A university student was prevented from committing suicide by police, after a phone call to 999, following the youth’s post on Facebook.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the BNP government had AL leader Ivy Rahman’s offspring locked in a room at Dhaka’s Combined Military Hospital (CMH) for three-four hours, as then Prime Minister Khaleda Zia went there to see her (on August 24, 2004).

Ten lakh doses of Pfizer vaccine, gifted by the US, will arrive in Dhaka on August 30.

Desh General Insurance Company posted an 11 per cent year-on-year rise in profit in 2020.

A man died when a loaded truck hit a running Khulna mail train while attempting to cross the rail tracks through an open crossing at Kazirhat point, near the Chilahati rail station of Nilphamari’s Domar upazila.

Government is set to build a bridge worth TK 3,264 crore on Brammaputra river in Mymensingh.

A Dhaka court today concluded recording statements of witnesses in a case filed against former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and 10 others for misappropriating and laundering about Tk 4 crore from Farmers Bank in 2016.

The general index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange went past 6,900 points as investors remain bullish about the prospect of the economy despite the ongoing economic slowdown and are strongly participating in the trading activity.

Seventy-four Rohingyas, who managed to flee from camps in Cox’s Bazar, were detained in Boalkhali upazila of Chattogram early today.

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) claimed to have arrested two members of banned militant group Ansar Al Islam from Khulna city yesterday.

Bangladesh Coast Guard in Cox's Bazar rescued thirteen fishermen from a fishing boat, named ‘FB Ma Moni’, from the Bay of Bengal last night, roughly 10 nautical miles west of Cox's Bazar's Laboni Beach.

Justice Amir Hossain, a sitting judge of the High Court and the International Crimes Tribunal, passed away at Dhaka Combined Military Hospital this morning. He was 64.

A 65-year-old farmer of Narsigndi’s Monohardi upazila has been released after serving four days in jail, following his arrest under a “fake warrant”.

A Dhaka court today set October 20 for hearing on charge framing against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in 11 cases, including one filed over sedition.

The Chattogram port has slipped nine notches down in 2020 to rank 67th in terms of annual throughput of containers among 100 top busiest ports across the world, according to the 2021 edition of Lloyd’s List One Hundred Ports.

A parliamentary body yesterday recommended shutting down the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate in Hemayetpur because the estate does not have adequate facilities to treat all liquid waste generated by the tanners it houses.

The Hindu Ain Pronoyon e Nagorik Udyog Coalition has issued a statement protesting the propaganda against a number of individuals and organisations that are not involved in the formulation of a Hindu inheritance law.

The Padma bridge project yesterday moved one step closer to completion after the authority finished the installation of all road slabs linking both sides of the Padma river through the roadway.

Indira Gandhi made yet another important breakthrough by writing directly to her counterpart in China, Premier Chou En-lai, on Bangladesh affairs.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayor Md Atiqul Islam today said they will not serve any legal notice to an occupier before demolishing their illegal structures.