At least 15 people have died as a trawler sank in the Bay of Bengal near St Martin's Island while trying to go to Malaysia illegally.

A mobile court sentences one youth to one month’s jail term and fines another Tk 5,000 for harassing a woman passenger on a bus on her way to Natore from Rajshahi.

Farmers in Faridpur Sadar upazila are opting for arum cultivation as it is more profitable than the other vegetable items.

Water scarcity may affect Boro cultivation this season on 700 acres of land in Sadar union of Kamalganj upazila.

Farmers of Kashimpur village in Birganj upazila of Dinajpur formed a human chain on the dried up bed of the Atrai river yesterday demanding that the authorities postpone leaving the dredged mud there till harvest of the crops cultivated there.

Tea workers under the banner of Bangladesh Cha Sramik Federation have reiterated the demand for setting Tk 400 as their minimum daily wage and proper implementation of labour laws in the industry.

Bumper yield and fair prices have brought smile to potato growers in Manikganj.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque says around 90,245 people were screened at airports, river, sea and land ports of the country as of February 10 in the wake of coronavirus outbreak in China.

A Rajshahi court has placed a student of Rajshahi University (RU) on two-day remand in a case filed over the alleged rape and blackmail of a female student of the university.

The government has taken measures to bring the country under a Geographic Information System (GIS) and to install the Internet of Things (IoT) to make the National Emergency Service-999 more effective.

Police have rescued a boy and arrested four people who abducted him in Dinajpur after responding to a call to emergency helpline 999.

Three persons sustain burns after an air-conditioner compressor exploded and caused a fire in old Dhaka’s Islampur.

Ahead of “Mujib Borsho” celebrations, the Supreme Court Legal Aid Committee (SCLAC) has taken an initiative to provide legal aid to poor and helpless currently who have been in jail for more than five years and are currently under trial across the country.

The cabinet approves in principle a draft of the “Narcotics (Amendment) Act, 2020” keeping a provision of holding the trial of drug-related cases in competent courts instead of tribunals.

One person is arrested in connection with the murder of AKM Nurul Azam Chowdhury, a former sub-inspector and a freedom fighter in Chattogram’s Raozan upazila.

A court in Habiganj sentences a man to life term imprisonment for killing his mother in 2004 in Noahati village in Madhabpur upazila.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says the victory of Bangladesh in the ICC Under-19 World Cup is a gift for the nation in Mujib Borsho.

The Supreme Court stays for eight weeks a High Court verdict that cancelled appointments of three teachers of Crop Science and Technology Department of Rajshahi University.

Declaring gambling illegal across the country, the High Court directs the government to stop any game which is played in exchange of money and involves luck or chance.

The High Court has confirmed the death penalty for five operatives of banned outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) for killing a public prosecutor of Jhalakati, Advocate Haider Hossain, in 2007.