Bangladesh and India are planning to introduce passenger train on Dhaka-Siliguri route from March next year as restoration of Chilahati-Haldibari rail link will be completed by December this year.

Four more prosecution witnesses, including a Dhaka metropolitan magistrate, today gave their depositions before a Dhaka tribunal in connection with the case filed over the rape of a DU student in Dhaka's Kurmitola earlier this year.

Authorities started unloading a nuclear reactor and a steam generator -- key components of the first unit of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant -- at jetty number 9 of Mongla Port in Bagerhat today.

The High Court today refused to grant anticipatory bail to four accused in a case filed on charges of killing Supreme Court lawyer Asif Imtiaz Khan Jisad.

Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Wednesday he was preparing to lift emergency measures imposed last week to stop protests in Bangkok and that disputes should be settled in parliament.

The government will clear dues of laid-off and retired workers of 25 state-run jute mills -- that were shut down -- by November this year, Textiles and Jute Minister Golam Dastagir Gazi said today.

Educational institutions may not reopen in November this year, Education Minister Dipu Moni hinted today.

One of the people who were accused in a case filed over the gang-rape of a woman in Noakhali’s Begumganj surrendered before a local court today.

President Abdul Hamid today convened the special session of parliament scheduled for November 8 marking Mujib Borsho, the birth centenary of Father of Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

President Donald Trump is hopping from one must-win stop on the electoral map to the next in the leadup to a final presidential debate that may be his last, best chance to alter the trajectory of the 2020 campaign.

At least 11 women were killed Wednesday in a stampede in an Afghan football stadium where thousands had gathered to apply for visas at a nearby Pakistan consulate, officials said.

The High Court directs law enforcement agencies to arrest Proshanta Kumar Halder, who fled the country after allegedly siphoning around Tk 10,200 crore from some non-banking financial institutions (NBFI), immediately after returning to the country.

The High Court today granted permanent bail to contractor Asif Hossain in a case filed over the corruption in purchasing furniture and household items for officials of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna.

Twenty-four people have died from Covid-19 in the country during last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Miscreants vandalised idols of Hindu gods and goddesses in Boalmari upazila of Faripdur last night.

The Anti-Corruption Commission has filed a case against eight engineers of Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) and three others for misappropriating about Tk 34.42 crore from a project.

A fire broke out at Balaka Bhaban in Chandni Chowk Market in the capital.

An Rohingya youth, allegedly a yaba trader, was killed in a “gunfight” with Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Naikhyangchhari upazila of Bandarban early today.

The maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to hoist local cautionary signal number 3 as a low has formed over the central part of the Bay of Bengal.

The High Court today rejected two bail petitions filed by suspended Awami League leaders of Dhaka’s Gendaria area Enamul Huq Enu and his brother Rupam Bhuiyan in two corruption cases involving Tk 36 crore.