PM tells Martinez during the Argentina goalkeeper's courtesy call

Rains may continue to drench the country, including the capital Dhaka, in 24 hours from 9am today as monsoon is active in Bangladesh, said the Met office.

President Mohammed Shahabuddin returned home this morning from Saudi Arabia after performing the holy Hajj.

Newly elected mayors of three city corporations -- Abul Khair Abdullah of Barishal, Talukder Abdul Khaleque of Khulna and Jayeda Khatun of Gazipur -- took oath this morning

The north-eastern and adjoining upstream regions of the country may experience short-term flood due to heavy rainfall in the 48 hours since this morning, said a bulletin of Flood Forecasting and Warning Center of the Bangladesh Water Development Board.

Dhaka's air quality continued to be in the "moderate" zone this morning, thanks to the torrential rain for the past few days and traffic yet to return to its usual form after Eid holidays.

A two-storey building, which houses Bangshal police outpost, in the capital tilted to one side this afternoon forcing authorities to relocate the inhabitants to a nearby building

US-Bangla Airlines is going to start direct flights to its 12th international destination, India's capital Delhi, from the last week of July.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to leave Dhaka for a two-day visit to Gopalganj's Kotalipara and Tungipara tomorrow.

Two people were killed and a child was injured after a car hit their motorcycle in Kurmitola area in the capital early today.

Rain may lash all the six divisions of the county today, said Bangladesh Metrological Department.

Dhaka's air quality was ‘moderate’ today morning due to less traffic on the 4th of the Eid-ul-Azha holidays that began on Tuesday.

A fire that broke out at a launch at Sadarghat Launch Terminal in the capital has been brought under control.

Every year on Eid-ul-Azha, the one-day meat market becomes the main place to buy and sell meat collected by people of lower income groups from different homes

With an air quality index (AQI) score of 95 at 8:57am, Dhaka ranked 12th  in the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality

Detectives busted a gang that used to illegally stock subsidised rice and flour meant for Open Market Sale (OMS) in the capital’s Demra

A JMB man, who was sentenced to life in prison for carrying out serial bomb blasts in Jhenidah on August 17 in 2005, was arrested from Dhaka’s Tejgaon area last night.

A Dhaka court today sentenced four people, including a former executive director of People's Leasing and Financial Services Limited (PLFS), to 17 years imprisonment in absentia for embezzlement of Tk 10.36crore from the company

DMP chief tells city dwellers ahead of Eid vacation

A Dhaka court today extended till August 7 the deadline for submitting the probe report of a case filed over the murders of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi in February 2012.