Police arrest a BNP-blessed councilor candidate from Hazaribagh in Dhaka.

Three days into the Ashulia bank robbery that left eight people dead, police arrested two “militants” for their alleged involvement with the deadly incident.

At least 50 workers of a garment factory in Ashulia, outskirts of the capital Dhaka, falls sick after taking snacks supplied by the factory.

The home ministry imposes a seven-day ban on carrying licensed firearms across Dhaka and Chittagong city corporation areas ahead of the city polls scheduled for April 28.

BNP criticises Election Commission’s strategy over army deployment for the upcoming city elections to Dhaka and Chittagong city corporations.

"This is not a woman-friendly city, dear mayoral aspirants. That is perhaps the most glaring parameter of failure of our consecutive governments."

Riding on the 145-runs opening partnership and Soumya Sarkar's maiden century, Bangladesh easily chased down Pakistan’s challenging total by losing only two wickets and secured their tenth ODI series win via a whitewash at Mirpur Stadium today.

The High Court questions the legality of the action of authorities concerned for giving VIP status to war criminal Ghulam Azam’ wife and two other family members at Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

Train services of Sylhet with Dhaka and Chittagong resume after seven hours as at least 35 trees fell on railway tracks during a nor’wester in Moulvibazar.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia blames the activists of ruling Awami League and its student front Bangladesh Chhatra League for the deadly bank robbery attempt earlier in the afternoon at Ashulia.

The High Court summons the industries secretary to appear before it on May 19 for not relocating tannery industries from Hazaribagh in the capital in line with its directive.

A total of 136 more Bangladeshi nationals, who were evacuated from Hodeida, Yemen to Djibouti on 16 April by an Indian Naval Ship, reach Dhaka.

The Election Commission has decided to deploy army from April 26 to April 29 in Dhaka and Chittagong city corporations to maintain law and order during the April 28 city polls.

Diplomats from 16 countries inspect the damaged vehicles, which came under attack when BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was campaigning at Karwan Bazar in Dhaka.

British High Commissioner in Bangladesh Robert W Gibson notes with concern reports of violent incidents that occurred during the past two weeks of campaigning for city corporation elections in Dhaka and Chittagong.

An Awami League leader files a case while a BNP leader lodges a complaint blaming each other in connection with the attack during BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s election campaign at Karwan Bazar in Dhaka.

Khaleda Zia’s security and defence affairs adviser claims that a bullet hit a window of the BNP chief’s SUV during the attack on her motorcade at Karwanbazar.

At least three crude bombs go off in Nayapaltan area of Dhaka this evening, hours after the BNP-led 20-party alliance called hartal for Wednesday.

A tribunal in Dhaka concludes hearing arguments in war crimes case against Syed Md Hasan Ali, an alleged Razakar commander of Kishoreganj, and will deliver its verdict any day.

Teachers and students of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Dhaka University threaten to go for a tough movement from Tuesday if the sexual offenders in Pahela Baishakh’s incident on the Dhaka University campus are not brought to book by then.