West Indies lift the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 2016 after they vanquish favourites India by five wickets at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur.

A BNP leader needs to be recommended by at least five leaders of the party’s grassroots if he wants to contest the upcoming union parishad polls.

Bangladesh fail to advance to the final match of the 12th South Asian Games Men's Football tournament when India inflicted a 3-0 defeat on Sohel Rana and co at the Indira Gandhi Stadium.

The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) detain one of its members along with four people in connection with extortion in Narayanganj.

This season Shakib will play in four T20 leagues around the world. At present, he is playing for Karachi Kings in Pakistan Super League.

National Committee to Protect Sundarbans demands that a UN-led committee, comprising of scientists, be formed to protect the world's largest mangrove forest.

Bangladesh maintained its broad commitment to democracy which is one of the core values of US government, its Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs Thomas Shannon has said.

The Saraswati Puja is being celebrated with much festivity and fervor across the country.

Carrom board is the second most common thing in Bangladesh for a Bangladeshi after the crow, and also second behind the rickshaw for a foreigner and definitely second after the dirt, grime and pollution for a non-residential Bangladeshi (NRB) just arrived…Ufff, ki gondho (What the stench is this?)

Three alleged robbers are beaten to death by a mob in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj.

Bangladesh secure third place in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2016 after defeating Sri Lanka by three wickets in a tense match at Fatullah stadium.

A pedestrian is killed and another injured when a car went off road and ploughed through a footpath in Shanir Akhra area of Dhaka.

Bangladesh’s largest flower market in Jessore’s Jhikorgacha has already sold off over Tk 8 crore flowers ahead of Pahela Falgun and Valentine’s Day.

Dhaka’s rail links with northern and southern districts of Bangladesh are severed from this afternoon after an inter-city train derailed in Pabna.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will make an hour stopover in Dhaka early Sunday.

BNP will participate in the upcoming Union Parishad (UP) election although it has doubts over the free and fair arrangement of the polls.

Primary task to conduct a census of unregistered Rohingya population in Bangladesh has begun in six districts.

Two people sustain burn injuries in a fire caused by gas leak at their residence in Dhaka’s East Rampura area.

The United States has highly appreciated Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s strong leadership role in fighting terrorism, and hoped that Bangladesh will continue to demonstrate its ‘strong commitment’.

A two-member committee is formed to monitor the biometric system of mobile phone SIM re-registration following some anomalies found in the system, State Minister for Post and Telecommunication Tarana Halim says.