Gaibandha-1 MP Manzurul Islam Liton yesterday surrendered two licensed firearms to police, a day after he allegedly shot a 10-year-old boy.

Armed criminals shot to death a Japanese national in Rangpur yesterday, just five days after an Italian aid worker was murdered in the capital's Diplomatic zone. Victim Hoshi Kunio, 66, was gunned down around 10:00am when he was going by a rickshaw to his farmland at Alutari under the district's Kaunia upazila, police said, quoting witnesses.

As part of yearly event, a 100-member youth delegation from Bangladesh will pay an eight-day visit to India beginning

Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha yesterday in Chittagong University said the judiciary of the country is fully

Even though supply of vegetables to the kitchen markets in Chittagong city has returned to almost normal, the price

A four-day long international conference on "Drug Discovery and Development Research in Developing Countries-

Abolition of financial benefits known as "selection grade" and "timescale" in the newly announced eighth payscale

Admission seekers for the bachelor programme at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) under Dhaka University

High Court Circuit Bench Implementation Council, Chittagong yesterday demanded that the government establish a circuit bench of High Court in the divisional city.

Bangladesh Coast Guard members yesterday arrested 168 fishermen in the Bay of Bengal near Sangu gas field area and seized 3,080kgs of hilsa, worth Tk 24.64 lakh, which they caught defying the ongoing temporary ban on hilsa fishing.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members recovered 60 gold bars, weighing around seven kilograms, in the district's Kalaroa upazila yesterday.

Climate change might make the world's stock markets and banks unstable and lead to a financial crash, said Mark Carney, the head of the G20 countries' Financial Stability Board.

The Mahanagar Sarbojonin Puja Committee yesterday urged the government to shift this year's public holiday on Durga Puja from October

Three renowned child litterateurs were awarded the Chandrabati Academy Shishu Sahitya Prize for their outstanding contribution to children's literature yesterday.

Undergoing treatment at a psychiatric hospital, Riad astonished his family when the 14-year-old said he would take medicine only if he was allowed to smoke marijuana or drink alcohol afterwards. He was finally given sedatives and put to sleep.

A cross-section of society joined a rally of demonstrators in the capital's Shahbagh yesterday demanding fresh tests for admission to medical and dental colleges citing question paper leak, and a fair probe into the death of a UGC official in Rab custody on Thursday.

Border Guard Bangladesh seized 15,000 pieces of cattle fattening tablets named Provit in Fakirpara area at Hili border of Hakimpur upazila in Dinajpur yesterday.

The Detective Branch of police on Thursday night arrested two officials of a fake non-government organisation (NGO) in Pirojpur town

Community health care providers in Chittagong division yesterday demanded nationalisation of their job.

Rapid Action Battalion rescued a woman from an Ashulia house in Savar outside the capital yesterday three days after she had been kidnapped from Narsingdi.