A Dhaka Court has framed charges against five persons, including three former cops of Pallabi Police Station, over death of Jonny in police custody in February 2014. The court has set May 16 to start trial proceedings.

The Election Commission has allocated the ‘torch’ polls-sign to the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) faction of Hasanul Haq Inu, weeks after a split in the party and tug-war over the symbol.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed deep shock at the casualties and destruction following the earthquakes at Kumamoto and southern Japan.

Senior journalist Shafik Rehman’s wife Taleya Rehman meets two officials of British High Commission and sought fair justice for her husband, who was arrested in a case filed for attempting to abduct and kill Sajeeb Wazed Joy.

A lighter vessel carrying around 1,400 tonnes of cement clinkers capsizes in the Bay of Bengal after it was hit by another lighter vessel.

Senior journalist Shafik Rehman has been arrested on specific allegation, ministers for law and information say. “The matter is now under investigation. If he is found innocent in the investigation, he will be released,” Law Minister Anisul Huq says.

The historic Mujibnagar Day is being observed today marking the formation of Bangladesh's first government that led the War of Liberation in 1971.

Celebrated poet, dramatist and novelist Syed Shamsul Haque was taken to London for treatment on Friday as he has been suffering from critical lung disease.

S Alam Group will have to ensure alternative livelihoods for the villagers in Gondamara of Banshkhali upazila if it is to set up a coal-based power plant there, speakers say at a views-exchange meeting.

Fear of losing livelihood and shelter on khas land has turned hundreds of landless families in coastal Gondamara union of Banshkhali upazila against the proposed coal-fired power plant of S Alam Group.

Gendaria Mahila Samity Govt Primary School has over 1,650 students but its compound is so small that just a 10th of the children face difficulty in playing in the ground during recess.

It seems, had the Federal Reserve Bank of New York been cautious about financial transactions, the hacked funds of Bangladesh Bank could easily be stopped from being transferred to banks in the Philippines and Sri Lanka, and from there to the pockets of the hackers.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed senior journalist Shafik Rehman on a five-day remand in a case for alleged attempts to abduct and

Shafik Rehman became a household name after he launched the weekly Jai Jai Din in the mid-1980s.

The Editors Guild of India expresses its deep concern at the barrage of criminal defamation and sedition cases filed against Mahfuz Anam, editor and publisher of Bangladesh’s The Daily Star and a columnist of several Indian newspapers.

Some 58 percent survivors of deadly Rana Plaza collapse incident are still traumatised and 48 percent of them remain unemployed even after three years of the tragedy, says a survey report of ActionAid.

Eminent litterateur Syed Shamsul Haq is flown to UK for treatment as he has been suffering from critical lungs disease.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia demands immediate release of journalist Shafik Rehman, who was arrested earlier today in a case filed over alleged attempts to abduct and murder Sajeeb Wazed Joy.

Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain, a Bangladeshi baker from UK, announces that she will be baking the Queen's 90th birthday cake.

Seven hours into his arrest, Shafik Rehman, a pro-BNP intellectual, is placed on a five-day remand in a case filed for alleged attempts to abduct and murder Sajeeb Wazed Joy.