A murder case is filed against the factory owner with South Keraniganj Police Station in connection with yesterday’s fire at a plastic factory in Keraniganj that claimed a total of 12 lives so far.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says that the entire nation was stunned over the Supreme Court's judgement that rejected its Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s bail prayer in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case.

Myanmar urges the UN top court to drop the application for provisional measures in Rakhine by the Gambia from its list.

Construction work of the third terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka will begin on December 28, Air Vice Marshal Mafidur Rahman, chairman of Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh,says.

Rejecting BNP's alleged doubt over the medical report on its party Chairperson Khaleda Zia, Law Minister Anisul Huq says six judges of the Appellate Division have delivered the order after examining all the documents including medical report.

The Gambia criticises Myanmar civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi for her "silence" over "awe serial violations" of Rohingya women and girls and defending Myanmar at the UN's top court.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) arrests 13 people for their alleged involvement in a corruption case in the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) housing project in Pabna.

The trial run for direct bus services on Dhaka-Gangtok and Dhaka-Darjeeling routes via Siliguri kicked off this evening to boost cross-border commercial services in the region.

The scheduled visit of Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen to New Delhi has been cancelled due to his ‘busy schedule’ at home ahead of Martyred Intellectuals Day and Victory Day, says a senior official.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) seeks President Abdul Hamid’s intervention to remove the chief election commissioner and other commissioners of the Election Commission in order to reform the constitutional body for what the anti-graft watchdog said its various irregularities.

Jagannath University (JnU) asks all of its departments to halt new enrolment for the evening courses until further order.

The Gambia tells the UN’s highest court that Myanmar's promise of initiating repatriation process for the Rohingyas was a blatant fraud.

A practical examination for the admission seekers of Jatiya Kabi Nazrul Islam University (JKNNU) in Mymensigh is postponed for an indefinite period as some students locked the main gate of the university’s administrative building protesting a probe against a teacher.

At least 100 jute mill workers fall ill as thousands of workers and their family members of nine state-owned jute mills in Khulna are observing indefinite hunger strike for the third consecutive day.

Eleven employees including an engineer, who are severely burnt in yesterday’s factory fire in Keraniganj, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, raising the death toll to 12.

A fire gutted at least 17 houses at Nilkantho village in Belgachha union of Kurigram Sadar upazila early yesterday.

A colourful procession was brought out in the city yesterday to make Mymensingh division free from child marriage.

Basic civic amenities still elude the residents of Bandarban town, 35 years after it started functioning as a municipality.

A level crossing near Mohimaganj railway station has remained without gate and gateman for long, posing risk of accidents, thanks to the authorities’ ignorance of the matter.

The elderly pensioners in Tangail are faced with immense sufferings every month as they have to wait long hours in queues to collect their allowances.