as well as deepen relationship with Bangladesh.

Police last morning discovered the body of an unidentified person inside a suitcase at the new bus terminal in Faridpur town’s Goalchamot area.

A readymade garment worker was beaten to death allegedly by a co-worker just outside his factory in the capital’s Dakshinkhan last morning.

BNP yesterday demanded a UN-supervised investigation into the killing of a Border Guard Bangladesh soldier by Indian Border Security Force along Benapole border area of Jashore.

Police recovered the bodies of a woman and her two children from their house in Dumuria upazila of Khulna yesterday.

At least 56 trees were felled  along the Dhaka-Barishal highway recently. The fallen giants, mostly mahogany trees, are victims of a seemingly elaborate hoax. Apparently, a forged tender authorised their demise, shrouding the incident in mystery.

Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus and three other top officials of Grameen Telecom will file an appeal today against their jail sentence.

A Bangladeshi man was gunned down by criminals in South Africa’s Johannesburg yesterday morning.

Police this morning discovered the body of an unidentified person inside a suitcase at the new bus terminal in Faridpur town’s Goalchamot area

A Bangladeshi man was gunned down by criminals in South Africa’s Johannesburg this morning

A printing press worker in Gaibandha, who did not even complete primary education, Anwar Hossain, 30, has been impersonating president, ministers, police officials, UP chairmen, actors, among others, in Facebook to chat with women and extort them

Police recovered the bodies of a woman and her two children from their house in Dumuria upazila of Khulna today

Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus and three other top officials of Grameen Telecom will file an appeal with the Labour Appellate Tribunal against the verdict of labour law violations case by a Labour Court tomorrow

A total of 14 unregistered clinics and diagnostic centres in Bagerhat have been ordered to shut down

A gang of robbers broke into the vault of an NRBC Bank's sub-branch in Palli Mangal area of Bogura's Sadar upazila last night and looted Tk 9.78 lakhs, officials

Police recovered the bodies of a mother and her son from their residence in Chatmohar upazila of Pabna yesterday morning.

National Security Intelligence (NSI) seized 14 gold bars worth Tk 1.4 crore at Shah Amanat International Airport last morning.

An investigation has found evidence that an additional superintendent of police and an inspector had physically tortured four men in custody at a police station in Shariatpur last year. 

Once upon a time, local influential people used to hire musclemen to take control of shoal land in rivers. There were fights between rival groups, and the winner would take the land and use those for agriculture.

A section of railway station staffers and an online ticket selling company aided syndicates in acquiring and distributing tickets at inflated prices. This caused ticket shortages in stations across the country.