Dhaka Power Distribution Company Ltd (DPDC) during a three-week taskforce drive until yesterday fined 10 businesses and individuals Tk 14 crore in penalty and dues for pilferage of electricity, said an official handout.

Dissent is never stifled in a democratic nation, said human rights activist Sultana Kamal yesterday at a two-day long dialogue with journalists and human rights defenders.

A Chittagong court yesterday granted bail to two lawyers, who were arrested over funding a Chittagong-based militant outfit, Shaheed Hamza Brigade, in a case filed under anti-terrorism act with Hathazari Police Station.

The High Court yesterday directed the government to stop hill cutting at Dinarpur of Habiganj, and to take appropriate legal steps against people responsible for cutting hills there.

Referring to the August 21 grenade attack, Awami League (AL) Presidium Member Suranjit Sengupta told a Dhaka court yesterday that such a government-sponsored armed attacked on unarmed people never occurred in Bangladesh in the past.

The High Court yesterday questioned the legality of Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission's latest decision to hike gas and electricity prices.

A joint director of the State Bank of Pakistan was sent back from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital yesterday because she did not have visas to visit Bangladesh.

The High Court yesterday directed the deputy commissioner of Madaripur to exhume the body of Happy Akhtar, 14, who was murdered allegedly after rape this August.

Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) has uploaded 2011 census data which will be launched today at the capital's Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel to ensure

The High Court yesterday issued a rule asking the authorities concerned of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal

Around 70 percent of the treatment of eye diseases could be provided at upazila levels, if every upazila has developed

The High Court issues a rule asking the authorities of icddr,b to explain under what authorities the human resource director has been holding her office.

Twenty female judges of the country in a daylong seminar yesterday discussed the challenges of implementing the domestic violence

Bangladesh's defence ministry has received five Mi-171Sh helicopters under a state credit contract of late 2013 from

Democracy is affected when powerful people crave more power, Editor of Prothom Alo Matiur Rahman told the newspaper's 17th founding

Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu yesterday urged the mass media to refrain from publishing content that might directly or indirectly

An US delegation led by Counsellor of the US Department of State Ambassador Thomas Shannon will arrive in Dhaka today on a one-and-

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina once again set an example by paying tolls for her convoy of 52 vehicles while crossing Mayor Mohammad

Massive development work of road and rail infrastructure is underway to optimise benefits of the Padma bridge, said Road Transport

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said that by building the Padma bridge with local funding, Bangladesh wants to show the world it is now capable of implementing any mega project on its own. Addressing the groundbreaking ceremony of the Padma Multipurpose Bridge Project and river training work at Janjira, she said her government's decision to implement this dream project with own funding was a challenge.