A parliamentary body sends back a bill to the Cabinet Division, seeking an increase in remuneration and allowances of lawmakers comparing to bureaucrats.

Freedom of expression came under severe attack in Bangladesh in 2015, Human Rights Watch said in its World Report 2016.

Government college teachers call off work abstention following assurance of fulfilling some of their demands.

The prevailing gas crisis in Dhaka city will persist for three or four days, State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid says.

P Hasina asks police to deal with injustice with strong hands even if it is done by any politically influential person. She advises police to communicate with her if the offender is a leader of Awami League.

There is no legal bar now to file a case over the incident of police torture on a Bangladesh Bank official, says Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon.

In a move to save the major rivers around Dhaka, the government today made Effluent Treatment Plants a mandatory factor for the factories.

A court in Narayanganj denies bail for 11 accused including the prime accused Nur Hossain in the sensational seven-murder case.

Around 275 to 300 roads under will be repaired soon, says DSCC Mayor Sayeed Khokon.

A war crimes tribunal in Dhaka rejects bail pleas for three war crimes accused who were allegedly involved in war crimes during 1971.

Bangladesh slips one place to rank as the 13th most corrupt country in the world, Transparency International reveals in its global graft index. In South Asia, Bangladesh stands as the second most graft affected country.

Bangladesh win the opening game of the ICC U19 CWC 2016 in Chittagong against South Africa by 43 runs today.

The hunt begins for the eleventh time…16 countries will contend for the coveted ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup trophy and the tag of ‘World Champions’ in Bangladesh from January 27 to February 14, 2016.

The teachers of government colleges across the country start three-day work abstention demanding removal of “discrimination” in the eighth pay scale.

The government will remove all barriers to make the expatriate Bangladeshis’ investment in the country smooth, the expatriates’ welfare and overseas employment minister says.

The Supreme Court has been requested to uphold the High Court order that directed police to record a case for police torture on Bangladesh Bank official Golam Rabby.

The International Republican Institute (IRI) says in a new survey report that Bangladeshis has been increasingly becoming optimistic about their better economic future.

One of the most beloved actresses in Bangladesh, Parveen Sultana Diti who has been diagnosed with brain cancer has been brought back to Dhaka from India and admitted to United Hospital in Gulshan.

Newly appointed Jatiya Party Co-Chairman GM Quader says people do not consider the party as an opposition in the parliament and stresses the need for his party's ministers to step down from the cabinet.

Unidentified miscreants shoot a bKash distributor and snatch Tk 2 lakh from him in Hazaribagh area of Dhaka.