Bodies of two people were found hanging in Dinajpur and Mymensingh districts yesterday and the day before.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested two people with 2.94kg gunpowder in Hakimpur upazila of the district on Tuesday night.

Detectives have arrested a Jamaat-e-Islami activist who, they say, issued death threats to 153 eminent citizens, sometimes masquerading as the so-called Islamic State, over the last one and a half years.

Porimol Joydhor, a sacked teacher of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College, was sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment for raping a Class X student in 2011, ending a 39-month legal battle in the sensational case. The Fourth Tribunal for Prevention of Women and Children Repression in Dhaka also fined him Tk 50,000, payable within 90 days, in default of which he will have to serve six more months in jail.

The three-day traditional Raas Mela begins at Dublar Char Island near the Sundarbans today amid tight security.

An Islami Chhatra Shibir activist was beaten to death allegedly by Bangladesh Chhatra League men yesterday afternoon at MM College in Jessore.

A fugitive convict in the sensational torture-to-murder case of 13-year-old Samiul Alam Rajon surrenders before a Sylhet court.

Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB) of Joypurhat 3 Battalion seized at least 1,95,000 illegal cow fattening tablets in Hakimpur upazila of the

Salauddin Quader Chowdhury was an embodiment of the hatred and brutality the country suffered during the Liberation War.

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam says the government is not bothered by today’s statement issued by HRW over the trial of death row convict war criminals Mojaheed and SQ Chy.

Robbers looted valuables from three houses at Kisundi village in Sadar upazila early yesterday.

The government has cancelled licences of 69 hajj agencies for trafficking people in the guise of Umrah pilgrims to Saudi Arabia last year.

A record number of 5,455 Bangladeshis studied in universities in the US over the course of 2014-2015 academic year, according to a new finding.

Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif hopes that the decision over banning Jamaat-e-Islami will be finalised by March next year.

At least 72 BNP and Jamaat-Shibir men were arrested during special drives by law enforcers in Chittagong, Pirojpur, Jhenidah, and Chapainawabganj on Tuesday night and early yesterday, report our correspondents.

Alleged extortionists killed a man at Underchar village in Noakhali Sadar upazila yesterday morning.

A mobile court here yesterday sentenced a youth to one year's imprisonment for stalking a schoolgirl in Gaibandha Sadar upazila.

Eminent writer Hasan Azizul Haque received a death threat over the phone from an unknown caller yesterday reportedly for his views on freedom of expression.

Parliament passes “Development Surcharge and Levy (Impose and Collection)” bill aiming at collecting one percent surcharge on the use of mobile phone services.

Unidentified criminals hacked a khadem of a mazar at Hatikhana in the district's Saidpur municipality area on Thursday evening.