Police have arrested four youths for their involvement in selling “fake question papers” of the ongoing Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations and scamming people with promise of altering exam results.

India's Supreme Court yesterday held billionaire industrialist and Reliance Communication's Chairman Anil Ambani guilty of contempt of court for wilfully violating its order by not paying Rs 550-crore dues to telecom equipment manufacturer Ericsson India.

Barely a day after his birth, he found himself in the midst of rumbling bulldozers destroying the little world around him. The next day, the baby, who was yet to be named, and his mother Tanjila Begum, 24, were homeless.

At least eight people were injured as a bus and a pick-up van caught fire from a leaking gas pipeline on Mirpur road in the capital's Dhanmondi area yesterday afternoon.

Six former officials of Bangladesh Krishi Bank Limited were sent to jail yesterday in connection with a graft case.

The Election Commission yesterday announced the fourth phase of Upazila Parishad polls schedule, setting March 31 as voting day.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said it is unfortunate that Myanmar has failed to create a congenial atmosphere to take back Rohingyas, despite signing an agreement with Bangladesh on repatriation.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain yesterday said journalists' access to the courtrooms has to be ensured to maintain transparency of the judiciary.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday stressed the importance of protecting and practicing own languages and cultures for making a healthy environment for the future generation.

The National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre (NTMC) will soon be able to block and filter anti-government propaganda and other content to be used for criminal activities on the internet.

Workers of a garment factory block Dhaka-Aricha highway in Savar protesting the death of one of their fellows in a road accident.

A man along with a friend allegedly rapes his sister-in-law after sedating her family members in Sakhipur upazila of Tangail.

Six Indian army men are feared dead in an avalanche that hit a remote place in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur district bordering China, officials say.

Indian prisoners stone to death a Pakistani inmate in a jail amid mounting tensions over a suicide bombing that Delhi has blamed on its arch-rival neighbour, an official says.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hands over prestigious ‘Ekushey Padak-2019’ to 21 eminent persons for their outstanding contributions to their respective fields.

Australia officially declares a Great Barrier Reef rodent extinct, making it the first mammal believed to have been killed off by human-induced climate change.

The rapid scale-up of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine could virtually eliminate cervical cancer in a handful of rich countries within three decades, and in most other nations by century's end, researchers says..

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls on India and Pakistan to take “immediate steps” to de-escalate tensions between the two nations following the Pulwama terror attack, reiterating that his good offices are available if both sides ask.

Six people including a Bangladeshi man die in a fire in Malaysia. Malaysia’s Perak Fire and Rescue Department acting director Sayani Saidon said they received a distress call at about 5:49am and rushed to the location at Times Square along Jalan Raja Dr Nazrin Shah.

Alphabet Inc’s Google says it will buy data migration company Alooma, as part of efforts to catch up with bigger cloud service rivals Amazon.com Inc and Microsoft Corp.