A group of former leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League of Islamic University (IU) yesterday locked the administrative

A man died after being electrocuted at Zirabo in Ashulia, outside the capital, yesterday.

The High Court yesterday granted anticipatory bail to former planning minister Air Vice-Marshal (retd) AK Khandker for six weeks in a defamation case.

Adulterated food intake has long-term adverse effect on human body but in Bangladesh the effect cannot be specified due to a lack of

The High Court orders authorities to take action within a week against those responsible for encroaching Gulshan Lake in Dhaka.

Around 53 mobile phone sets and Tk 53,000 were looted from a showroom of Walton in Station Road area of Rangpur city early yesterday.

A Barisal court yesterday sentenced a man to death for killing his maternal uncle over a land dispute.

Aggrieved at being left out, a faction of Bangladesh Chhatra League beat up the new president of Syed Amir Ali Hall at Rajshahi University yesterday.

A female student of Chittagong University (CU) was injured as the university shuttle train hit her while she was talking over her mobile phone at Sholoshahar Railway Station in the port city yesterday.

Master's students of the English department of Dhaka University yesterday besieged the vice chancellor's office demanding adjournment of their first semester final examination scheduled to start today.

A section of teachers at the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (Sust) yesterday staged a sit-in in front of the administrative building, reiterating their demand for removal of Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Md Aminul Haque Bhuyan.

We are into the fourth day since three wagons of a train, each carrying 25,000 litres of furnace oil, plunged into a canal in Boakhali upazila of Chittagong, dangerously close to the Karnaphuli River.

In separate drives yesterday, police and a mobile court in Chittagong city seized a huge amount of expired Tang, a brand of powdered beverage, and fined eight shop owners for various irregularities while a Barisal mobile court destroyed shrimps mixed with expired fruit jelly.

It has been five days since a BGB Nayek was abducted by the Myanmar border forces -- the BGP. He has not been returned till going to press.

Government and transport operators are preparing to take precautionary measures for ensuring a safe and hassle-free journey of Eid holidaymakers.

In line with 400-year-long tradition of Dhaka city, over 100 makeshift shops were set up soon after Zohr prayers at the iftar market in Old Dhaka's Chawkbazar with tantalising iftar dishes on the third day of Ramadan.

A defence lawyer yesterday read out two prosecution witnesses' statements on the charge of war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury killing Natun Chandra Singha during the Liberation War.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday told parliament that the government had prioritised seven road projects after the signing of the motor vehicles agreement for establishing road connectivity among Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal.

In continuation of their protest, public university teachers held a press conference at Dhaka University Club yesterday, renewing their four-point demand asking the government to even out salaries, benefits, and the status between professors and secretary-level officials.

Workers of vessels carrying sand in Narayanganj went on an indefinite strike demanding a stop to “extortion and attacks” on them yesterday.