Nine convicts of the BDR carnage case have filed an appeal with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, challenging the High Court verdict that confirmed their death sentences handed by the trial court.

At least 4,969 people were killed and 5,058 were injured in 4,092 road accidents last year, according to a Nirapad Sarak Chai report.

Fair Technology Limited, the country’s lone distributor of renowned South Korean car manufacturer Hyundai Motor Company, is going to set up a Hyundai car manufacturing plant in Bangladesh.

A Rajbari court yesterday sentenced a man to death and three others to life term imprisonment for killing an eight-year-old girl after rape on May 25, 2008.

People of South Kayarpara village in Jashore’s Chaugachha upazila have set up an example of social work and continued to construct about two-kilometre road at own initiative.

Only three days into their marriage, on March 26 this year, Shanu Khatun’s husband Abdul Motaleb and his family members threw acid on her face over dowry.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has stayed a High Court verdict that issued four directives for the lower courts concerned regarding cancellation of the bail granted by the HC to the accused.

The government has approved the first revision of the Covid-19 Emergency Response and Pandemic Preparedness Project, raising its cost by Tk 5,659.07 crore mainly for the procurement, preservation and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines.

A Bangladeshi youth has been praised for his bravery in rescuing a six-year-old boy from the window ledge of a multi-storey flat in Hougang of Singapore.

Gas supply will remain shut at different areas in the city tomorrow from 9:00am to 5:00pm due to relocation of pipelines to facilitate the construction work of Dhaka Elevated Expressway (DEE) from Mohakhali Bus Terminal to Moghbazar.

The inflation rate declined by 0.23 percent on a point-to-point basis in December 2020 and came down to 5.29 percent in December last year from 5.52 percent in November.

A rod-cement trader was murdered in Bogura’s Sherpur upazila this evening.

Bangladesh has requested revision of India’s Line of Credit (LOC) agreement for enhancing use of local materials as the high officials of the two countries reviewed progress of the LOC projects on January 3.

The Armed Police Battalion (APBn) arrested four Rohingyas in possession of firearms in Unchiprang Putibania Rohingya Refugee camp at Whykong union under Teknafupazila in Cox’s Bazar yesterday.

Bangladesh wants social and legal protection of migrant workers in destination countries during emergency situations such as the Covid-19 pandemic that has exposed the sheer vulnerability of migrants abroad.

A fire broke out at a warehouse of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) in Lalmonirhat today.

The Department of Environment (DoE) today fined 10 illegal brick kiln owners Tk 16.5 lakh in Kurigram’s Ulipur and Nageshwari upazilas.

The unusual delay in implementation of Kushtia Medical College Establishment Project has irked Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today stayed for eight weeks the High Court orders which halted the education ministry's decision to remove the name of former president Ziaur Rahman from the titles of two high schools in Bogura.

A court in Joypurhat sentenced a woman to seven-years’ rigorous imprisonment for implicating a person in a false rape case.