At least five people suffer splinter injuries as unknown miscreants blasted a crude bomb during a rally of Awami League’s mayoral candidate at Nawhata municipality in Rajshahi.

A mayor aspirant pulls out of Sitakunda municipality election following an attack on his press conference by Awami League activists last night.

A Chittagong court places three members of banned Islamist outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), who were arrested yesterday, on a five-day remand in a case filed for terrorist activities.

The Supreme Court uphold a High Court order that asked the returning officer concerned to allow Awami League’s rebel candidate Ahsan Habib Pranjol to contest for the mayoral post in Kachua municipality election in Chandpur.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia terms the upcoming municipality polls “farcical” and said her party will stay in the race until the last minute.

BNP alleges that it could not telecast an advertisement as part of its electoral campaign due to government intervention.

The group stage of the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Championship 2015 ends on Monday, with the first of the two fixtures featuring the bottom two sides's of Group B, Bhutan and Bangladesh.

Teachers of Jahangirnagar University start a week-long work abstention programme protesting Finance Minister AMA Muhith’s statement that there is no scope left for the review of the 8th national pay scale in favour of the university teachers.

A Dhaka court sets February 17 for charge framing hearing of Niko graft case against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and 10 others.

The year 2015 is ending with some positive notes for the Bangladesh economy, though challenges continue to accompany them.

Two JMB suspects were killed when a Rapid Action Battalion team raided an abandoned house in Vogra of Gazipur late last night.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a Facebook post calls upon voters to cast their votes in favour of the party’s mayoral candidates in the December 30 municipality elections.

The BNP candidate for Chittagong’s Satkania municipality declares to quit the race alleging “pressures from different quarters”.

The authorities withdraw two officers-in-charge in Sunamganj and Noakhali for their alleged controversial roles ahead of the upcoming municipality polls.

Cricket Australia's security officials to sit in on a security briefing for ICC officials in Dhaka on December 28 and 29 in view of the Under-19 World Cup that is scheduled to begin in Bangladesh on January 27.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members to be deployed in municipal polls areas to hold the December 30 elections in a free, fair and congenial atmosphere.

Those questioning the number of martyrs in the country’s Liberation War either do not know the history or are trying to distort it, said Professor Anisuzzaman.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia claims she is confident of her party’s landslide win in the upcoming municipality elections on December 30.

The investigation agency of International Crimes Tribunal says investigation against 195 Pakistani prisoners of war will be started in “suitable environment” following “directive from higher authorities”.

A church at Srimangal upazila of Moulvibazar district was gutted in fire. No one was reported injured in the fire.