Favourable weather conditions and timely support from the agriculture department contributed to better harvest of betel nuts in Laxmipur this year.

Authorities of recently erected Juri Upazila Health Complex, built on wetland, are concealing huge cracks on the walls of the building with plaster and paint.

A woman was killed allegedly by her husband over dowry in Dharmotala area of Jashore town on Monday.

Two people, including the house owner, died and another fell sick after inhaling toxic gas trapped inside a septic tank in in Joypurhat’s Panchbibi upazila on Monday.

Students of Dorikhoshila Government Primary School in Tangail’s Kalihati upazila formed a human chain yesterday, protesting armed assault on the school’s headteacher.

A court here yesterday sent a man to jail after rejecting his bail prayer in a case for stalking a schoolgirl and beating her.

Representatives of 36 families of three villages under Rajapur upazila in Jhalakathi at a press conference yesterday brought allegations of extortion and land grabbing against Ahsan Habib Rubel, upazila unit president of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL).

Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA), Diagnostic and Clinic Owners Association and Chemists and Druggists Association on Monday called off strike after a meeting with the local lawmaker and police administration in the town.

Classes of 800 students at Bhubonjoy Government High School in Jurachari upazila of Rangamati are badly hampered as only four teachers including the acting headmaster are running the institution with sanctioned posts of 24.

A 14-year-old boy, prime accused in schoolgirl Sadia Samad Lisa murder case, surrendered to a court in Panchagarh yesterday.

Educational activities of nearly 450 students of a partially damaged high school, in Jhalakathi’s Rajapur upazila, might be affected unless it is moved to a safer location soon.

At least four children drown and seven other people go missing as a boat capsized in Kaliakuta haor in Derai upazila of Sunamganj.

A Manikganj court sentences four people to death for killing a fourth-grader after raping her in Singair upazila of Manikganj in 2008.

Bangladesh, China and Myanmar have agreed to form a "tripartite joint working mechanism" to evaluate the situation on the ground for Rohingya repatriation.

Local people in Bogura's Shahjanpur upazila discover huge amounts of "discarded'' notes of Bangladesh Bank in a waterbody. They first noticed it after the notes started to wash up on the banks of the waterbody in Chandai village on Sunday.

A dengue patient dies at Khulna Medical College Hospital.

Police arrested a woman at her home in Thakurgaon Sadar upazila after she informed them of killing her husband early yesterday

Two people were sentenced to death while six others got life term imprisonment for murders in three districts yesterday.

A 19-year-old girl, who went missing around nine years ago, got reunited with her family on Saturday.

The deputy commissioner (DC) of Nilphamari yesterday formed a five-member inquiry committee, following Sunday’s public agitation