Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community, begins with the incarnation (Bodhon) of the Goddess Durga at different temples across the country including capital Dhaka.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urges India-Bangladesh businessmen to work for mutual benefits and make the region more prosperous, saying the two neighbouring countries are enjoying the best ever relations as she addressed the India-Bangladesh Business Forum (IBBF).

Police claims to have arrested the husband of Liza Rahman who died after setting herself on fire in front of a police station in Rajshahi.

Some 130 Bangladeshi workers return home from Saudi Arabia in the face of crackdown on undocumented workers there.

Police recovers the bullet-hit body of a suspected criminal at Darbeshpur in Meherpur Sadar upazila.

At least 10,000 people in four out of five upazilas in Rajbari and one in Faridpur were affected by floods as the Padma river started flowing over danger level at Goalando river port point.

A youth was held on charge of vandalising a idol of Durga in Lalmonirhat while criminals ransacked some idols in Mymensingh, report our correspondents.

A man was trampled to death during an attack by a herd of wild elephant inside a forest in Bandarban’s Sualok area on Wednesday.

A man confessed to killing his wife and mother-in-law in Habiganj.

A Barguna court yesterday asked police to confiscate movable wealth of eight fugitive accused in a case for killing Rifat Sharif in front of his wife in broad daylight on June 26 this year.

Four thousand lemon trees, 1,000 papaya trees, 500 mango trees and 300 banana trees in one orchard -- this is what the creation of a youth in Tangail looks like.

Illegal hill cutting continues unabated for construction of a brick kiln near Tazing Dong, the country’s highest peak in remote Thanchi upazila, threatening environment.

A good number of primary schools in rural areas of the district are running with scanty teachers, and so, classes as well as academic activities are badly hampered.

In a rare example of altruism, workers of Amo Tea Garden in Habiganj’s Chunarughat upazila are running a school with their paltry income to save their children from discrimination that they commonly face in schools outside garden area.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also president of ruling Awami League, asks her party’s affiliated body Bangladesh Krishak League to hold its central council by November 30.

A top leader of Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islam Bangladesh and two others have been placed on a four-day remand each in connection with a case filed for attempting to reorganise the banned outfit.

BNP hopes that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina would return home from India with good news after ensuring the due share of water from Teesta and other common rivers.

Saima Wazed Hossain, chairperson of Bangladesh National Advisory Committee for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, has been listed among 100 “Innovative Women Leaders in Global Mental Health”.

Terming climate change and Rohingya crisis are major threats for Bangladesh, Law Minister Anisul Huq says both the challenges pose colossal multidimensional consequences and would potentially impact its whole security architecture.

A Barguna court asks police to seize movable wealth of eight fugitive accused in a case filed for killing Rifat Sharif in front of his wife in broad daylight on June 26.