Chief Adviser’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam yesterday said the next general election is likely to be held between December and June.

A total of 200 people were arrested across the country during joint force operations over seven days between May 8 and May 14, the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement yesterday.

Those who want to delay the next parliamentary polls must explain the rationale behind their decision, said BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan yesterday.

The victim is Samia Akhter, 6, daughter of Sattar of Karnapur village in the upazila

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Many of the 26 journalists accused in an attempted murder case filed by a pro-BNP lawyer in Chattogram have alleged that the charges were based on distorted facts.

Several thousand women marched in the capital yesterday, demanding that the government act against the threats women and minority communities face and a misinformation campaign against the Women’s Affairs Reform Commission.

Bangladesh is moving in the right direction despite the challenges created by the disruptive rule of the Awami League-led regime, which was ousted last year in a popular uprising, Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus told The Economist.

Students and teachers of Jagannath University called off their protest last night after receiving assurances from the government that their demands would be met.

A Chattogram court yesterday sent a Bashundhara Group official to jail in a case over an alleged attempt to evade over Tk 50 crore of port charges by submitting a forged letter from the shipping ministry.

Protesting students at Dhaka University yesterday issued a 48-hour ultimatum for the arrest of the “real perpetrators” behind the murder of fellow student and Chhatra Dal leader Shahriar Alam Shammo, as demonstrations continued for a third straight day.

A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight landed safely in Dhaka yesterday despite losing a wheel from its left side main landing gear shortly after take-off from Cox’s Bazar.

Bangladesh's private airline industry is struggling to stay afloat, hobbled by soaring fuel prices, punitive surcharges, and what operators describe as unfavourable policies. Of the 10 private carriers that have entered the market over the past three decades, only two -- US-Bangla Airlines and Air Astra -- remain in operation.

To resist any attempted push-in of people from India, Border Guard Bangladesh intensified patrols and heightened vigilance in the bordering villages of Brahmanbaria’s Bijoynagar upazila.

Two persons were killed in lightning strikes in Lalmonirhat and Kurigram yesterday morning.

At least five people, including a Forest Department officer, were injured in an attack allegedly carried out by locals while recovering grabbed forest lands in Savar today

The victim is Tara Miah, 32, of Batia village in Tarakanda, police said

Biman Bangladesh Airlines today formed a four-member probe body to investigate the incident of losing a wheel of its Dhaka-bound flight from Cox's Bazar

A student of Jagannath University (JnU), who was taken to the Detective Branch (DB) office for questioning after he allegedly threw a water bottle at Information Adviser Mahfuj Alam, was released hours later.."We handed him over to his family around 6:30pm," said Talebur Rahman, deputy com

Bangladesh Khelafat Majlish today expressed deep concern over what it called government efforts to establish "humanitarian corridor" in Rakhine, and to give a lease of Chattogram port to foreigners