A sacked Bangladesh Army soldier was arrested over allegations of attacking a serving member of the force with locally made sharp weapons in Battola Bazar area at Khilhet in the capital on Saturday afternoon and over planning a massive sabotage at an entrance of the Dhaka Cantonment.
The students of formerly Dhaka University-affiliated seven colleges on Saturday demanded the formation of an interim administration by today to run their institutions.
A 48-hour ultimatum to arrest the killers of Shahriar Alam Shammo, a Dhaka University student, is going to be expired at 12 noon today amid ongoing protests by the students...
The share of walking in covering daily trips generated in Greater Dhaka has more than doubled in 14 years, as people are forced to walk to take trips amid intensified traffic congestion on roads in the area.
Supporters of Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Ishraque Hossain locked the gates of the Dhaka South City Corporation headquarters for the second working day on Saturday, demanding that he be sworn in as the city mayor...
A two-day 12th Inter-University Environmental Debate Competition began at the Teachers-Students Centre auditorium of Dhaka University on Saturday...
The capital market closed the week with a sharp decline across all indices and a steep fall in trading activity, led by a significant drop in banking sector share prices...
A Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Saturday placed three people, arrested in a case filed over the killing of Shahriar Alam Shammo, a Dhaka University student and a leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, on a six-day remand...
Two young men were stabbed to death in separate incidents in the capital's Shankar and Jigatala areas on Friday night...
A group of students on Friday gave the authorities a 48-hour ultimatum to arrest the killers of Shahriar Alam Shammo, a Dhaka University student, as the protests over the killing of Shahriar continued for the third consecutive day on Friday on the DU campus.
Protesting students, teachers and staff of Jagannath University on Friday evening withdrew their protest programmes after three days of demonstrations in front of the Kakrail Mosque police barricade near the chief adviser鈥檚 official residence...
Hundreds of women 鈥� including ethnic minorities, rights activists, garment workers, tea workers, persons with disabilities, domestic workers, and sex workers along with transgender individuals 鈥� took part in the 鈥榃omen鈥檚 March for Solidarity鈥�...
A Biman Bangladesh Airlines aircraft safely landed at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital Dhaka without one of its wheels, as the wheel came off from the Dhaka-bound airliner shortly after it took off from the Cox鈥檚 Bazar airport.
Protesting students, teachers and staffs of Jagannath University began hunger strike on the third day of their protest on Friday afternoon to press home their demand for accommodation facilities and the completion of their proposed new campus.
Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked eight on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 129 at 10:50am on Friday morning.
The Dhaka South City Corporation on Thursday evicted all illegal shops and makeshift structures from the Suhrawardy Udyan following the fatal stabbing of Dhaka University student and Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Chatra Dal leader Shahriar Alam Shammo near Suhrawardy Udyan...
At least eight leaders of the National Citizen Party and Students Against Discrimination were injured as they came under attack early Thursday at a lead factory in the Goailbari Bazar area under Ashulia police station, on the outskirts of Bangladesh capital Dhaka...
Supporters of Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Ishraque Hossain continued their demonstrations for the second consecutive day and locked the main gate of the Dhaka South City Corporation headquarters on Thursday, demanding that he be sworn in as the city mayor...
The third edition of the group art exhibition 鈥楾he Buddha of Bengal鈥�, which was inaugurated on May 9 at Alliance Fran莽aise de Dhaka in Dhanmondi, will conclude on Friday...
British High Commissioner to Dhaka Sarah Cooke met with information and broadcasting adviser Md Mahfuj Alam at the latter鈥檚 office at Bangladesh Secretariat on Thursday.
The Jagannath University Teachers鈥� Association on Thursday announced a complete shutdown of the university until their demands, including for accommodation facilities and the completion of their proposed new campus, are met.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Thursday imposed a ban on all kinds of meetings, processions and gatherings at and around nine significant places in the capital Dhaka, including the Chief Justice鈥檚 residence...
Mastercard Economics Institute in a report on Thursday said that Dhaka was becoming a popular destination for Malaysian travelers, as Malaysia鈥檚 overseas spending rose by 3.5 per cent, showing Dhaka鈥檚 growing importance in the region.
Protests over the killing of Dhaka University student Shahriar Alam Shammo continued for the second consecutive day on Thursday on the campus and elsewhere in the country.
Former lawmaker Kazim Uddin Ahmed Dhanu was arrested in Aftabnagar area in the capital on early Thursday...
A mourning day was being observed on Dhaka University campus on Thursday over killing of a student of the university on the campus on Tuesday night...
A group of Jagannath University students continued their sit-in at Kakrial Mosque police barricade near the chief adviser鈥檚 official residence Jamuna in Dhaka for the second day on Thursday morning demanding accommodation facilities and the completion of their proposed campus outside the city.
DISMANTLING battery-powered rickshaws to keep them off the main road should not be the way to deal with the threat and menace that the technically fragile vehicles pose. The Dhaka north city authorities on May 13 conducted a drive against battery-powered rickshaws and seized dozens from the main roads, declared off-limits to such vehicles, and destroyed...
Nursing students gathering from across the country in Dhaka city on Wednesday blocked the Shahbagh crossing for nearly six hours, demanding recognition of the diplomas in nursing and midwifery as equivalent to bachelor鈥檚 degree...
The killing of a Dhaka University student on the campus triggered protests and raised security concerns...