Boro cultivation on around 1500 bighas of land is hampered due to overflowing of Majdia beel (waterbody) as a consequence of building an embankment at the mouth of Sonalidanga canal in Kaliganj upazila of Jhenidah.

Potato growers in two northern districts -- Thakurgaon and Panchagarh -- are struggling a lot to save their potato plants and worried about the yield of the winter vegetable this season as the ongoing adverse weather have caused the outbreak of late blight disease in many areas.

While many rivers in the country are dying slowly due to encroachment, several others, such as the Ratna and Shutki in Baniachong upazila of Habiganj, are facing a different predicament -- being robbed of all their aquatic life.

Police detain two men over the gang-rape of a sixth-grade madrasa student in Rajapur area of Jhalakathi on Sunday.

A former leader of Chittagong University unit Chhatra League has been missing for three days from the city’s Moghbazar area.

The country’s police force has largely become people-friendly now, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says.

Staffers of Labaid Hospital and Concord Shopping Mall Owners Association members lock into a clash in the capital's Dhanmondi, that left some 12 people injured, one of them critically.

Police arrest two people for beating up a man who brought witnesses of a rape incident upon police orders on Friday in Pabna Sadar upazila.

Malaysia is sending back a container full of plastic waste to Bangladesh. The authorities are sending back a total of 150 containers imported from 13 countries including Bangladesh as the consignment had non-recyclable plastic.

Two people, including a local Jubo League leader, were arrested today in a case filed over the rape of a madrasa student in Sadar upazila of Narayanganj.

High Court has rejected a petition filed by Ayesha Siddika Minni seeking cancellation of the trial proceedings in a case filed against her over the murder of her husband Rifat Sharif.

India’s Border Security Forces (BSF) has objected to construction of an immigration office building at Akhaura land port in Brahmanbaria, according to a letter it sent to its Bangladesh counterpart recently.

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved a Tk 20,525.69 crore project to set up 329 technical schools and colleges in the upazila level in a bid to create skilled manpower in the country.

Body of a Bangladeshi youth has been recovered from Mominpara border in the northern district of Panchagarh.

With help of locals, police rescue a black vulture from Ramchandrapur union under Sadar upazila in Gaibandha.

Awami League lawmaker from Jashore-6 and former State Minister for Public Administration Ismat Ara Sadique passes away at a hospital in Dhaka.

Mirzapur police arrested a fugitive convict in an arms case after 27 years of his conviction.

Schooling of a child from Harijan community has been saved, thanks to the intervention of the upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) of Kulaura in Moulvibazar.

Among eight squirrel species in the world, Malayan, the world’s largest squirrel, is found in Rema-Kalenga forest of Habiganj’s Chunarughat upazila.

Saidur Rahman is a village doctor by profession. But he was struggling to make ends meet with the money he earned by serving the people of Ramnatherbhita village in Gaibandha Sadar upazila.