Torrential rain across the country yesterday crippled city life, submerging streets and causing daylong gridlocks in Chittagong and Dhaka.

The wife of a businessman, who was allegedly abducted a week ago in the capital's Uttara, sought the prime minister's intervention from a press briefing yesterday.

Over 1,000 families living in North and East Kazipara in the capital have been facing a severe water crisis for about two months.

Both the kidneys of Md Ali Hossain, 17, who passed the SSC examinations this year, have been damaged.

The authorities of Chittagong University yesterday urged the people living in the risky hill slopes of the campus to shift to safer places.

ARM Asifur Rahman of Prothom Alo and Lalon Mahmud of The Daily Sun have been elected president and general secretary of Dhaka University Journalists'

Hours of traffic diversion and a few closed streets around Gono Bhaban create a traffic mess, causing thousands of city dwellers to miss iftar at home.

Continual shower since late June has left major thoroughfares in Chittagong city in a dilapidated state with numerous potholes and craters which are

Some college aspirants and their guardians demonstrated before Viqarunnisa Noon School and College yesterday, protesting the

A large number of plainclothes police officers will be deployed at highways around the capital this Eid to prevent extortion by a section

Rajshahi district has also started witnessing traffic jam in this Eid season which is a rare scenario for the region but a very usual one for

Police found the body of an unidentified newborn baby boy stuffed inside a medicine carton on the Dhaka International Trade Fair premises in the capital's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar yesterday.

Pictures of wheat infested with insects published in some newspapers are not of wheat imported from Brazil, Food Minister Qamrul Islam

A four-story under-construction building tilted and fell on three shanties at Suvaddha jheel in South Keraniganj last night.

Police recovered the decomposed body of a seven-year-old boy from a pond beside his house at Baherchor of Savar, outside the capital, yesterday six days after he went missing.

A Narayanganj court yesterday framed charges against six people, including Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami, Bangladesh (Huji-B) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan, in a case

The High Court yesterday ordered the authorities concerned to submit a list of structures, which were built filling up historical Lakutia canal, known as Rayer Khal, in Barisal, in six weeks.

Students of different private universities and medical colleges yesterday wearing black badges staged a rally in the capital's Dhanmondi, demanding cancellation of the recently imposed VAT (value added tax) of 7.5 per cent on private education.

Six young Bangladeshi mathematicians will participate in the 56th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), to be held in Thailand's Chiang Mai on

A group of youths have gone on rampage near Dhaka’s Titumir College in Mohakhali and vandalised several vehicles this afternoon.