A suspected member of fake question paper-leaking ring is arrested in Patuakhali.

Hamida Begum became the first sex worker from a brothel in Daulatdia to receive a formal Islamic funeral, breaking a longstanding taboo in Muslim majority Bangladesh where prostitution is legal but regarded by many as immoral.

Students have demonstrated at Rajshahi University demanding exemplary punishment for those accused in a rape case filed by one of their fellows.

Another Rohingya man has been rescued from the sea near St Martin’s Island, after around 24 hours of the trawler capsize incident that left 15 Rohingyas dead early yesterday.

A member of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) was stabbed allegedly by a suspected smuggler in Panchbibi upazila of Joypurhat early yesterday.

A Lalmonirhat court yesterday sent a man, 56, to jail after he was produced before it for raping his disabled daughter-in-law in Kaliganj upazila.

A man on Monday got life term imprisonment for killing his mother in Habiganj while two others were awarded the same for a murder in Rajbari.

Classes at Bagerhat Government High School and Bagerhat Government Girls’ High School are hampered as the two important institutions in the district town are running with much less than required number of teachers.

Hundreds of people have been suffering since a portion of the bridge on a canal connecting to the Sumeswari river in Netrakona’s Durgapur upazila collapsed over three years ago.

Farmers who used to grow tobacco only a few years ago in char areas of the Dhaleshwari river in Nagarpur upazila, have started growing vegetables there.

Two more people in Singapore, including another Bangladeshi worker, have been infected with coronavirus, The Straits Times reports.

From a group of people actively participating in discussions on social media on topics ranging from social and policy-related issues, to turning it into a forum to bring about change, the Youth Policy Forum has indeed come quite far.

At least 28, 832 posts for headmasters and assistant teachers remain vacant in different primary schools as of December 2019, the State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Zakir Hossain today said in the parliament.

A five-year-old boy is burned alive during a freak accident at Debiganj in Panchagarh.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s sister Selima Islam has made a humanitarian call to the government for releasing the party chief, paving the way for her advanced treatment.

Jaima Newaz Tisha, a child who lost the toes on her right leg after a launch, MV Yead, hit her at Fatullah launch terminal on December 2017, has received Tk 3 lakh for treatment from the owner of the launch.

The High Court refuses to grant bail to suspended director of Anti-Corruption Commission Khandaker Enamul Basir in a case filed over transaction of Tk 40 lakh as bribe.

Forty-four percent women of the ethnic minority communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) have experienced violence at home at least once in their lifetime, a survey by Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) has revealed.

A suspected drug trader is killed in a “gunfight” between detectives and drug traders in Naogaon, after his arrest from Manda upazila.

Today is the 19th death anniversary of Tawfiq Aziz Khan, former executive editor of The Daily Star, sports writer and commentator.