The High Court wants to hear statements from Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) and Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA) about 52 food products that were found substandard.

The agitation of state-run jute mill workers rolls on to day four without any lesser of resolution to reap demands of pay and arrears. Several thousands of workers of Latif Bawani Jute Mill and Karim Jute Mill agitating at Demra, Dhaka.

Muslims observing Ramadan near the top of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, fast slightly longer than those who break the fast on the ground floor, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says.

Singapore’s parliament on May 8 passed laws to combat “fake news” that will allow authorities to order the removal of online content despite fierce criticism from tech giants and rights groups.

Popular app-based ride sharing company OBHAI collaborates with Dhaka Metropolitan Police and installs 23 water purifiers and dispensers at the DMP Headquarters.

There will be no relief from the sweltering heat as the temperature may rise further in the next two days, the Met Office said today.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has formed a probe committee over the crash landing of its Dash-8 aircraft in Myanmar’s Yangon yesterday.

The mortal remains of Bangladesh Police’s top woman officer Rowshan Ara Begum, killed in a road crash in Congo last Sunday, are brought back home.

Ratcheting up pressure just hours ahead of talks in Washington, China vowed Thursday to retaliate if President Donald Trump goes ahead with more tariff hikes in a dispute over trade and technology.

US President Donald Trump says that China “broke the deal” in trade talks with Washington and would face stiff tariffs if no agreement is reached.

Two persons are killed in a reported gunfight between Rapid Action Battalion and a drug dealer group in Cox’s Bazar.

President Donald Trump orders new sanctions on Iran, this time targeting the Islamic Republic's export revenues from its industrial metals sector, and vows to keep squeezing Tehran unless it "fundamentally alters" its policies.

China is analysing whether any country is facing debt trap involving its loan for projects under mega infrastructure project -- Belt and Road Initiative, says Chinese Ambassador in Bangladesh, Zhang Zuo.

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An assistant sub-inspector of Shahbagh Police Station is suspended for allegedly losing his pistol and ammunition.

Detectives claim to have arrested five members of an organised gang who used to prepare forged all BRTA documents of vehicles and supply those to their clients.

A teacher of Chittagong University has filed a general diary stating that he received death threat over phone by a top criminal.

All 33 passengers and crew members are injured more or less as an aircraft of Biman Bangladesh Airlines skidded off the runway of Yangon International Airport in Myanmar.

The autopsy, conducted on nurse Shahinoor Akter Tania’s body, has found evidence of gang-rape and murder. Tania, who worked at Ibne Sina Hospital’s Kalyanpur branch in Dhaka, died on her way home by a bus in Kishoreganj’s Katiadi upazila on Monday night.

An intercity train with nearly 500 passengers narrowly escapes a possible train accident following the awareness of a schoolboy in Kamalganj upazila of Moulvibazar.