The High Court summoned Chattogram’s Third Joint District Judge Sarkar Kabir Uddin, directing him to appear before it on March 31 for ignoring an HC stay order and continuing trial proceedings of a land-related case.

The government is taking steps to protect the centuries-old mansion of the Pailgaon Chowdhurys -- once a notable zamindar family in the region, in present day Jagannathpur upazila of Sunamganj.

At least eleven people, including two students of a private university and three staffers of a media organisation, have died allegedly from alcohol poisoning in Dhaka and Bogura district over the last 48 hours.

The World Bank will provide Bangladesh with USD 500 million for developing rural connectivity, market, and logistic infrastructure in light of the economic prospect created with the construction of the Padma Bridge.

A Bangladeshi man was injured, allegedly from shots fired by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Ratnai border in Thakurgaon’s Baliadangi upazila today.

Police recovered the body of a teenage boy from Tarakanda upazila of the district on Saturday.

Criminals took away cultivated mustard from a farmer’s land at Jadurchar Purbapara village in Kurigram’s Roumari Upazila on Saturday.

A carpenter in Melandah upazila of Jamalpur have showed his intimate love for Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, making a chair setting the portrait of the Father of the Nation.

Dried fish or shutki, made out of fish caught in Chalan Beel region in Natore, is quite popular across the country for its taste and quality. Driven by the demand, its production in the region is also on the rise.

In her second attempt as a councillor aspirant from reserved seat, Kalaroa’s Dithi Khatun, a member of the transgender community, won in the municipality election.

The lowest temperature -- 5.5 degree Celsius -- of the country was recorded at Rejarhat in Kurigram today, according to Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD).

Five people were killed and two others were injured in a collision between a truck and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Sherpur Sadar upazila this morning.

Awami League backed candidates won all the five municipalities in Tangail in yesterday’s election.

Important civic amenities like safe drinking water, garbage management still remain a far cry for Tangail municipality dwellers.

Twelve Bangladeshi nationals, including three teenagers and two children, returned from India through Benapole check-post yesterday after serving three years in Indian jail.

With the departments of environment (DoE) and livestock (DLS) in their slumbers, unauthorised large-scale poultry farms are springing up on agricultural land in rural areas of Madhabpur upazila under Habiganj.

The envoys of Turkey, China and India to Bangladesh have highly praised Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic.

As news trickles in of AL-backed candidates winning in the municipalities’ mayoral elections, two rebel candidates of Awami League, who ran independently, defied the norm and won in Golapganj and Zakiganj upazilas in Sylhet.

Awami League candidates won in the elections of five municipalities today as vote counting began in the third phase election to 62 municipalities across the country.

Police have arrested an upazila level Awami League leader on charge of occupying a polling centre during Tangail’s Bhuiyanpur municipality election today.