Apex court extends the stay on bail for Supreme Court lawyer Shakila Farjana, accused of funding militancy, until March 20.

The government yesterday signed a Tk 231.37 crore deal with a consortium of five companies for the consultancy services of the 72-km Akhaura-Laksam double rail line project.

A mobile court of the Chittagong district administration yesterday fined two eateries Tk 60,000 in Chittagong city on different charges including not maintaining hygiene.

A woman allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the rooftop of a 5-storey building in the capital's Hazipara early yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to award individuals and organisations who played a pivotal part in implementing the Mandatory Jute Packaging Act 2010, according to Jute and Textiles Minister Md Emaz Uddin Pramanik.

Muggers snatched away Tk 80,000 from a trader after shooting him in the right leg in the capital's Bangshal yesterday.

Eleven people, including two of a family, were killed and 23 others injured in road accidents in six districts yesterday and on Saturday.

Today is the 32nd death anniversary of Md Moshtaque, a journalist, former director of news of Bangladesh Betar, Bangladesh Television and Asian Television Services.

The High Court asks the chief metropolitan magistrate of Dhaka to inform it in three days whether the summons on BNP leader Tarique Rahman in a graft case reached his London address.

Bangladesh Bank governor Dr Atiur Rahman yesterday said banks were asked to spend 30 percent of their Corporate Social Responsibility

Eight people were killed, including a college student, and 19 others injured in road accidents in six districts

The dreams of the Liberation War for building a country free from disparities and social and economic deprivations

Two construction workers dies and two others are injured from electrocution in the city’s Badda area.

A fire that broke out at Brac Centre in Mohakhali of Dhaka is doused half an hour after it originated.

Father of five members of a family, who were burnt in a gas stove fire at their Uttara house, succumbs to his injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

Police arrested an accused in a case, filed for killing Kazi Habib, in Sultanpur of Sadar upazila in Moulvibazar early

Two minor boys drown in a pond in Sandwip upazila of Chittagong. Villagers find the bodies floating on a pond and rescued the duo, locals say.

At least a dozen people are detained from a demonstration in Dhaka’s Shahbagh demanding a raise in the age limit for entering government service.

Two children, aged one and 14 years old, succumb to injuries hours after a gas fire burns five of a family in Uttara of the capital. While their nine-year-old brother has been released after primary treatments, the parents are stated to be in critical condition.

A Dhaka court yesterday gave Criminal Investigation Department (CID), for the tenth time, two more months to complete the investigation in a case filed over killing of Maj Gen Abul Manzur in 1981.