Unidentified assailants hacked a schoolgirl at her house in Sirajdikhan upazila of Munshiganj on Tuesday.

Some ruling party men are tainting the government scheme to provide cheap rice for the 50 lakh ultra poor across the country.

Social and civil society activists in India yesterday wrote an “open letter” to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, appealing to him to withdraw support to the proposed Rampal thermal power plant that might cause "irreparable damage" to the Sundarbans in Bangladesh.

Our law-enforcement agencies left nothing to chance, and there cannot be any complaint about the arrangement for security and ground movement of Chinese President Xi Jinping and his large entourage. It was indeed impeccable for a very very important person of Xi's stature.

Urban planning has failed to keep up with mass urbanization around the world, placing cities at the epicenter of the 21st century's most pressing challenges, a top United Nations official said on Monday.

Forty three days into his burial as an unidentified deceased, freedom fighter Abdul Latif yesterday received the posthumous guard of honour that he deserved from the state.

Opposition Leader Raushan Ershad's repeated failure to get appointments with visiting prominent world leaders, including Chinese President Xi Jinping, triggered criticism in and outside her party, Jatiya Party insiders said.

A Sylhet court yesterday rejected the charge sheet submitted by the Criminal Investigation Department in blogger Ananta Bijoy Das murder case.

Rokonuddin Khondoker, who fled to Syria with his family, and militant suspects Major (retd) Jahidul Islam and Tanvir Kaderi made donations to the “Neo JMB” that carried out the Gulshan Holey Artisan attack, a top investigator said yesterday.

The ruling Awami League will focus on electing the party's future leadership and the next parliamentary elections in its national council next week.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the children of the country to prepare themselves as worthy citizens to have their own dignified place in this competitive world.

A wild elephant died of electrocution at Garo hills under Jhenaigati upazila in Sherpur district yesterday.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) authorities reclaimed around 50 decimals of public land after evicting an over three-decade old illegal truck stand at Janopath intersection in Sayedabad yesterday.

The mainstream JMB, which has been out of scene for quite a long time, is trying to regroup under a new chief.

Police claim to have arrested the chief of a five-member militant team that hacked and shot dead online activist Nazim Uddin Samad in April.

Veteran leftist politician Ajoy Roy passed away yesterday in the capital. He was 88.

The Transparency International yesterday expressed concern over a provision of the recently enacted foreign-funded NGOs law, saying it would reduce the “space and possibility of action of civil society''.

A day after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Pakistan a "mothership of terrorism", China yesterday strongly defended its all-

Maqbul Ahmad took oath as the elected ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said she expects the World Bank to play a stronger role in Bangladesh's development endeavours.