A Dhaka court on Friday sent to jail Md Jahangir Alam, former secretary of the public security division of the Ministry of Home Affairs, in a case lodged over the killing of Russel Bakaul in the city鈥檚 Jatrabari area during the July-August mass uprising in 2024.
A staff member of the National Institute of Diseases of the Chest and Hospital in the capital鈥檚 Banani area was critically injured after being shot on Friday night.
Two people drowned after a boat carrying them capsized in a water body of Kapasia in Gazipur on Friday.
Shipping adviser M Sakhawat Hussain has said that initiatives will be taken for expansion of the Sonamasjid Land Port.
The Rapid Action Battalion has rescued a kidnapped adolescent girl of Lalmonirhat and arrested the main accused from the Lal Kharu area under Fatullah in Narayanganj.
A 42-year-old housewife was murdered by slitting throat at her house at Pirganj in Rangpur, police said on Friday.
The Teesta Bridge, constructed over the Teesta River to connect Kurigram and Gaibandha, will be opened for public and vehicular movement today.
The Detective Branch of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police has arrested eight leaders and activists of Awami League and its affiliated organisations from various parts of Dhaka city on Thursday.
A total of 155 citizens, including rights activists, lawyers and academics, in a statement on Friday, demanded judicial probe into the recent death of three men belonging to the Bawm national minority in jail custody.
The Anti-Corruption Commission has filed a case against 17 people, including former BASIC Bank Limited chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bachchu and its former managing director Kazi Fakhrul Islam, on charges of embezzling Tk 30 crore by approving a loan to a fake company.
Speakers at a discussion in Dhaka on Wednesday called for the protection of environment and utilising power of youths to advance the country.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan on Friday said that his party saw no obstacles to holding the next national election in February next year.
Bangladesh University Grants Commission chairman Professor SMA Faiz has called for building a new Bangladesh free from discrimination in line with the spirit of the July uprising.
Skill Jobs has launched the JUMP: Career Acceleration Programme, a new initiative designed to support fresh graduates, final-year students and jobseekers, at a ceremony at the 71 Auditorium, Daffodil Plaza in Dhaka recently.
Bangladesh interim government LGRD and cooperatives adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain on Friday formally inaugurated the 鈥楯uly Art Work鈥� graffiti painted on the Agargaon to Karwan Bazar metro rail pillars with the overall support of the Dhaka North City Corporation.