The Dhaka North City Corporation has sent letters to the relevant government agencies, urging them to prevent the sale, purchase, or change in land use of areas earmarked in the Detailed Area Plan for parks, playgrounds and waterbodies...
A Bangladesh Army patrol team held two youths, including a leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, with Tk 90,000 they had extorted as ransom from a man at Madhabpur upazila in Habiganj at midnight past Thursday...
The couple idol, Jugal Bigraha, a traditional religious festival of the Hindu community, has been held at Kantajiu Temple, also known as Kantanagar temple, in Dinajpur...
A murder case has been filed with the Mirpur police against the husband and in-laws of a woman after her body was recovered from a house in Dhaka city on Thursday...
At least six people were killed in road accidents in three districts, namely Dinajpur, Sylhet and Chattogram, between Friday and Thursday night...
Dhaka University pro-vice-chancellor for administration Professor Sayema Haque Bidisha at a seminar on Thursday said that it was the right time to take the country forward by utilising the power of youth...
The Communist Party of Bangladesh and two factions of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal on Friday observed the 50th anniversary of death of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding president of Bangladesh...
One hundred and thirty-four more new dengue cases were reported in the 24 hours till Friday morning, raising the number of confirmed cases to 25,710 this year...
A minor boy died from electrocution at Majhipara village under Lakhsmipur union of Gaibandha Sadar on Friday morning...
The Border Guard Bangladesh arrested a man with $51,000 in a raid at the Mujibnagar border in Meherpur on Friday...
Forest guards arrested four fishermen along with fishing instruments for illegally netting fish in the Sundarbans over the past three days...
Shah Rafayat Chowdhury, co-founder and president of Footsteps, delivered his first keynote statement at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, spotlighting the July uprising as an example for youth-led action against injustice worldwide...
Ferry operations on the Paturia鈥揇aulatdia route have been severely disrupted after two out of three ferry jetties at Paturia collapsed under the force of a strong current in the Padma River...
A complaint has been filed against 42 people, including Mohiuddin Roni, a key organiser of the health sector reform movement, for allegedly attacking a human chain programme organised by doctors, nurses and staff of Barishal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital...
Landless farmers with their families on Friday protested at extortionists who allegedly prevented them from farming, physically assaulting them and even giving them murder threats at Hatiya upazila in Noakhali...