The parliamentary body on Home Affairs today placed before the House the “Narcotics Control (Amendment) Bill, 2020” dropping the provision of setting up separate narcotic control tribunals paving the way for competent courts to try narcotic-related crimes.

University Grants Commission (UGC) has called on private universities to update the syllabus of their ongoing academic programmes.

Prime Minister's ICT Adviser and CRI Chairperson Sajeeb Wazed Joy will announce the Joy Bangla Youth Award 2020 winners through a virtual award-conferring ceremony tomorrow.

The High Court today upheld a government decision that declared 13,000 acres of land at Jaintapur and Asampara in Sylhet as reserved forest area.

The parliamentary body on Women and Children Affairs today submitted its report in parliament on 'Women and Children Repression Prevention (Amendment) Bill, 2020' seeking death penalty for rape.

A 17-day-old baby went missing from home in Morrelganj upazila of Bagerhat early today.

Despite the ongoing crisis amid coronavirus epidemic, the upward trend in remittance flow into the country continues as expatriates have sent USD 1.066 billion in just 12 days this month.

A man has threatened to kill ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan on a Facebook live video uploaded on November 15 after 12am.

A writ petition was filed with the High Court today challenging the legality of government action for keeping quota system in appointing assistant teachers for government primary schools across the country.

Twenty-one 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).

As more women are becoming victims of cybercrimes, Bangladesh Police have launched a unit 'Police Cyber ​​Support for Women' to help them.

India’s import of rice bran oil from Bangladesh is set to double in the current financial year 2020-21, according to BV Mehta, executive director of Solvent Extractors’ Association of India.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of former Deputy Speaker Col (Retd) Shawkat Ali.

Col (retd) Shawkat Ali, former Deputy Speaker and one of the accused in the Agartala Conspiracy Case, passed away this morning. He was 83.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today refused to grant bail to BNP leader and former state minister for Civil Aviation Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin in a corruption case in which he was sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has told the Parliament that Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman formed Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League to unite the nation, but this idea was misinterpreted.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has refused to grant bail to Abu Naser Chowdhury, a convict in the sensational Commodore Ghulam Rabbani murder case.

A mobile court on Saturday night sentenced two poachers to one month imprisonment and fined seven others for killing an endangered hedgehog in

Tender tomato plants are drying up in the fields due to indiscriminate use of urea fertiliser, much to the worry of farmers in Mymensingh Sadar upazila.

For nearly four decades, encroachers and trespassers have been tightening their grip on about nine acres of lucrative land, belonging to Water Development Board (WDB), near Mohipur fish landing station in Kalapara upazila.