Police yesterday arrested a man in connection with the murders of his wife and daughter in Mymensingh city on Wednesday.

Gaibandha District and Sessions Judge’s Court yesterday awarded death sentence to three persons and five years’ jail term to eight others in the case for murdering the teenage son of Gobindaganj municipality mayor.

Cultivation of turmeric, ginger and other spices, alongside other primary crops, are gaining popularity in the Teesta river chars of Sundarganj upazila.

The carpeting of newly renovated five-kilometre Mohiskhocha-Burirhat road in Lalmonirhat’s Aditmari upazila is getting damaged as the work under Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) was done allegedly without doing sufficient strengthening work.

Construction and renovation work of an important road in Basail upazila could not be completed even after eight months of its stipulated deadline due to alleged negligence of the contractor concerned.

Thousands of villagers are suffering a lot as a 150-foot-long bridge on Sutabaria canal in Patuakhali’s Dashmina upazila has remained unused since a portion of the bridge collapsed over three years ago.

Jatiya Oikyafront convener Kamal Hossain today says holding polls to two Dhaka City corporations on the day of Saraswati Puja is an unjust act.

Admitting that the people suffered a lot due to skyrocketing prices of onion, Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque in parliament has assured that such problem will not be there in the next year.

“I made a mistake by not killing her,” rape accused Majnu confesses to a magistrate. In his statement, Majnu also confesses that he alone raped the young woman, a student of Dhaka University, in the capital’s Kurmitola area.

The High Court advises Green Line Paribahan and Russel Sarker, who lost his leg after a bus of the company ran him over in April 2018, to settle the issue outside the court by providing compensation to Russel.

"Going [to] BD after 24 years", read the Facebook status of Bangladeshi expatriate living in the US Ruhul Amin. However, before he could reach his home in Sylhet's Beanibazar, he died in a road accident on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway in Brahmanbaria on Wednesday night. The accident also injured four more members of the family.

Tabith Awal, BNP’s mayoral candidate for the Dhaka North City Corporation election, says people were not ready to cast their votes using the Electronic Voting Machine (EVMs) in the election scheduled for January 30.

Several MPs in parliament come down heavily on Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque saying the minister cannot avoid responsibility for publishing the faulty list of Razakers.

No new dengue patients were admitted to any hospital across the country during the last 24 hours, for the first time in the last nine months, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said today.

BNP-backed mayoral candidate for Dhaka South City Corporation polls, Ishraque Hossain says that the government is sensing a mass support for “sheaf of paddy” in the upcoming city election, and is behaving outrageously.

A rights organisation serves a legal notice on the government requesting it to scrap in seven days the Section of the Public Service Act which provides that a civil servant will not be dismissed from the job unless he or she is sentenced to at least one-year imprisonment for any criminal offence.

A woman has been arrested in a case filed over the gang rape of an eighth grader in Gazipur.

A petition has been filed with the Supreme Court seeking its directives on the Election Commission (EC) to stay Dhaka north and south city corporations’ polls on January 30 as it coincides with Saraswati Puja.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says the lawmakers who demanded crossfire for the rapists expressed their personal opinions at the parliament.

Rail communication on the Mymensingh-Chattogram route resumes after almost nine hours of suspension following the derailment of a train in Gouripur upazila of Mymensingh.