Police arrested a leader of banned militant outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), Chittagong unit with explosives and grenade-making materials in the port city today.

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) guns down a Bangladeshi cattle trader along Charpanka frontier in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj; deceased was Torikul Islam, 35, of Jamaipara village

BANGLADESH'S War of Independence in 1971 was the culmination of a prolonged movement for emancipation from economic, political and cultural subjugation by West Pakistan.

The government transferred 15 police officers to different positions in the latest reshuffle.

Detectives arrest two people in Chittagong for spreading rumour regarding the whereabouts of missing BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed

Bangladesh has won the Women in Parliaments Global Forum (WIP) Award as a pioneering country in reducing gender discrimination

Bangladesh is the third most depressing place to live on earth, a recent survey says

A mother and her two minor children were found dead at their house in Nabiganj upazila of Habiganj

Dhaka court summons BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and three members of her family asking them to appear before it on April 12 in Dandy Dyeing loan default case

Tigers return home to a rousing welcome by several thousand of cricket fans at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka

Reiterating that BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed was picked up by law enforcers, his wife again seeks prime minister’s intervention to trace him immediately

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad sacks his special adviser Bobby Hajjaj after the latter announced his own candidacy for the Dhaka City Corporation polls

An accused in a case filed for killing a girl and slicing her in seven pieces in Motijheel earlier this month is killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion in Dhaka's Shahjahanpur area

Four including three of the nine who suffered severe burns in the mindless petrol bomb attack on a truck in Magura succumbed to their injuries at DMCH

Nine people are burnt as unidentified miscreants hurl petrol bomb at a truck in Magura

Miscreants set fire to the house of a 14-year-old girl allegedly for refusing a marriage proposal in Narsingdi

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad’s Special Adviser Bobby Hajjaj declares himself an independent mayoral candidate for the upcoming Dhaka North City Corporation poll scheduled for April 28

Cricket fans of Rajshahi University burnt the effigies of three umpires protesting their alleged partial umpiring during Bangladesh-India quarter final match in the ICC Cricket World Cup2015

Before Bangladesh left for Australia in January, the players and coaches routinely mentioned that the team's primary target was to reach the World Cup quarter-finals.

I had a dream, which is not unusual given the time that we get to sleep during the traffic jam, which is the hallmark of the ongoing hartal imposed by the opposition out of parliament.