For unemployed 25-year-old Foysal Hossain, the job of a receptionist at an overseas institution with a monthly pay package worth around Tk 80,000 was a godsend opportunity.

The food ministry is going to be tougher on hoarding as it proposes capital punishment or life imprisonment against the offenders.

A local Awami League leader has assaulted a school headmaster in Kurigram's Rowmari over the recruitment of teachers.

A former college principal was hacked to death by unidentified criminals in Lalmonirhat’s Patgram upazila yesterday.

A journalist received a death threat from a rice dealer in Tangail yesterday.

Police have arrested a convict who remained absconded for 19 years after killing her pregnant mother.

Police yesterday recovered the body of a schoolboy at Ratankandi union in Sirajganj Sadar.

The Rohingya man who got shot during last week’s gunfight near the Bangladesh-Myanmar border yesterday claimed that he was a member of the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation, a militant group of Myanmar.

The boy discovered in a cargo container in Malaysia’s Port Klang on January 17 identifies himself as Fahim and he may be of Bangladeshi or Rohingya origin.

Police in Narsingdi have allegedly beaten up four madrasa students after their teacher called law enforcers to discipline them.

The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) detained two police constables with phensedyl in their possession in Lalmonirhat.

The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) arrested two more people, and identified a BCL leader as the prime suspect in the Rajeev murder committed six years ago.

Pritom Das, a leader of left-leaning organisation Rashtra Sangskar Andolan, was freed from jail on bail yesterday, 131 days after he was arrested in a case filed under the Digital Security Act for “hurting religious sentiment”.

A Rangpur court yesterday sentenced a man to death for killing his wife for dowry 16 years ago in Pirganj upazila.

Police arrested four senior bankers including three Islami Bank officials in connection with a case filed over plastering posters and making social media posts to defame the owners of Chattogram-based S Alam Group.

Tension has been high along Tambru border in Bandarban as gun battle between two Rohingya militant groups resumed yesterday morning at a refugee camp on the no-man’s-land.

Police yesterday handed over the body of a yarn trader, allegedly tortured to death in police custody in Gazipur, to his family without performing an autopsy.

Police arrested four senior bankers including three Islami Bank officials in connection with a case filed over plastering posters and making social media posts to defame the owners of Chattogram-based S Alam Group.

The High Court today summoned the director general (DG) of Directorate General of Medical Education (DGME) to appear before it over non-compliance of its order for producing some documents regarding admission of a medical student.

A cameraperson working for private television channel NTV alleged that police took the memory card of his camera when he was recording the detention of BNP men in Chattogram.