The High Court rejects two separate petitions seeking bail of Rashedul Haque Chisty, son of Mahbubul Haque Chisty, former chairman of Farmers Bank audit committee, in two corruption cases filed on charges of misappropriating and laundering Tk 230 crore of the bank funds.

Starting from 12:01am on February 1, vehicular movement will be restricted till 6pm that day for Dhaka City Corporation elections.

Countries are supposed to make a ‘tentative list’ of sites eligible to be a Unesco World Heritage Site every year, but Bangladesh has not done so in 20 years.

A locally improvised vehicle driver is killed as his vehicle overturned after police chased it in Tala upazila of Satkhira.

A BNP delegation meets Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda and alleged of having no level-playing field ahead of the upcoming Dhaka north and south city corporation elections scheduled for February 1.

Indian immigration at Agartala checkpost allegedly refused entry to a Bangladeshi national, owing to his travel to China around two months back.

A woman and her nephew died following fever in a village of Munshiganj, setting off panic among locals.

A light tremor jolts Sylhet and its adjoining areas. The 4.1 magnitude earthquake was felt around 1:10pm.

The Election Commission should carry out an investigation behind yesterday’s clash during the campaign of BNP’s DSCC mayor candidate Ishraque Hossain in Wari, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says.

Rapid Action Battalion says they held eight members of a gang that used to traffic women to different dance clubs and bars in countries in Middle East Asia.

A teacher of Kumrihat SC High School in Lalmonirhat’s Aditmari upazila on Saturday filed a general diary (GD) with Aditmari Police Station, seeking protection after harassment and threat allegedly by the school’s headmaster and his men.

Farmers in seven upazilas of the district are getting more interested in cultivation of green pea in the fallow land, considering it as a bonus crop between Aman and Boro seasons.

With government drives against river encroachers on the wane, soil from the banks of the Bhairab river is being stolen in Meherpur’s Mujibnagar upazila.

Once flowing Rajapur canal in Jhalakathi is nearly dead now, thanks to the mindless encroachment and pollution by locals on both sides of the waterbody.

The body of college student, who went missing on Tuesday, was found floating in a pond in Trishal upazila yesterday.

Four help desks will be set up at 700 police stations to expand the services delivered by the police emergency helpline 999, Inspector General of Police Dr Mohammad Javed Patwary says.

A man slits the throat of his two-year-old in Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila allegedly as his wife refused to give him money to buy drugs.

Top policymakers of BNP have told diplomats that there is no level-playing field ahead of the elections to the Dhaka north and south city corporations scheduled for February 1.

Visas of over 93,000 Bangladeshi migrant workers in United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Egypt, South Korea and Iran have expired, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen informs the parliament.

Customs House Chattogram has seized two containers of cigarettes and chocolates which were falsely declared as either mushrooms or sweetcorn.