Police recovered the body of a housewife from a pond in Phulbari upazila of the district yesterday.

A court here yesterday sentenced three people to life term imprisonment in connection with a case for abducting and killing an infant boy for ransom in Morrelganj upazila in 2019.

Amid concerns over alarming rise in privately operated illegal hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres -- most of which lack proper setup and prerequisites for their operations -- in the entire district of Habiganj, the district health authorities seem to be playing down the situation.

Ignoring advice of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) not to cultivate potato in large scale, farmers in the greater Rangpur region

Hefajat-e-Islam leader Maulana Mamunul Haque has said he would remove all the sculptures in the country if he had the legal, moral and political capacity.

In the recruitment test for the post of Scientific Officer (Temporary) of Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute (BFRI) under the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock, a candidate has reportedly passed without appearing for the written test.

Newly appointed State Minister for Religious affairs Md Faridul Haque Khan today said sculpture and idol were different and there were sculptures in almost all countries.

The meet of the 57-member OIC’s foreign ministers has concluded in Niamey seeking fund for legal battle over Rohingya genocide, urging Muslim solidarity to fight Islamophobia and terrorism as well as retreating support to the principle of Arab initiative of the two-state solution over Palestine cause.

Rayhan Ahmed, who was reportedly beaten to death at Bandar Bazar police outpost in Sylhet on October 11, died due to severe injuries, according to the viscera report.

The Election Commission has cancelled the registration of Progressive Democratic Party as a political party as it failed to meet the condition of maintaining the registration.

A parliamentary body today set March next year as the deadline to start crash eviction programme to recover 1.38 lakh acre reserved forest land across the country grabbed by 88,000 individuals and organisations.

The health authorities reported 21 new dengue cases across the country in the past 24 hours till this morning.

A Supreme Court lawyer today submitted a writ petition before the High Court seeking its directive on the government to form a high powered inquiry committee to probe the violation of fundamental rights of children in the three Child Development Centres of the country.

The High Court today issued a contempt of court rule against the chairman of Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) for not complying with its directive over setting the price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).

A Bagerhat court has sentenced three accused to life term imprisonment for killing a three-month-old child after abduction at Morrelganj upazila in Bagerhat on March 11, 2019.

Twenty-nine people have died from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The 718 MW natural gas-fired combined cycle power plant project at Meghnaghat (on the outskirts of Dhaka) -- the country’s largest gas-based Independent Power Producer (IPP) being set up by Reliance Bangladesh LNG & Power Limited -- has made significant progress despite the ongoing pandemic.

The High Court will deliver its order tomorrow on a bail petition filed by Zahirul Islam Zia, an accused of a rape case in Feni who married his victim at Feni jail gate in order to get bail in line with a directive from the High Court.

Abdul Hannan Khan, a freedom fighter and the chief investigator of International Crimes Tribunal, died of coronavirus today at the age 78.

Unknown criminals beat a former Chhatra League leader to death in Chakaria upazila of Cox’s Bazar earlier today.