Greece has briefed Bangladesh on current developments concerning the European Union as well as issues of concern to their region, the Mediterranean, the Western Balkans and migration.

Fire gutted jute worth Tk one crore at a jute mill in Rangpur’s Mithapukur upazila yesterday.

A Kishoreganj court on Monday sentenced a man to death and six others for life term imprisonment for killing a farmer in Katiadi upazila in 2011.

A rare porcupine was killed in a road crash in Lawachhara forest under Kamalganj upazila of the district early yesterday.

A local drug addict was stabbed to death in Talpukur area of Sadar upazila on Monday night.

A two-year-old boy met tragic death when he fell onto a road from his mother’s lap and was run over under the wheels of a bus in Birganj upazila of the district on Monday.

Two students in Kushtia will sit for their JSC (Junior School Certificate) examinations in the night time, instead of the usual time from morning to afternoon, on two Saturdays as the authorities of Jashore Education Board accepted their petitions due to religious reasons.

Badly hit by losses over the Boro paddy lately, farmers in Dinajpur are now avoiding engaging labourers in a bid to cut cost and recoup the losses by cultivating early variety od Aman.

Vermicomposting, the natural process of converting organic wastes into fertilisers using earthworms, is bringing extra income to many farmers in Rangamati.

Thousands of fishermen are preparing to go to the Bay for netting fish as six-month-long ‘fish drying season’ starts on November 1.

Police in a drive early Monday arrested four members of an inter-district robbers’ gang from Notunbazar area in Baniachong upazila of Habiganj.

Shiblee Noman, an additional deputy commissioner (ADC) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, has been transferred to Armed Police Battalion in Chattogram.

Health condition of Jahanara Huq, mother of Law Minister Anisul Huq, is improving.

Dr Kamrul Ahsan, an additional secretary of Road Transport and Highway Division, has been appointed as the chairman of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA).

The High Court today issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain in four weeks why they should not be directed to enquire into the corruptions taking place in distributing books among the primary schools through National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) in last few years.

The High Court directs the mobile courts to release certified copies of their verdicts convicting the offenders in five working days from the dates of filing applications for the copies.

The documents in the sensational Nusrat Jahan Rafi murder case reaches the High Court as a death reference to examine the trial court verdict that sentenced 16 accused to death.

Six people have been arrested on charge of raping a 17-year-old girl in Ashulia of Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) files two cases against expelled Jubo League office secretary Kazi Anisur Rahman and his wife Sumi Rahman for amassing wealth illegally.

An official of a Feni court has started for High Court to hand over the death references of all the 16 convicts in Nusrat Jahan Rafi murder case.