The High Court has directed the government to include names of 208 freedom fighters in the official gazette and take necessary steps to give them monthly allowances.

Bangladesh has sought from the Philippines the identities of the perpetrators involved in Bangladesh Bank heist, says Masud bin Momen, secretary (Asia Pacific) of the foreign ministry.

The Supreme Court has set January 14 to deliver verdict on an appeal filed by convicted war criminal Syed Mohammad Qaisar challenging the death penalty handed to him by a war crimes tribunal in 2014.

Production at nine state-owned jute mills in Khulna-Jashore industrial belt has come to a halt as workers started a 24-hours work abstention to press home their 11-point demand, including payment of their dues and implementation of their new wage board.

Ragging leading to death, serious “bodily harm”, any form of disability, permanent mental imbalance or trauma, disruption of academic life of any Buet student will lead to expulsion of those involved in the act.

These days the farmers in Nilphamari call ginger by the name “magical crop.”

A helper of a bus was held on charge of attempting to rape a seven-year-old girl at Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University campus in Trishal upazila yesterday.

One year into the brutal killing of three farmers at Taluk Haridas village in Lalmonirhat’s Aditmari upazila, five of the seven named accused in the murder case are yet to be arrested.

The deputy commissioner of Chandpur had to engage himself in crowd control yesterday when hundreds poured in at his office premises and bought three tonnes of onion at Tk 45 per kilogram.

November 20, 1911 is the date of birth of Gazar Uddin as per his national ID. The affable gentleman, however, claims that he is 125 not 108.

Four people are arrested for allegedly attempting to rape a madrasa girl in Kalapara upazila of Patuakhali today.

Masudur Rahman Rubel, an apprentice assistant commissioner and executive magistrate of Chattrogram district, is sued under the Dowry Prohibition Act.

Four death-row convicts including sacked madrasa principal Siraj Ud Doula in Nusrat Jahan Rafi murder case file separate appeals with the High Court seeking their acquittal.

A Himalayan Griffon Vulture is rescued from Gabtali upazila of Bogura.

The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC) has arranged USD1.3 billion financing for Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) to set up its Ghorasal Polash Urea Fertilizer Project (GPUFP).

The Supreme Court upholds a High Court order that issued a ban on the inspection and training activities of Nirapon, an alliance of North American readymade garments (RMG) buyers in Bangladesh.

Information Minister Hasan Mahmud says process to register online news portals will start from the next week.

Petrol pump owners and workers have postponed their indefinite strike in three divisions till December 15.

The recruiting agencies of Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia will shoulder all responsibilities of female workers as long as they remain in the kingdom.

A section of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) of Chittagong University postpones their indefinite strike, giving the authorities concerned a three-day ultimatum to meet their demands.