Education Minister Dipu Moni says that legal steps would be taken against the educational institutions those are providing “false information” over inclusion in the monthly pay order (MPO) scheme.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir voices grave concern over the life of his party Chairperson Khaleda Zia and says her health condition is very critical and she might not recover.

The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) seizes a huge quantity of illegal liquor and casino equipment from the house of Aziz Mohammad Bhai, an industrialist and film producer, in Gulshan-2 of Dhaka.

The rail communication between Dhaka and Narayanganj remain suspended following a derailment of a Diesel Electric Multiple Unit (DEMU) train in Fatullah of Narayanganj.

Two people have been killed in a shooting at an off-campus Texas A&M University-Commerce party that also left at least 14 others injured, a sheriff’s official say.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on October 27, 2019

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) has issued show-cause notices on 19 councillors from general wards and two from reserved seats for being absent in over three board meetings.

It could be seen from a few yards away. The long, dried leaves of Golpata -- a plant native to the Sundarbans -- wayed in the late autumn breeze revealing cut outs of Irrawaddy and Ganges River Dolphins at the Liberation War Museum. These species, both considered globally endangered, are the last two remaining freshwater dolphin species in Asia that call the Sundarbans their home.

Around 173 Bangladeshi workers area deported from Saudi Arabia, as the authorities in the Kingdom are continuing to send back the workers.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed two separate cases against Mohammedan Sporting Club director (in-charge) M Lokman Hossain Bhuiyan and online casino businessman Salim Prodhan for amassing wealth illegally.

The High Court has ordered the authorities of a launch, MV Yard, to give Tk 3 lakh in 15 days for the treatment of Zaima Newaz Tisa, a six-year-old child who lost a finger of her right leg after the launch hit her at Fatullah launch terminal.

A Dhaka court has placed contractor SM Golam Kibria Shamim and expelled Jubo League leader Khaled Mahmud Bhuiyan on a seven-day remand each in two separate corruption cases.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returns home after wrapping up her four-day official visit to Azerbaijan for attending the 18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Baku.

Humayan Kabir, former deputy minister for Health and Family Welfare, dies of cardiac attack.

The High Court issues a rule asking the government to explain in four-week why it should not be directed to take necessary steps to set up breast feeding corners and baby care corners at all work places, shopping malls, airports, bus stops and railway stations across the country.

An alleged robber has been killed in a “gunfight” with police in Narayanganj’s Araihazar upazila.

After visiting Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar that hosted over 1.1 million forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals, New York State Senators are planning to ask their federal colleagues to put more efforts in ensuring sustainable repatriation of Rohingyas from Bangladesh.

President Donald Trump says that elusive Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed, dying "like a dog," in a daring, nighttime raid by US special forces deep in northwest Syria.

The admission test results of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) for the 2019-20 academic session has been published with 1,650 candidates primarily selected or kept in waiting list.

A tourist discovered she had breast cancer after an interactive heat-cam exhibit revealed a tumour during a family trip to a museum in Edinburgh.