The government may temporarily block social media platforms, including Facebook and YouTube in Bangladesh if the companies fail to cooperate in efforts to fight cybercrime and the spread of false information.

Around 500 local BNP leaders and activists from Dhaka, Chattogram, and Narayanganj secured six weeks' anticipatory bail from the High Court today in 33 cases filed over the violence in BNP's grand rally in Dhaka on October 28 last year

An official of the forest department died after he was run over by a dumper truck used to steal earth from the hills of a forest reserve in Cox's Bazar early today

BNP's Joint Secretary General Habibun Nabi Khan Sohel was sent to jail today after he surrendered before two separate courts in Dhaka in three cases, in which he was sentenced to a total of five years and six months’ jail in absentia

A flat in Dhaka's Mirpur DOHS area was robbed on March 17, with the thieves taking away cash and different valuables worth around Tk 10.3 lakh, the residents of the apartment said

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday arrested the prime accused in a case filed over the gang-rape of a young girl in Gazipur's Sreepur upazila

The Biden administration identified bribery, corruption, customs, anti-competitive procurement system and violation of intellectual property rights as major trade and investment barriers in Bangladesh.

The 23-member crew of the hijacked Bangladeshi ship MV Abdullah are suffering from an acute water crisis as the pirates restricted its use due to depleting stock.

A Bangladeshi national was shot dead by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) near the Burirhat border in Lalmonirhat’s Kaliganj upazila early yesterday.

Tangail Awami League leader Golam Kibria, also known as Boro Moni, has once again been sued for rape and is currently on the run.

An eight feet deep waterbody on 66-decimal land owned by Bangladesh Railway in Khulna city has allegedly been filled up by followers of a city corporation councillor. Now plans are afoot to build a park and other structures there.

A union parishad (UP) member was arrested over gang rape of a school girl in Shariatpur yesterday.

Detectives arrested three people with a firearm and ammunition, who were travelling in a government car, in Jashore yesterday.

Posing as an army officer and an executive magistrate, a duo used to scam people in Kishoreganj.

Police recovered the body of a six-year-old boy from a tobacco field in Aditmari upazila of Lalmonirhat yesterday, a day after he went missing.

Buet students yesterday boycotted their classes and exams and demonstrated against early Thursday’s gathering of Chhatra League activists on the campus where political activities are not allowed.

A 30-year-old man was stabbed to death last night allegedly by his two friends for asking to return a loan of Tk 10,000 in Brahmanbaria’s Sarail

Police recovered the body of a six-year-old boy from a tobacco field in Aditmari upazila of Lalmonirhat today, a day after he went missing

A union parishad member was arrested over the gang rape of a female school student in Shariatpur's Naria upazila today

A court today today sent a man to jail for allegedly killing a woman who he owed Tk 2,000 in Mymensingh's Tarakanda upazila