A housewife was beaten to death allegedly for dowry by her husband at Kanichgari area in Bogra town early yesterday.

A nine-month-old baby boy was allegedly poisoned to death by his grandmother as part of a family dispute at Ronorampur village in Sharifpur union of Jamalpur Sadar upazila of the district on Tuesday evening.

BNP will finalise the names of its chairman aspirants of the second phase of the Union Parishad polls by Saturday, party insiders said.

The Right to Information Act can empower people by ensuring their access to important information about services of the government bodies and non-governmental organisations, said speakers at a press conference yesterday.

In a revision trial, a special court today commuted the death sentence of two operatives of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to life term imprisonment for killing a teacher of Rajshahi University in 2004.

A temple belonging to the Hindu religious community is vandalised in Atoari upazila of Panchagarh, locals found out.

The body of a five-year-old girl was recovered from a lake at Uttarkhan in the capital yesterday, a day after she had gone missing.

Coastguard members arrested 54 alleged forest robbers from Kokilmoni area near the Sundarbans in Sharankhola upazila of Bagerhat

Three people, including two siblings, were stabbed in Sadar and Alamdanga upazilas on Monday night. In Sadar upazila, BCL activist Sajal,

A court here on Monday sent 15 Jamaat-Shibir men to jail, rejecting their bail prayers in a case for attacking Hindus in Chirirbandar

A man was killed and 25 others were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers yesterday over a cricket match at Baliachora

Several hundred fishermen formed a human chain at Sheikh Russel Square in Pathorghata upazila town at around 11:00am yesterday,

Police detain 35 local leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student body Islami Chhatra Shibir and recovered petrol bombs from them in Lalmohon upazila of Bhola.

A man of alleged Bangladeshi origin has been held from Uttar Pradesh over the shooting outside Kolkata's Loreto College.

A Panchagarh court places three suspects on different terms of remand in two cases filed in connection with the murder of a priest in Debiganj upazila.

An accused in a murder case is killed and two policemen are injured in a “gunfight” between criminals and law enforcers in Moheshpur upazila of Jhenidah.

Police rescued two abducted people from Latiban area under Panchhari upazila of the district yesterday, eight days after their abduction.

An expatriate and a teenage boy were found murdered in Begumganj upazila of Noakhali and Daudkandi upazila of Comilla yesterday

Police recovered the body of a newborn baby in Chandanaish upazila of Chittagong yesterday.

A Habiganj court places two accused on remand each over the murder of four children in Habiganj’s Bahubol upazila.