The cabinet approves the draft of the ‘Child Marriage Prevention Act 2016’ fixing minimum age for girls’ marriage at 18 years and incorporating a provision for special marriage.

Rapid Action Battalion with the help of forest department rescues 1451 wild birds in Feni Model Thana area in Feni.

A Jhenidah court yesterday sent 14 people to jail for their alleged involvement in stalking two sisters and maiming their father for protesting the stalking in Kaliganj upazila of the district on October 16.

It is a time for celebration for fishermen of Noakhali and Laxmipur as they are passing busy time netting coral in the Meghna river.

Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque says that the Rohingya crisis will have to be solved by Myanmar as it is the country’s internal issue.

Brahmanbaria police has requested to increase vigilance at borders and ports so that no culprit involved in the attack on Nasirnagar Hindus can escape.

Acting editor of daily Amar Desh Mahmudur Rahman walks out on bail, after staying behind bars for over three-and-half years.He was implicated in over 70 cases including one filed over plots to abduct and kill the prime minister's son.

Road communication on Lalmonirhat-Burimari route was disrupted again yesterday as the steel deck of the Bailey

The top soil of cultivable land is being dug up illegally and sent to brick fields by a syndicate in the district, resulting in

A team from Ekatturer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul committee led by its adviser Justice Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik

Chemical-free farming of vegetables is gaining popularity and radish is bringing high profit to the growers in

The High Court issues a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain in two weeks as to why they should not be directed to take legal action against the persons responsible for looting, firing bullets on Santal people and torching their houses in the name of eviction in Gaibandha’s Gobindaganj on November 6.

A headmaster of a high school is beaten allegedly by a local union parishad member this morning following a conflict over forming the school managing committee in Boraigram upazila of Natore.

Pro-Sundarbans activists have threatened to hold rallies on spot if they are faced with bar during their “March to Dhaka” programme ahead of a grand rally.

Hundreds of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar have crossed the border to Bangladesh over the weekend, aid workers say.

Several hundred villagers near Barapukuria coal-fired power plant in Parbatipur upazila at a human chain yesterday

The High Court directs the local administration to take necessary steps to remove unauthorised vehicle stands, arbitrary parking and to free the footpaths from grabbing in Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) area in next 10 days.

The High Court questions the legality of power abuse by police under the relevant section of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) in calling for the witness of a case.

Bangladesh Red Crescent Society has distributed humanitarian assistance to affected minority Hindu community in Brahmanbaria’s Nasirnagar who suffered a spate of hate attack over this month.

Rail communications between Dhaka and the northern and southern districts remained suspended after a freight train