Lalmonirhat’s Aditmari Upazila Parishad Chairman Farooq Imrul Kayes has been suspended on the basis of six allegations, including misconduct with government officials.

The Department of Environment (DoE) today fined a steel mill in Chattogram city Tk 10 lakh for releasing suspended particulate matter (SPM) beyond the set limit.

Mishu Biswas, an additional superintendent of Bangladesh Police, swam across the Bangla Channel today and claimed to be the first police official to do so.

At least 50 shops were gutted in a fire that broke out at a bazar in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur today.

A prisoner has reportedly died by suicide at Cox’s Bazar District Jail.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh today detained three people along with 3.5kg gold from Jashore town while they were allegedly smuggling the gold to India.

A court in Chapainawabganj today sentenced seven people to life term imprisonment for killing a man in Shibganj upazila of the district in 2015.

The government will initially provide three crore free doses of Covid-19 vaccine to citizens of the country, selecting the recipients following the protocol of the World Health Organization (WHO).

Three people were sentenced to death today for killing a child in Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj in 2013.

A Dhaka court today adjourned till January 7 the hearing on charge framing against expelled Dhaka South Jubo League president Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat in two cases filed under the arms and narcotics control acts.

A young woman, who eloped with her boyfriend, was allegedly raped by him and his friends for eight days at a house in Kollogram, a suburban area of Sylhet city.

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) today extended the deadline for income tax return submission by one month.

The process of relocating Rohingya refugees to Bhashan Char from Cox’s Bazar camps will start next week, UNB reports.

The High Court today questioned the legality of a lower court order that granted bail to JMI Hospital Requisite Manufacturing Ltd's Chairman Abdur Razzak in connection with a case filed over supplying fake N-95 masks for the use of healthcare professionals.

Vote casting in the Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) election is progressing in a festive manner.

The High Court today granted a one-year bail to Zahirul Islam alias Zia Uddin, an accused in a rape case who married his victim at Feni jail gate in order to get bail following a directive from the court.

Investigation officer of Sylhet’s Murari Chand College rape case will submit charge sheet soon as the DNA test reports were handed over to him today.

Eight police personnel of Kushtia were sacked yesterday as they failed drug test, said Superintendent of Police in Kushtia SM Tanvir Arafath.

At least one Bangladeshi citizen is among a crew of 20 seamen, most of them Indian nationals, who have been detained by Houthi rebels in Yemen capital Sana’a since February this year.

Four Bangladeshi teenagers yesterday returned home from India, where they had been jailed for one and a half years for illegally entering the country.