Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has requested Myanmar Police Force to remove improvised explosive devices (IED) or mines from the bordering areas, the paramilitary force’s Director General (DG) Maj Gen Md Shafeenul Islam says.

“Very important” persons like ministers and lawmakers cannot take part in election activities and campaign ahead of the Dhaka city corporation polls, Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukder says.

Saudi Arabia has deported another 132 Bangladeshi workers, including five women, on Tuesday night.

Various human rights and socio-cultural organisations believe it is a culture of impunity that has lead to a recurrence in violent incidents including sexual harassment and rape in the country.

Teachers and students of Dhaka University have demanded speedy trial and capital punishment for the person who raped and tortured a second-year student of the university in Dhaka’s Kurmitola on Sunday night.

The High Court releases full text of its verdict that confirmed death penalty for 139 accused and upheld life imprisonment of 185 others for their involvement in the massacre during the BDR mutiny in 2009.

The Dhaka University student who was raped and tortured in Dhaka’s Kurmitola area on the night of January 5 has identified the rapist after his arrest.

The roads in Mahendranagar union of Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila are gradually becoming barren, thanks to rampant tree looting allegedly by ruling party men.

To cultivate fish in Vuter Khal (canal), a group of local influential people have set up illegal bamboo enclosures halting natural flow of the canal in Barishal’s Mehendiganj upazila.

Some local influential people are running at least 10 illegal landing stations just beside two rail bridges and a highway bridge over the Meghna at Ashuganj in the district while a syndicate of illegal sand traders have set pipelines by cutting roads in the area.

A court here on Monday sentenced four men to death for killing a businessman in 2014.

Robbers took away gold ornaments and cash from a jewellery shop at Sathi Road in Madhupur upazila headquarters on Monday night.

A minor boy was burnt to death while warming himself near a fire at Char Khalilpur village in Pabna’s Sujanagar upazila yesterday.

“You can carry a sack of paddy; then why can’t you carry your daughter upstairs [to the classroom]?”

Demanding arrest of perpetrators who led Thursday’s attack on four journalists in Bhuapur upazila, journalists from different media outlets yesterday formed separate human chains in Tangail.

Untimely rain for the last couple of days damaged huge quantities of unbaked bricks that were piled up in the open sky for drying at many brick kilns in different upazilas of the district.

The Bangladesh Bank has issued a circular increasing one percent special cash incentive on export receipts of apparel items from the country, which was pending since July last year.

The Election Commission did not find any proof against the allegation of violating electoral code of conduct by Awami League-backed mayoral aspirant Atiqul Islam to Dhaka North City Corporation election scheduled for January 30.

A Dhaka court has rejected a bail petition filed by Abdur Rakib Khan Bappi, a sub-inspector (SI) of Mirpur Police Station, in connection with a rape case.

Bangladesh Hindu-Bouddha-Christian Oikya Parishad urges the Election Commission (EC) to hold Dhaka north and south city corporations’ elections on another date instead of January 30 as Saraswati Puja will be held on that day.