The main political parties of the country, who claim to be democratic, did not observe any programmes on International Day of

The Dhaka metropolitan magistrate's court rejected all five bail petitions of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's adviser Shawkat Mahmud in as

The High Court yesterday fixed tomorrow for delivering verdict on a petition filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia challenging the legality

Principal Ibrahim Khan Memorial Lecture 2015 was held at Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban of Dhaka University yesterday.

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has decided not to organise a farewell ceremony for Appellate Division's Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik, who will retire on October 1, for a host of reasons.

The strength of democracy is equivalent to the strength of political participation of citizens and this must be increased for world peace, social cohesion, and development, says the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), marking International Day of Democracy today.

The draft master plan of the capital city has to have strategies to recover and conserve the proposed water retention ponds, water bodies, lakes, canals, and rivers, said a leading urban planner on the concluding day of a two-day national seminar yesterday.

Unidentified people hacked a ward-level Awami League leader to death in Pagla of Mymensingh's Gafargaon upazila last night.

The trial run of passenger transport for regional connectivity between Bangladesh, India, Bhutan and Nepal is scheduled to be held from November 14 to December 1 this year.

The Supreme Court yesterday stayed for three months a High Court order that granted bail of BNP leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain in a money laundering case.

Saudi Ambassador to Bangladesh Abdullah HM Al-Mutairi met BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan office last night, party sources said.

The High Court on Thursday scraped a lower court verdict which in 2008 sentenced former BNP minister Nazmul Huda to 12 years'

Demanding removal of the value added tax (VAT) on private universities, opposition leaders yesterday contradicted the finance

The Supreme Court on Thursday scrapped a High Court verdict that acquitted former BNP lawmaker M Rashiduzzaman Millat in a case

Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday regretted his comment on the agitating teachers of public universities.

BNP yesterday alleged that the government has been trying to hide news of the ongoing flood situation in the country as it has failed to stand beside the victims.

The drive against old ad unfit vehicles failed to achieve any success due to non-cooperation from some unscrupulous transport owners, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader told the parliament yesterday.

Criminals felled at least 500 guava and 40 mango trees at an orchard at Chaugasi village in Sadar upazila of the district early yesterday.

Blaming Khaleda Zia and Jamaat for Bangladesh's losing the GSP facilities in the US market, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday told parliament that the BNP chief and the Islamist party were spreading propaganda abroad through lobbyists.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will appear before a Dhaka court today in both Zia charitable trust and Zia orphanage trust graft cases.