Customs officials claim to have detained two persons with around 4kg of gold worth Tk 2 crore in separate drives at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been ranked the 29th among the 100 most powerful women in the world by the US-based Forbes magazine.

Rapid Action Battalion arrest four people and recovered around 8.10 lakh Yaba pills form their possessions in Rangikhali area of Teknaf.

Rapid Action Battalion arrest Abul Kashem alias Hashu, the alleged ‘ringleader’ of the Hashu-Kashu Bahini, an organised criminal gang at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar of Dhaka.

Detectives claim to have detained two members of a fraud group from Gulistan area of Dhaka.

The United Nations human rights office voices concern that India’s new citizenship law is “fundamentally discriminatory in nature” by excluding Muslims and called for it to be reviewed.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe postpones his India trip amid ongoing violent protest in northeastern state of Assam over the much-talked-about Citizenship (Amendment) Act.

There is no scope of any debate over the dismissal of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s bail petition in a graft case as the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court passed its order after scrutinising all related documents, says Law Minister Anisul Huq.

Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Oikya Parishad expresses concern over the Citizenship Amendment Bill passed by Indian government as it will “encourage minority people to leave Bangladesh”.

Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming has said China hopes to see an early repatriation of Rohingyas and an eventual solution to the problem saying they want to see the results that will come out from the court in The Hague.

Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka Abu Saleh Mohammad Ferdous Khan calls upon the utility service providers including gas and electricity suppliers to check necessary documents before providing their services to any factory.

Immigration to India through Tamabil land customs station in Gowainghat upazila of Sylhet is suspended as protests grew in the country over the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill.

Valiant freedom fighters of Manikganj, then a sub-division, liberated their motherland on this day in 1971 with hoisting the national flag atop Primary Training Institute in the district headquarters.

Looking at the yogurt tubs made by Bogura’s potters, it is difficult to imagine that the ceramics industry once flourished in the region.

The triannual council of Lalmonirhat district unit of Awami League (AL) was held at the district council auditorium in the town on Wednesday after seven years while the council of Kurigram AL was held yesterday, report our correspondents.

Although a new pontoon and jetty lie at Kalapara launch ghat, its leaser is not using the terminal for launches for long.

Suchitra Rani’s father Santosh Chandra, a village doctor in Tangail’s Gopalpur upazila, died when she was taking Higher Secondary Examinations in May.

Communications with Harinakundo upazila town have been immensely difficult for thousands of inhabitants in 10 villages in the upazila for the last two years.

Vegetable growers in Lalmonirhat are earning more than expected profits from selling their produces this season.

Journalists held a programme on Shaheed Minar Road in Habiganj’s Baniachong upazila yesterday demanding immediate arrest of the culprit who gave death threat to a local newsman.