The number of recorded cases in Dhaka district has nearly halved in the last one year, a "success" which police attributed to a new initiative known as tele-policing.

There is little chance for inhabitants of former 111 Indian enclaves to get enrolled as voters this year as the upazilas, union parishads and wards are yet to be demarcated incorporating the new areas.

Leaders of a faction of the Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) demanded formation of ninth wage board and announcement of the New Year bonus for journalists and employees of the newspaper industry of the country.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday said fine for illegal parking and over speeding will be raised.

Fifty-four South Asians, including 35 Bangladeshis, seeking asylum in the US ended their six-day hunger strike at a detention centre in El Paso, Texas on October 20 following two days' negotiations between Dhaka and Washington, said diplomatic sources.

Thirty-three out of 53 Bangladesh missions failed to achieve respective export targets set for the first quarter (July-September) of the current fiscal year (2015-16), according to the latest statistics provided by the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB).

Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury, a former Supreme Court judge, comes under attack in London, says his daughter Nadia Choudhury in her Facebook account.

Locals of Manikdi in Matikata blocked Kalshi New Road for about two hours up to 8:00pm yesterday after a student was killed in a road accident, said police.

Senior BNP leader Nazrul Islam Khan yesterday said though the government was conspiring to keep their top leaders away from future polls by “punishing them in false cases”, “big leaders were not necessary for winning any polls”.

Customs intelligence officials seized around 0.5kg of gold, 42 mobile phone sets and 20 cartons of foreign cigarettes

The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined five washing factories Tk 27 lakh in the capital's Rupnagar for

Prof Beggzadi Mahmuda Nasir, founder principal of Central Women's College and founder vice chancellor of Central Women's University, is undergoing

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said the government has taken an initiative to collect

Two days have passed since a doctor of Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) was stabbed in his house at Agrabad in the port city on Monday but law enforcement agencies are yet to trace any of the assailants and the motive of the attack.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Civil Aviation and Tourism Ministry yesterday recommended that the government do not renew the job contract of Biman Bangladesh Airlines Managing Director Kyle Haywood because of his “poor performance”.

The body of a man was found in a toilet of a hotel room while two youths were killed in separate incidents in the

Three ship-breaking workers, who were injured in a gas-tank explosion at RA Ship-breaking Yard in Chittagong's

Gonotantrik Bam Morcha yesterday announced holding a programme on November 5 to express solidarity with others demanding cancellation of the coal-based Rampal power plant project to preserve the Sundarbans, situated some 14 kilometres away.

The Gono Bishwabidyalay authorities yesterday suspended BBA first year student Bikrom Moni Das in an allegation of stabbing a girl to death at her school gate at Boardghar in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur on October 13.

The condition of BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka, who is being treated in the US for cancer in the rib, has been deteriorating since the last couple of months.