A Dhaka court yesterday rejected bail of three alleged members of banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team and sent them to jail

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday claimed that they had not found any involvement of ruling Awami League lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi in drug smuggling.

Speakers at a discussion yesterday suggested enacting a uniform family law in the country instead of religion and custom-based laws, which often discriminate against women.

Newly appointed German Ambassador in Dhaka Dr Thomas Prinz yesterday said Bangladesh needs to uphold freedom of the press and protect bloggers as blogging has become a new form of journalism.

The ongoing movement of the teachers demanding removal of the vice chancellor of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology in Sylhet took a new turn as a group of students yesterday expressed solidarity with them.

Heavy rain has deteriorated the flood situation inundating fresh areas in over a dozen districts of the North and the Northeast.

Aiming to create a network among the scholars in various fields of research, a three-day “Dhaka International Business and Social Science

Police could not arrest anyone till yesterday in connection with Jubo League activist Badal murder in Chittagong on Tuesday.

Even the areas of Dhaka with a well equipped sewerage system that usually do not get waterlogged due to rain were inundated yesterday as rainfall exceeded normal levels.

Just one hour of heavy rains led to the collapse of the capital's traffic system as most of the roads, lanes and bi-lanes were inundated with hundreds of vehicles stranded for hours yesterday, causing immense sufferings to tens of thousands of commuters. Waterlogging compelled many to walk miles after getting off buses stuck in nearly unending tailbacks in all major roads, including the Kazi Nazrul Islam avenue, Mirpur road, Manik Mia avenue, Pragati Sarani.

Anowar Hossain Mazumder, 37, a former employee of UNDP, is suffering from severe renal failure and in need of immediate kidney

Publishers of noted writer Prof Muhammad Zafar Iqbal will hold a sit-in at the Central Shaheed Minar today, protesting the assault on his

Nepalese Ambassador to Bangladesh Hari Kumar Shrestha on Monday visited the Scholastica senior campus in the capital's Mirpur.

Most of the low-lying areas of Chittagong city again went under knee- to waist-deep water after the heavy shower since Monday night.

Private launch owners yesterday put forward two new proposals that aim to make large profits, but also put passengers' lives at risk.

A Rajshahi University teacher has been barred from taking part in any examination related activities for tampering a tabulation sheet and forging a thesis paper

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), dominated by pro-BNP lawyers, yesterday demanded suspension of the results of recently held elections to Bangladesh Bar Council, and holding its re-election citing "unprecedented irregularities."

Due to a lack of proper drainage system, most of the low-lying areas have been waterlogged after only one hour of incessant rain in Rajshahi city yesterday causing untold sufferings to the dwellers.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed a bench assistant of Dhaka Second Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court, on a three-day remand in a case filed for

A prosecution witness yesterday corroborated testimonies of previous witnesses that Obaidul Haque Taher and Ataur Rahman Nani killed freedom fighter Dabir Hossain in Netrokona town during the Liberation War in 1971.