Six persons have been sued on charges of gang raping a housewife in Chandpur’s Sadar upazila on Saturday night.

A Dhaka court today placed Adib Hossain Mollah, a member of suspected human trafficking gang, on a two-day remand in a case filed for attempting to send four women to Canada with fake visas.

Parents of the ninth grader who was arrested on Saturday under the Digital Security Act for allegedly defaming Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in a Facebook post, have apologised for their son’s mistake and sought his release.

A bill titled Adalat Kartik Tathiya Projukti Bebohar (Use of Information Technology by Court- Bill 2020) was placed in the national parliament today to empower the country’s courts to run trial proceedings through video conferences and other digital means using information technology.

Criticising BNP MP Harunur Rashid for claiming to be the “main opposition”, Opposition Chief Whip Mashiur Rahman Ranga today demanded that the speaker of parliament give a ruling clarifying who the opposition is.

A bill titled “The Air Transport (Montreal Convention 1999) Bill 2020” was placed in parliament today paving the way for an air passenger to get some US$ 160,000 (Tk 1.4 crore) as compensation in case of death in air accident.

UN and other aid agencies are concerned that the monsoon will exacerbate an already precarious situation in the Rohingya camps where almost 860,000 refugees live in overcrowded conditions, many situated in hazardous terrain.

A Dhaka University (DU) student was found dead on Sunday night in Natore, allegedly murdered by her husband’s family, and two people -- including her mother-in-law -- has been arrested in this connection last night.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh has said the city corporation is ready to implement the decision of area-based lockdown within 48 to 72 hours of announcement.

Three people were killed and two were burnt in a fire caused by a gas cylinder explosion in Hatia upazila of Noakhali last night.

A total of 269 people, most of whom are Bangladeshi expatriates, left Dhaka for Italy aboard a special chartered flight of Biman today.

The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (Amendment) Bill, 2020 has been placed in the Parliament today to empower the BERC to make change in tariff more than once per financial year.

Indian daily Anandabazar Patrika has sought unconditional apology for using the word “khairati” in a recent news that described how China is attracting Bangladesh after the Indo-China clashes in Ladakh.

A 12-year-old Bangladeshi boy, a suspected victim of human trafficking, has been found by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) in a railway wagon at Petrapole in West Bengal, and handed over to Indian Railway police.

Bangladesh has taken many positive initiatives towards inclusion in education but needs to do more in removing remaining barriers, says a new global report.

An alleged drug peddler has been killed in a "shootout" with members of Rapid Action Battalion in Gazipur's Tongi upazila.

Malaysia will not hire any new foreign workers until the year’s end, the country’s leading newspaper The Star has reported quoting its Human Resources Minister M Saravanan.

The cyclone Amphan destroyed a number of households and vast tract of cropland. It also crushed the last strands of hope for many vegetable farmers in Kalapara upazila of the district amid ithe Covid-19 pandemic.

Waterlogging disrupts crop cultivation on over a thousand acres of land in a shallow waterbody at Pashchimchak in between Ahmedpur and Raninagar unions in Pabna’s Sujanagar upazila.

Bangladesh, being a major labour-exporting country, should raise its voice to realise the unpaid dues of the country’s migrant workers, many of whom have been repatriated arbitrarily in wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, migration experts and advocacy groups have said.