Over 3,200 people are detained countrywide on the third day of the anti-militancy crackdown. Among them only 34 were suspected militants.

A girl was saved from child marriage following timely intervention of the local administration at Telkhupi village in Gabtoli upazila of the

A woman is arrested from Dhaka's Badda over the murder of a Christian trader Sunil Gomez in Natore. People of Christian community in Baraigram upazila also stag demonstration protesting the killing of the grocer.

Four people are killed in a devastating storm that ravaged Koyra and Bhatiaghata upazilas of Khulna.

Two women were killed and over 100 houses damaged as storms lashed three upazilas of Patuakhali and Pirojpur districts yesterday

A Hindu priest is rescued unhurt in Rangpur within 24 hours after he went missing.

Two women are killed when their tin-shed houses collapsed on them during a storm that lashed different upazilas of Patuakhali. The storm has uprooted many electric poles, plunging Dhumki, Golachipa, Dasmina and Baufal upazilas into darkness.

Condemned war crimes convict Jamaat leader Mir Quasem Ali will file a petition with the Supreme Court seeking a review of its verdict upholding his death penalty for crimes against humanity during the Liberation War, says Quasem’s counsel Matiur Rahman Akanda.

There are many faces of magic in literature. Prospero's art, Keats's 'charm'd magic casements,' the satirical sylphs in Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock,' Yeats's occultism are some of the faces of magic that we meet in the syllabuses of the English departments. We are comfortable in dealing with magic as a component of fantasy fiction—a long tradition that includes Homer and Apuleius, the Holy Grail, The Faerie Queene. We are happy to see the re-emergence of magic in the works of contemporary author such as J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Ursula K. Le Guin, J.K. Rowling and others.

Forest officials rescue 18 hilly mynas from Tongi, at the outskirts of Dhaka.

An elderly man was trampled to death by a wild elephant while another died of cardiac arrest after being panicked at Pathorer Char village

Thousands of people, including children, of four wards under Santhia municipality have to cross a 200-foot-long bamboo bridge to

A victim, Nurul Islam from Sylhet, who was in jail for more than two years in place of his younger brother in a sensational murder case, gets bail from the High Court.

A farmer was killed by lightning at Muradpur village in Chouhali upazila of the district on Tuesday.

Fifty-three leaders and activists of ruling Awami League, including Fulchhari upazila unit president GM Salim Parvez, have been sued on charge of vandalising the offices at the upazila parishad complex on June 6.

Each day Mokhlesur Rahman rides his bicycle 15 kilometres from his Bakerganj home to Barisal City's Rupatali in pursuit of his

At least two people are killed by a herd of wild elephants in Dewanganj upazila of Jamalpur district.

Deputy Speaker Fazle Rabbi Miah is forced to adjourn the parliament sitting for want of speakers on the proposed budget for 2016-17 fiscal year.

Two officials from Indian High Commission today met with the family of a slain Hindu priest in Jhenidah and assured them of monetary assistance.

For pilgrims seeking to perform hajj in Saudi Arabia from Bangladesh, the process of online registration ends at 8:00pm tonight.