Vast tracts of agricultural land in Lalmonirhat are losing fertility as owners of brick kilns, no less than 47 in total, are allegedly compelling landowners to sell topsoil from their farmlands.

A woman allegedly killed her newborn for being female at Nohail village in Birganj upazila yesterday.

A case has been filed against unidentified people in connection with the death of a married couple in Faridpur Sadar upazila.

Police recovered the body of a college girl in Bhaluka upazila on Monday night.

Students of different Medical Assistant Training School (MATS) in Tangail took to the town streets on Monday in solidarity with the deaths of their two fellows in a road accident on Sunday and demanding safe road.

Police yesterday recovered the bodies of a woman and her minor son, who went missing after a tourist boat capsized in the Karnaphuli river under Kaptai upazila on Friday, from Rangunia upazila of Chattogram, after four days of the incident.

Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs is to distribute foods among orphans and destitute children every month during the Mujib Year.

A man has been killed and four others injured when a part of a concrete structure fell on them during an eviction drive by Bangladesh Railway (BR) at Sararchar Railway Station in Kishoreganj’s Bajitpur upazila.

Terming Dhaka Wasa’s proposal of tariff hike “unjust and unacceptable”, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) demands to set the tariff through public hearing with experts of the concerned sector.

Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun tells parliament that Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) found no formalin or any other chemicals in about 600 samples of fruits it tested in 2019.

BNP’s acting chairman Tarique Rahman and eight others have been sued for making derogatory comments against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

The imam who broke tradition to lead the funeral prayers for a sex worker in Daulatdia in the beginning of this month today said he will never do the same again, according to BBC Bangla.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has once again sought bail on health grounds in Zia Charitable Trust graft case.

Body of a seven-year-old girl was recovered from Manik Hajirtola village of Chapainawabganj Sadar upazila, police said.

A Rohingya woman has been beaten to death by two others in their camp at Teknaf upazila in Cox’s Bazar.

After keeping them confined for 10 hours, the agitating students of Patuakhali Science and Technology University (PSTU) have let their vice-chancellor and some 50 teachers go.

A suspected drug peddler is killed in a reported gunfight between two groups of drug dealers in Bachaganj upazila of Dinajpur, police say.

Abandoned by her sons, shunned by her neighbours and branded a witch. Mosammat Rashida's crime? Her husband was killed by a Bengal tiger.

Students of Patuakhali Science and Technology University (PSTU) confine the university’s vice-chancellor and around 50 teachers to the university’s administrative building, demanding that the suspensions of 15 students for ragging be reversed.

At least 21 people were injured in a clash between two rival groups over establishing supremacy at Choto Nowdubi village in Nagarkanda upazila of the district yesterday morning.