Five members of a family suffer burn injuries in a fire that broke out due to gas line explosion at a house in Purba Ashkona area of Dhaka.

A senior World Bank official has met Finance Minister AMA Muhith in Peru and discussed a new financing scheme of $1.9 billion.

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has hailed Bangladesh's efforts to integrate more women in the workforce and singled it out as an

Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr Atiur Rahman has been awarded with "Central Bank Governor of the Year 2015, Asia".

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is conspiring from abroad to destabilise the country through killing foreigners living in Bangladesh.

A person is killed two others are injured after a wall collapsed on them in Old Dhaka’s Bongshal area.

People of Bangladesh are religious, but not bigots and they do not support religious extremism, says BNP.

World Bank chief hails empowerment of women in Bangladesh, recognising the country as a model in women’s progress in the world. Women participation in the country's workforce has the potential of adding 1.8% to GDP over the next decade, he says.

Protestors demand for an independent probe into allegations of question leak that marred this year’s medical and dental admission tests.

Three Malaysian citizens are held with gold bars weighing 45 kilogrammes at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

A man is killed when a speeding bus hit a rickshaw carrying him at Malibagh in Dhaka this morning.

Police arrest an alleged top leader of an international human trafficking gang in Ukhia upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

A murder case accused flees while under treatment in police custody at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).

Two suspected cattle lifters are beaten to death and another left injured in a mob beating in Ataikula of Pabna.

The number of Bangladeshis killed in the Mina stampede during Hajj last month rises to 68, the Hajj mission in Saudi Arabia confirms.

A Bangladeshi national is killed and five others sustain bullet injuries as Indian Border Security Force (BSF) members open fire on a group of cattle traders in Lalmonirhat.

A man who fell victim to an alleged doping gang dies at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

Condemned war criminal Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed hopes that he will get "justice" after he seeks review of the Supreme Court ruling that upheld his death penalty.

An alleged robber was killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion members in Sirajganj.

Two physically challenged readymade garment workers are killed as a train hit them in Gazipur.