Starting university is always a very exciting and important step in a student’s life. But Mahmud (not his real name) remembers his initial days on the campus for all the wrong reasons.

Police yesterday recovered the body of a driver from inside an SUV on the bank of the Padma in Kushtia’s Kumarkhali, and a woman admitted to killing him with her husband over an affair.

Three people, including a locomotive driver, were hurt as unidentified people hurled stones at trains on Joydevpur-Bangabandhu Bridge rail route in Tangail’s Mirzapur upazila on Friday.

Police arrested a man with 35,000 yaba pills in Chattogram’s Lohagara upazila yesterday morning.

Police yesterday recovered the body of a driver from inside an SUV on the bank of the Padma in Kushtia's Kumarkhali, and a woman admitted to killing him with her husband over an affair

Two date importers and a wholesale trader were fined Tk 90,000 in Chattogram today for selling dates, the popular iftar item, at exorbitant prices at wholesale market

A convict in the BDR mutiny case died in Kashimpur Central Jail, Gazipur early today.

The Inspector General of Police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun today said the recent arrests of 54 BNP leaders and activists from a city hotel was in accordance with the law.

Bangladesh police have no information on whether fugitive accused Rabiul Islam alias Arav Khan was detained by Dubai police, Inspector General of Police Abdullah Al Mamun said today. ."We don't have any such information whether he [Arav] was detained there," he told journalists after a pro

They seized 425 yaba pills, 8.68kg hemp, 200 grams heroin and four bottles of phensedyl from their possessions

A UN expert on human rights defenders and different international organisations have condemned the attack on the brother of UK-based Bangladeshi journalist Zulkarnain Saer Khan Sami and demanded a fair probe.

Shankhari Bazar is a neighbourhood in the old part of Dhaka, largely inhabited by the Hindus.

At least 10 were injured yesterday in a clash between two factions of Chhatra League over the formation of a committee in Sonaimuri upazila of Noakhali

Bangladesh is in talks with India to get fugitive accused Rabiul Islam’s Indian passport cancelled, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said yesterday. 

Police early yesterday arrested two teenagers in a case filed over the murder of two schoolboys in Patuakhali’s Baufal upazila.

The brother of UK-based Bangladeshi journalist Zulkarnain Saer Khan Sami, who worked with Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit), was assaulted by a group in the capital’s Mirpur area last week.

The customs department seized a large consignment of foreign liquor from the Chittagong port on Thursday as the goods were imported under a false declaration.

Unidentified miscreants shot dead a former Awami League leader in Khulna city yesterday.

Four members of a female mugging gang were arrested in Dhaka’s Mirpur area yesterday, said police.

During an anti-narcotics drive in the capital over the last 24 hours, police arrested 74 people for allegedly selling and consuming drugs.