A fire at Kapasia Bazar in Gazipur has gutted at least five businesses and killed more than 200 birds, around 10:00am yesterday.

Police have arrested two persons on charges of raping a schoolgirl in Mymensingh's Haluaghat upazila on Monday.

For more than four decades, hundreds of birds have found sanctuary in the homestead of 60-year-old Akhtar Hossain, a schoolteacher in Kalapara upazila of Patuakhali..Locals now fondly call it the “Bird House”..Located in Musuliabad village under Baliatali union, Akhtar’s home is surr

Police on Tuesday arrested two men in Mymensingh city for their involvement in forcibly shaving the hair and beard of 70-year-old Halim Uddin Akand just before Eid-ul-Azha this year.

The upgrade of Cox’s Bazar airfield to an international airport has been delayed by about a week as it awaits government approval.

Two children were allegedly tied up and tortured on charges of stealing hilsa in Patuakhali's Galachipa upazila on Monday.

After Ajib Bahar’s six-month-old son fell sick last year in Myanmar’s war-torn Rakhine state, the 38-year-old Rohingya mother said she had no medicine or food to give him. The boy died in her arms.

The five-day Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community, ends today with the immersion of the Goddess Durga in the capital and elsewhere in the country.

Heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely to occur across the country for 72 hours starting from 9:00am yesterday, warned the Bangladesh Meteorological Department.

The high-level conference on the Rohingya at the UN in New York has been able to draw global attention anew on the crisis that was losing focus amid other global crises, but the level of political commitment required for a lasting solution still remains a big question.

Dengue infections and fatalities continue to rise at an alarming rate, with the death toll reaching 200 and total reported cases climbing to 47,832 as of yesterday.

Eleven of the 12 city corporations across the country don’t have any entomologists to help the authorities check mosquito-borne diseases, exposing their weakness in combatting dengue that has now become a year-round concern.

A man was beaten to death on suspicion of being a robber in Narayanganj’s Araihazar upazila early yesterday.

A report prepared by a government medical board in Khagrachhari says that doctors found “no evidence of rape” in tests on a 12-year-old schoolgirl, whose alleged assault triggered fierce protests in the hilly district.

Traffic is returning to normal in Khagrachhari after the road blockade enforced under the banner of Jumma Chhatra Janata was suspended late Tuesday, bringing relief to residents.

Years go by, vehicles come and go, and assurances are made one after another. Yet the Golartek playground in Mirpur-1 has not been freed from occupation.

Relatives swarm arrival, departure zones despite entry restrictions, disrupting passenger movement

A couple was killed in a lightning strike in Saheber Alga village under Kurigram’s Ulipur upazila on Tuesday night.

Flashfloods are likely to hit seven districts as major rivers continue swelling due to heavy to very heavy rainfall in Dhaka, Chattogram and Rajshahi divisions of Bangladesh, as well as in upstream regions of India’s Tripura and Assam states.

Coffee cultivation in Moulvibazar is showing renewed promise after making a gradual comeback through government initiatives and growing interest among farmers.