Brahmanbaria Chamber of Commerce and Industry is constructing a six-storey building on a leased land at Kumarshil Moar of Brahmanbaria town, allegedly in violation of the lease contact.

Passengers who have travelled to China in the last 14 days and have flu-like symptoms will be screened at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, airport authorities say.

A bill titled “Electoral Rolls (Amendment) Bill 2020” is placed in parliament aimed at extending the deadline for updating voters’ list till March 2 instead of January 31 every year.

Sampadak Parishad (Editors’ Council) expresses deep concerns over the recent events surrounding the issuance of arrest warrant against Prothom Alo Editor and Publisher Matiur Rahman and five of his colleagues.

A bill titled “Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation Bill, 2020” is placed in the parliament, aimed at offloading 49 per cent share of the organisation in the share market.

The cabinet division in principle approves that there will be no quota system in public services for 8th grade and above.

The country’s stock of gas reserves will be exhausted in 11 years at the current rate of production, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid tells parliament.

A government-appointed panel established in Myanmar to probe allegations of abuses in Rakhine state in 2017 that drew global outrage says they had found no evidence of genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority.

The Election Commission (EC) publishes the draft of an updated voter list with the registration of over 67 lakh new voters.

High Court (HC) has stayed the results of government primary school teacher recruitment tests in 14 districts for six months on charge of violations of the relevant rules.

Three people are arrested while trying to smuggle gold worth around Tk 6.60 crore into India through the bordering area of Benapole in Jashore, according to officials of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB).

The law enforcers have arrested a fugitive convict in an arms case after 27 years in Mirzapur upazila of Tangail.

Bangladeshi expats stage a demonstration in Canada’s Toronto, demanding punishment for those involved in laundering money from Bangladesh to the North American country.

Police cannot avoid responsibility if an accused dies by suicide in their custody, Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Md Shafiqul Islam says.

Two members of Neo-JMB -- an ultra-radical offshoot of the banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) -- were arrested for their alleged involvement with the attacks on police at five places in Dhaka last year.

The High Court today granted four-week anticipatory bail to Prothom Alo Editor Matiur Rahman in a case filed over the death of Naimul Abrar Rahat, a student of Dhaka Residential Model College.

Ten members of the banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (Huji) are sentenced to death by a Dhaka court in a case filed over bomb blasts at a CPB rally in 2001.

Father of a pre-teen rape victim in Sadar upazila alleged that he was being pressurised by the rapists and their family members to withdraw the case and reach a settlement out of the court.

A housewife and her five-year-old daughter were burnt alive when a fire broke out at their house in Beelmamudpur area of Faridpur Sadar upazila on Saturday night.

Atul Chandra Roy of Durakuti village in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila has earned the reputation of an ‘ideal vegetable farmer’ in the area, thanks to his use of organic method for cultiavtion.