Rapid Action Battalion seizes 7,500 kg of jatka and fined 11 people Tk 5000 each for selling those at Karwan Bazar wholesale fish market in Dhaka, Rab sources say.

Barely a month after the brutal murder of Avijit Roy, another blogger and online activist was hacked to death in broad daylight yesterday. Oyasiqur Rahman Babu, 27, was attacked by three cleaver-wielding youths in the capital's Tejgaon Industrial area around 9:00am.

Free thinkers have been repeatedly targets of extremist groups throughout Bangladesh and the trend set in motion is a matter of grave concern

A tribunal in Dhaka asks prosecution to submit on April 13 the formal charges against eight suspected war criminals for their crimes against humanity during the country’s 1971 Liberation War.

Seven people are sentenced to death and another to life term imprisonment for killing an Awami League man in 2006

A blogger is stabbed to death in broad day light in Tejgaon Industrial area of Dhaka. Police detain two of the three killers red-handed.

A mayor aspirant has been fined for riding a horse cart wrapped in campaign banners and posters in violation of the electoral code of conducts.

High Court denies bail to an owner of a garment factory housed in Rana Plaza building that collapsed in 2013, in a corruption case.

Body of ABM Abdul Latif, brother of Railways Minister Mujibul Haque, was found floating in Dhanmondi Lake in Dhaka

Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight from Singapore with 210 passengers makes emergency landing at Dhaka airport after one of its engines sent false fire alarm, official says.

Prof Emajuddin Ahmed says BNP will participate in the upcoming Dhaka and Chittagong city corporation elections if “level-playing field” is ensured

A staff of a Dhaka-based national daily’s printing press was killed early today when a newspaper-carrying vehicle he was travelling in turned turtle in Dhaka’s Motijheel area

Mirza Abbas, convener of Dhaka city unit of BNP, collects nomination paper for contesting the Dhaka South City Corporation mayoral race on April 28

Police arrests a youth from Shahjahanpur in Dhaka for allegedly slaying his sister and a woman on Tuesday

A fire that broke out at a shopping centre in Science Laboratory area in Dhaka has been brought under control

All banks in Dhaka and Chittagong metropolitan areas will stay open this weekend – Friday and Saturday – for the upcoming city corporation polls

Police recover throat slit bodies of mother and daughter at their Uttar Jatrabari residence in Dhaka.

A minor boy dies and three of his family members fall ill after consuming toxic fish at Hajaribagh in Dhaka today

Police today recovered a throat slit body of an unidentified young girl in Badda’s Shatarkul area in Dhaka

Garment workers torch a bus at Zirani Bazar in Savar, on the outskirt of Dhaka, Tuesday morning after the vehicle hit and injured two of their fellows