An armed gang abducted a union parishad (UP) member from his house in Rangamati’s Kaptai upazila early yesterday.

A court here on Tuesday sentenced three people to death and another to life term imprisonment for killing a man over a disputed pond in Birampur upazila in 2011.

A group of locals, whose structures near the Dhamai river in Barlekha upazila were demolished by local administration, alleged that they have been victims of political vindictiveness.

An illegal gas line racket in three upazilas of Brahmanbaria has been plundering natural gas worth crores of taka from gas supply lines each month.

During the mid-80s, I got engaged with Bangladesh Television’s agricultural documentary programme Mati O Manush (Soil & People).

Five people of a family have been stabbed in an attack allegedly by a group of local Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) men in Araihazar upazila of Narayanganj.

At least 10 people are injured in a clash between two factions of the ruling Awami League over establishing supremacy in Saltha upazila of Faridpur.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against former transport minister Nazmul Huda for bringing false allegation against former chief justice SK Sinha.

Grameenphone has offered Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Tk 100 crore against the much-discussed audit claim. The regulatory body has refused the offer.

Bangladesh has called for an end to infighting among the Muslim Ummah, saying development is a priority as it may solve many problems automatically.

The two-day annual election of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) for its 14 executive posts, including that of its president and secretary, will be held on March 11 and 12.

Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Mohammad Shafiqul Islam says there is no possibility of any militant attack and act of sabotage centring the International Mother Language Day and Shaheed Dibosh on February 21.

A Jhalakathi court sentences two to life in jail in connection with a case filed for the 2005 series bomb blasts in the district.

A union parishad member has been abducted by an armed group from his residence in Rangamati’s Kaptai upazila.

One woman was killed and five others injured after a bulldozer working on expansion of a railway line in Cumilla lost control and rammed into two autorickshaws.

An Education Ministry meeting on public universities’ uniform admission test is postponed.

The Supreme Court has fined City University Tk 10 lakh for enrolling more than 50 students to the law department each semester, in violation of the University Grants Commission’s decision.

Two alleged robbers have been killed in a gunfight with rivals near Barunatail Bridge in Magura Sadar upazila, police say.

Commercial cultivation of cassia-leaf, locally called tejpata, is gaining popularity day by day in Jhenidah’s Kaliganj upazila as the item gives good profit compared to other crops.

As a makeshift arrangement, a wooden bridge with bamboo poles on the Sumeswari river in Netrakona’s Durgapur upazila has been made for the first time to ease people’s longstanding sufferings.