Four strike forces have been formed to ensure security of the Kashimpur Central Jail at the directive of the prison administration.

Police have arrested an agent of a bKash fraud gang following a case filed against him with Pirojpur Sadar police station for passing on people’s bKash accounts details to the gang.

A garment worker has died after four of his co-workers pumped air into his body through the rectum in Manikganj said the local police.

Shah Ahmad Shafi, amir of Hefazat-e-Islam, resigned from the post of Director General of Al Jameyatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam Madrasa, popularly known as Hathazari madrasa, amid the student unrest over the last two days.

The people of Dharla River shoal in Kurigram and Lalmonirhat districts are badly affected by the fourth phase flood as the water flows above the danger level.

A Kuwait court has rejected Laxmipur-2 lawmaker Shahid Islam Papul’s plea for release and decided to postpone the trial of the accused in the case until October 1 after the hearing of a case accusing him of human trafficking, money laundering, bribing and threatening the state security.

In 2004, Channel i’s Hridoye Mati O Manush (Soil & People in Heart) featured a unique farmer; the programme was about a young entrepreneur who was cultivating Saudi dates on Bangladeshi soil at Paragaon village in Mymensingh’s Bhaluka upazila. Farmer Motaleb, the enterprising young man became hugely popular through this programme.

A court here on Tuesday sent the expelled chairman of Birgaon Union Parishad (UP) in Nabinagar upazila to jail, rejecting his bail prayer in a case for killing a rickshaw-puller during a clash on April 12.

Scientists at Bangladesh Wheat and Maize Research Institute (BWMRI) in Dinajpur have developed two new wheat varieties with built-in blast disease tolerance. The blast tolerant varieties will raise hope of the farmers across the country.

Negligence of the mosque's committee was behind the explosion at Baitus Salat Jame Mosque in Narayanganj Sadar upazila on September 4, found a probe committee formed by Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited.

Renowned Bangladeshi neurologist, academic and neuro-medicine specialist Professor Dr Quazi Deen Mohammad, also the founding director of National Institute of Neurosciences and Hospital in Dhaka, has placed himself in quarantine.

20 kilometers away from Dhaka, Zinda is unlike any other village. A place where people themselves built a school, a five-story library, community clinic, five lakes, a field, a mosque with an Eidgah, restaurants, and dormitories. They’ve also cultivated around 25,000 plants of about 250 different species.

While a good number of candidates has become frustrated as many of them had crossed maximum age limit for government job during the lockdown period, the latest directive from Ministry of Public Administration (MoPA) brings a ray of hope.

Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad said the government has taken the initiative to provide training to Bangladeshi migrant workers currently living abroad with an aim to create skilled workforce.

The Ministry of Education orders the closure of Al Jameyatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam Madrasa, popularly known as Hathazari madrasa, in Chattogram’s Hathazari upazila until further notice.

The government is going to impose a 22-day ban on catching, selling, hoarding and transporting of hilsa from October 14 to November 4 to protect safe spawning of the fish during its peak breeding period.

Negligence of Titas Gas authorities and the mosque’s committee was behind the explosion at Baitus Salat Jame Mosque in Sadar upazila on September 4, according to the report of a probe body formed by the Narayanganj district administration to investigate the incident.

The Rohingya crisis requires a political solution, which lies in the return of the Rohingyas to Myanmar by addressing the root causes, said Bangladesh’s Permanent Representative to UN Ambassador Rabab Fatima.

The price of onion has started declining in the market due to government measures, commerce ministry says.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today seized Tk 42 lakh from the bank account of former Cox’s Bazar municipality councillor Javed Md Kaisar Nobel.