Supreme Court gives time to both state and defence until March 31 for submitting concise statements on an appeal filed by convicted war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami against his death penalty

The roar and the chants are unmistakable. You only hear them at a cricket stadium in Bangladesh or if you are around the Dhaka University area, soon after a big Bangladesh win. The roar was there when Bangladesh beat England in Adelaide on Monday and if you are passing by, you would be dragged towards it.

A Bangladeshi national along with eight other foreigners has been taken hostage allegedly by Islamic State from an oil field, south of Sirte in Libya

US Ambassador in Dhaka Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat says, a democracy can only achieve its full potential with ample and safe space for free expression, opposition voices, and political dialogue.

Denouncing the efforts of a section of people to keep women captive in houses, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urges all to come forward to create social awareness to stop anti-women propaganda.

Don't mention 2011. Bangladesh's victory over England in the last World Cup was overshadowed by the craziness of Ireland's triumph in Bangalore

Muhammad Kamaruzzaman has sought a four-week adjournment of hearing on his review petition against his death penalty upheld by the Supreme Court.

The opposition Jatiya Party announces to back Bahauddin Ahmed Babul and Hazi Saifuddin Ahmed Milon as mayoral candidates for long-pending polls to Dhaka city corporations

A minor girl killed and her mother injured as a bus hit a rickshaw at Gulistan in Dhaka

The BNP-led 20-party alliance has called for a fresh spell of 72-hour countrywide hartal from Sunday morning to press home their demands that include general elections under a nonparty administration.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is addressing a rally at Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka on the occasion of the historic March 7.

Three people, including a teenage girl, have been found dead in different parts of Sylhet district

Customs authority seized 170 gold bars weighing 27 kilogrammes from a North Korean diplomat at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

President Abdul Hamid left here for London this morning for eye treatment and health checkup.

Police detain at least 12 activists of BNP and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami in 24-hour raids through Dhaka

A sedition case has been filed against BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka and Nagorik Oikya Convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna.

3 people, including a Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader, were injured in separate crude bomb blasts in Dhaka

A truck helper, who suffered burns in an arson attack on a truck in Chapainawabganj, dies at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital.

British Foreign Minister Hugo Swire urged all political parties in Bangladesh, the government and others in society to take confidence-building measures necessary to stop the violence.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today donated the royalty he got for his two books to arson victims of the current political unrest.