Senior officials deliberately withheld intelligence about possible attacks on Sri Lanka, where a rash of suicide bombings on Easter Sunday killed at least 359 people, the leader of Sri Lankan parliament says.

Protesting students of Dhaka University-affiliated colleges have paid no heed to university’s assurance and continued their blockade on Nilkhet.

Eight people have been given life term imprisonment in a case filed for killing three policemen in Bera upazila of Pabna on July 20, 2010.

Two people from Netrakona are awarded death penalty for committing crimes during the Liberation War in 1971.

Bangladesh’s leading mobile service operator Grameenphone has earned record Tk 3,490 crore revenue in the first quarter of 2019.

Survivors of Rana Plaza disaster, who were observing a hunger strike for the third consecutive day today with an 11-point demand, break their strike following assurance of workers' leaders.

Saudi Arabia beheads 37 Saudi citizens, most of them minority Shiites, in a mass execution across the country for alleged terrorism-related crimes.

Bangladesh is observing the sixth anniversary of Rana Plaza tragedy, the industrial disaster that killed at least 1,100 people back in 2013. Pro-labour groups, local administration, law enforcers and people from all walks of life went up to Savar and paid homage to the victims.

Two suspected drug traders are killed in separate “gunfights” with law enforcers in Dhaka and Cox's Bazar.

Sri Lankan police says they had detained 18 more people for questioning over the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels, claimed by the Islamic State group, as the death toll climbed again to 359.

The 3rd two-day-long Strategic Dialogue between Bangladesh and the UK will begin tomorrow.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines will resume Dhaka-Delhi direct flights on May 13, with three flights a week initially.

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A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Dhaka jails three people for differed terms and fined Tk five lakh each for buying, reserving and marketing contaminated medicine for cancer.

Police claims to have arrested the prime accused in Bogura BNP leader Mahbub Alam Shahin murder case from Paltan area of Dhaka.

The latest wage board that recommended the new salary structure for the garment workers did not adjust the five per cent annual automatic increment with the basic of the new structure, the findings of the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) say.

More than 50 people are feared dead after a landslide in northern Myanmar engulfed jade miners while they were sleeping, local police say, the latest deadly accident in a notoriously dangerous industry.

The High Court issues a rule asking the government to explain why it should not be directed to release Md Arman, a technician at a Benarasi Palli in Dhaka’s Mirpur area, who has allegedly been suffering in jail for more than three years in a drug case in place of the real accused.

A mentally challenged teenage girl has reportedly is raped at Singair upazila in Manikganj.

A group of citizens has demonstrated in Dhaka demanding release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.