Porimol Joydhor, a teacher of Viqarunnisa Noon School, gets life term imprisonment for raping a class-X student in 2011. The court also fines him Tk 50,000, in default to serve six months more in jail.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will skip tomorrow’s hearing in Zia Charitable and Zia Orphanage Trust corruption cases due to her illness.

Detectives says they arrested a Jamaat-e-Islami man for threatening eminent personalities including Prof Anisuzzaman and Muntassir Mamoon with death.

Detectives have detained a man for allegedly conducting propaganda in favour of Islamic State (IS) though internet. Nahid Hossain was arrested from Badda in Dhaka last night.

The High Court today directed the government to continue sufficient supply of gas to the households in Dhaka.

Mystery shrouds the death of a 60-year-old Japanese woman, who had been illegally living in Bangladesh for the last nine years, police say.

The life of a Dhakaite is a simple one-live and let live. This one simple rule is what makes Dhaka the dream city for muggers. With the rise of such incidents, thieves are becoming more innovative in their trait to keep us constantly baffled with their means of stealing.

A Dhaka court issues arrest warrants against 23 leaders and activists of BNP-led 20-party alliance including Barkatullah Bulu, Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas and Maruf Kamal Khan in an arson case.

Alleged robbers stab three sisters at their Shahjahanpur house in Dhaka.

If you want to have fun with the kids but can’t make time to go to the big amusement parks because they are too far away from the city, here’s the news: they have opened a big park in Uttara with lots of exciting rides.

Dhaka Dynamites win the 2nd game of BPL-2015 by six wickets and give Comilla their first taste of defeat in the T20 competition.

A four-year-old girl is raped by a neighbour in the Sabujbagh area of Dhaka.

Trading at country’s premier bourse Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) began one-and-half hours late for what authorities said “technical glitch”.

Security around the Dhaka Central Jail has been boosted and paramilitary force Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has been deployed in Dhaka and Chittagong to maintain security.

The stage is set, as there can be no better time for the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) to return to the reckoning and shrug off its notorious past.

Dhaka Dynamites head coach Mickey Arthur believes that hunger within the young Bangladeshi cricketers will help his side, and was quite impressed at the first look of the cricketers under his wing for the BPL mission.

The lawyers for death row war criminals SQ Chy and Mojaheed are yet to get permission from Dhaka Central Jail authorities to meet their clients.

A husband suffered burn injuries as his wife poured boiled water on him following family feud in Kallyanpur area of Dhaka.

During a long walk on the Buckland bund along the Buriganga, have you ever noticed an old and decaying yet majestic colonial architecture with a 400 meter long riverfront? If you have, you know what I am talking about- it’s the Ruplal House.

They say change is the only constant in life, and if you have grown up in Dhaka, you have lived long enough to