High Court (HC) has termed a charge sheet as “defective” in a case filed over recovery of 49,000 yaba tablets in Narayanganj last year.

Tens of thousands of paramilitary personnel and police are deployed in India's border state of Assam, the eve of the publication of a citizenship register that could leave millions of people stateless, many of them Muslims.

Florida’s governor urges residents to stock up on at least a week’s worth of food, water and medicine and to prepare to lose power and cellphone services for days after Hurricane Dorian makes landfall early next week.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on August 30, 2019

Rights organisation Mother’s Call holds a discussion on the occasion of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances at the National Press Club in Dhaka.

BNP claims that around 1,209 people including some senior leaders of the party were made disappeared in the last 10 years’ rule of the Awami League.

Earlier this summer, China rejected a report submitted by Carrie Lam, the chief executive of Hong Kong, that assessed protesters’ five key demands and found that withdrawing a contentious extradition bill could help defuse the mounting political crisis in the territory, sources say.

Army Chief General Bipin Rawat will be in Srinagar on Friday for the first time following the withdrawal of Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir. General Rawat will review the security situation and preparedness of security forces in the Kashmir Valley in the wake of an increase in ceasefire violations.

A motorcycle rider is killed and two other persons are injured in a road accident on Kaliganj-Shyamnagar road in Satkhira.

Two police officials have been sued for allegedly committing cheque forgery in Dhaka.

Fresh curbs were imposed in Srinagar and other parts of the Kashmir Valley as a preventive measure ahead of the congregational prayers on Friday, officials say.

Amazon.com Inc plans to promote helpline phone numbers to customers who query its site about suicide, the company tells Reuters, after searches on its site suggested users search for nooses and other potentially harmful products.

Two activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) have been severely injured in an attack allegedly launched on them by their rival faction in Kalapara upazila of Patuakhali.

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel arrest five Bangladeshi nationals in Kishanganj district of Bihar while they were trying to return to their native country without any valid travel document.

Police have detain 12 top leaders of Chattogram city unit of Jamaat-e-Islami during a drive at a house in Sugandha Residential Area in the port city.

Amidst stepped-up security, the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam is set to be made public tomorrow morning, bringing to an end to a four-year-old Supreme Court-mandated and monitored process of weeding out “illegal immigrants” from the state.

Two persons are killed in separate reported gunfights with law enforcers in Chattogram and Chuadanga districts.

Railway authorities will take tough legal measures from September 1 against those travelling on roofs of trains.

Bipasha Hayat, a gifted artist who has explored different dimensions of arts and culture, speaks about her philosophy of life, her thoughts and her career in a recent interview with Rafi Hossain.

A police constable is beaten up by local people for allegedly sexually harassing a woman at Laxmipur in Rajshahi city.