Police have detained three suspected muggers who snatched nearly Tk 1 crore from officials of companies supplying manpower to the ongoing Payra Thermal Power Plant project in Kalapara upazila of Patuakhali.

Dubbed the queen of cabaret in Kolkata, Arati Das better known by her stage name “Miss Shefali”, passed away today at the age of 74, reports Indian media.

Body of a five-year-old girl, who had drowned in a ditch in Dhaka’s Kadamtali area five days ago, has been recovered.

A Dhaka court fixes March 2 to decide whether it will frame charges against 10 militants in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act following a raid at Kalyanpur militant den on July 26, 2016.

Teachers and students of Dhaka University’s linguistics department have went on a sit-in programme, demanding withdrawal of the honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) degree from former Pakistani autocrat ruler Ayub Khan, President Iskandar Mirza and the country’s then premier Khawaja Nazimuddin.

The headmaster of Gabrol Government Primary School in Jaldhaka upazila in Nilphamari, who took away the textbooks of a fifth grader for failing to pay the annual picnic fee, has been transferred.

Finland’s woman-led centre-left government plans to nearly double the length of paternity leave to give new fathers the same amount of paid time off work as new mothers.

A newborn baby in China has been diagnosed with the new coronavirus just 30 hours after birth, the youngest case recorded so far, state media said.

A man has been detained in connection with an attack on Mostafizur Rahman Sumon, a crime reporter at online news portal Agami News, on the day of the Dhaka City Corporation elections on Saturday.

China has said it will halve punitive tariffs on $75 billion in US imports from February 14, a month after Beijing and Washington signed a truce in their long-running trade war.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina seeks continued support of the European Union (EU) to ensure safe and dignified return of the forcibly displaced Rohingya people.

China has scrambled to find bed space for thousands of newly infected patients, as the toll from a deadly new virus jumped again.

Mohammad Badrul Ahsan, known as a popular columnist for The Daily Star and former publisher and editor of now defunct First News, passes away at the age of 60.

President Donald Trump is acquitted by the US Senate following a historic impeachment trial that shone a harsh light on America's divisions, without ever shaking the loyalty of his voter base.

Kirk Douglas, one of the last superstars of Hollywood's golden age of cinema renowned for his intense, muscular performances in "Spartacus" and "Paths of Glory," dies aged 103.

Three people have died and 179 have been injured when a plane skidded off the runway at an Istanbul airport, caught fire and split into three after landing in rough weather.

Muggers snatch over Tk 1 crore of three companies under Payra Thermal Power Plant in Kalapara upazila of Patuakhali.

A photo has recently gone viral in social media which shows a Bangladesh map being made with phensidyl bottles seized by Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Kushtia.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on February 5, 2020

The High Court directs the government to appoint 38 candidates who passed the 36th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) exams, but were not recruited due to unflattering intelligence reports about them.