A madrasa teacher has been arrested allegedly for attempting to sexually abuse a 10-year-old boy in Tarail upazila of Kishoreganj.

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller visits Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s home district Gopalganj and pays tributes to the Father of the Nation.

Two coal traders who have been abducted from Sunamganj three days ago are rescued from Morrelganj upazila of Bagerhat.

The High Court has observed that there is no bar in the law of the land to the marriage between a bridegroom and a bride of higher caste and lower caste.

Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of Muslims, will be celebrated across the country on August 12 as the new moon of the Arabic month of Zilhaj is sighted in Bangladesh sky.

Nagorik Oikya, one of the partners of Jatiya Oikyafront, blames the government for its negligence in preventing dengue fever, rape incidents and reducing sufferings of flood affected people.

Calling upon the people to remain calm, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said the process to bring effective medicine to eliminate Aedes mosquito is underway.

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono has urged the Myanmar government to take "more strenuous efforts" to take Rohingyas back from Bangladesh to their place of origin in Rakhine State.

A Ganges River Dolphin (Platanista gangetica; locally known as shushuk) dies due to use of illegal current net for fishing in Pashru river in Rampal upazila of Bagerhat.

Chattogram Port, the country’s premium sea port, has advanced six steps in terms of annual throughput of containers in this year’s Lloyd’s List, world’s oldest journal on port and shipping.

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Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Atiqul Islam says that the sample of insecticide for effective control of Aedes mosquito in Dhaka will be brought from abroad within a day or two.

The rise in the cases of dengue fever in West Bengal in the border regions is a result of the widespread outbreak of the disease in Bangladesh, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee says.

An Indonesian fishing boat has sunk in waters off South Kalimantan province on Borneo island, with 31 people still missing, media reports cite the country’s search and rescue agency as saying.

India tells the United States that any discussion on Kashmir, if at all warranted, will only be with Pakistan.

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra says the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Unnao rape case, in which a Bharatiya Janata Party lawmaker is the main accused, is a “stamp on the prevailing jungle raj” in the saffron party-ruled Uttar Pradesh and the state government’s “failure”.

The Assam government releases district-wise break down of figures and claims large-scale fudging of “legacy documents” by people in the districts bordering Bangladesh to get their names included in the document.

An alleged drug dealer is killed in a reported gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Pubail area of Gazipur.

Around 50 warehouses are gutted in a fire that broke out at a slum in Narayanganj Sadar upazila.

After years of success in farming turkey in the Philippines, an expatriate Bangladeshi sets up a farm at his village home in Manikganj with an aim to export the poultry to markets in France.