The number of recorded cases in Dhaka district has nearly halved in the last one year, a "success" which police attributed to a new initiative known as tele-policing.

There is little chance for inhabitants of former 111 Indian enclaves to get enrolled as voters this year as the upazilas, union parishads and wards are yet to be demarcated incorporating the new areas.

Leaders of a faction of the Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) demanded formation of ninth wage board and announcement of the New Year bonus for journalists and employees of the newspaper industry of the country.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday said fine for illegal parking and over speeding will be raised.

Fifty-four South Asians, including 35 Bangladeshis, seeking asylum in the US ended their six-day hunger strike at a detention centre in El Paso, Texas on October 20 following two days' negotiations between Dhaka and Washington, said diplomatic sources.

Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury, a former Supreme Court judge, comes under attack in London, says his daughter Nadia Choudhury in her Facebook account.

Locals of Manikdi in Matikata blocked Kalshi New Road for about two hours up to 8:00pm yesterday after a student was killed in a road accident, said police.

Senior BNP leader Nazrul Islam Khan yesterday said though the government was conspiring to keep their top leaders away from future polls by “punishing them in false cases”, “big leaders were not necessary for winning any polls”.

Three ship-breaking workers, who were injured in a gas-tank explosion at RA Ship-breaking Yard in Chittagong's

Gonotantrik Bam Morcha yesterday announced holding a programme on November 5 to express solidarity with others demanding cancellation of the coal-based Rampal power plant project to preserve the Sundarbans, situated some 14 kilometres away.

The Gono Bishwabidyalay authorities yesterday suspended BBA first year student Bikrom Moni Das in an allegation of stabbing a girl to death at her school gate at Boardghar in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur on October 13.

The condition of BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka, who is being treated in the US for cancer in the rib, has been deteriorating since the last couple of months.

Agitating medical college admission seekers will hold a solidarity rally at the capital's Shahbagh at 4:00pm tomorrow, renewing the demand for rerun of the entrance test.

Hindu devotees yesterday celebrated Kumari Puja, a major attraction of Maha Ashtami, amid fanfare at Ramkrishna Mission's puja mandaps across the country.

Bangladesh’s garment exports would more than double if the country could capture 20 percent of China’s share in a year, as China has been shifting its manufacturing base to other sectors, according to a World Bank study.

Counsel for the key accused Kamrul Islam yesterday completed cross-examinations of 11 witnesses in 13-year-old

Customs intelligence officials seized around 0.5kg of gold, 42 mobile phone sets and 20 cartons of foreign cigarettes

The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined five washing factories Tk 27 lakh in the capital's Rupnagar for

Prof Beggzadi Mahmuda Nasir, founder principal of Central Women's College and founder vice chancellor of Central Women's University, is undergoing

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said the government has taken an initiative to collect