Seeking to woo farmers and the urban middle class ahead of parliamentary elections due in April-May, the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday presented its final budget of its present term.

A gate of Meghla Parjatan Complex in Bandarban remains closed most of the time, obstructing movement of residents of two indigenous neighbourhoods.

When more than 21 lakh students across the country are sitting for the Secondary School Certificate and equivalent exams beginning at 10:00am today, a student in Kushtia will take the exam eight hours later in the evening, for religious reasons.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday met Hefajat-e Islam Ameer Shah Ahmed Shafi at Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam, also known as Hathazari Madrasa.

Criminals killed an SSC candidate by slitting his throat in Munshiganj's Louhajang upazila on Thursday night.

A chickenpox outbreak in Cox's Bazar Rohingya camps has raised a public health concern in the region, officials say.

Dhaka has requested Washington to send back Rashed Chowdhury, an absconding killer of Bangabandhu, to Bangladesh.

Three of a family were killed and several others injured when a microbus crashed into a tree in Mymensingh early yesterday.

A Dhaka court yesterday rejected a petition seeking bail for MA Kader, chairman of Crescent Leather Products and Crescent Tanneries, and sent him to jail in connection with one of the three cases filed over laundering Tk 919 crore in foreign currencies.

Two MPs-elect from the Gonoforum will not be joining parliament, the party has decided.

The ACC has found that syndicates at public hospitals, involving some of their employees, illegally took money from patients and their relatives in exchange for different services.

A US judge refused Wednesday to unseal charges that the government is believed to have prepared against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

The UN Security Council on Wednesday endorsed the appointment of former Danish general Michael Lollesgaard to head the UN observer mission in war-wracked Yemen, diplomats said.

Facebook said Wednesday that quarterly profit climbed to an all-time record $6.9 billion as it boosted its global user base despite scandals that have dented the leading social network's image.

An officer-in-charge of a police station in Chattogram was seen attending a yard meeting with “criminals” in Lalkhan Bazar area of the district on Tuesday.

The High Court yesterday observed that playing blind man's buff (kanamachhi) over protection of rivers must stop, as grabbers return to occupy river banks even after their eviction.

The United States will stop complying with a landmark nuclear pact with Russia as soon as this weekend after last-ditch talks with Moscow to save it fell flat, a senior US arms control official said yesterday.

Modupe Adegbite's grandfather had 22 children, while her father had nine. At the age of just 19, she has decided she wants no more than four.

Two ruling party men sustained stab injuries in separate incidents at Cox's Bazar and Satkhira in last two days.

Dhaka has apparently not accepted the nomination of the new high commissioner of Pakistan to Bangladesh by not responding to the proposed nomination in the last 11 months.