A schoolboy dies after falling down from a mini-truck when the vehicle came under the attack of UPDF activists during a road blockade in Khagrachhari Sadar.

Five members of a family are burnt in a septic tank blast at their Dakshin Khan house of Dhaka.

The government shows interest in inking a deal with Facebook to ensure cyber security in Bangladesh.

The High Court upholds the death sentence of five convicts including a model, Sumaiya Kaniz Sagorika, for killing her husband Jahangir Alam in Dhaka in November 2008.

Eight persons including State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam and Rajshahi University Vice Chancellor Prof Muhammad Mizanuddin received death threats in Rajshahi today.

The High Court orders the government to take appropriate action against the managing committees of schools that are charging extra fees from Secondary School Certificate (SSC) candidates.

A Sylhet court awards death penalty to three persons including a sacked police constable for killing nine-year-old Abu Sayeed for ransom.

Dhaka North City Mayor Annisul Huq vows to take action against attackers who went berserk during an eviction drive at Tejgaon.

The former policeman, who fled from a Dhaka court yesterday while being sent to jail over the death of a detainee in 2012, is arrested in old part of Dhaka city.

Eleven people are sentenced to death for killing Jubo League leader Jalal Uddin in Kapasia upazila of Gazipur. Additional District and Sessions Judge pronounced the verdict.

Barisal Bulls comfortably beat Chittagong Vikings by 33 runs in the 13th match of BPL-2015 at ZAC stadium.

Cabinet gives approval to a proposal for forming two committees to resolve inter-ministerial disputes.

Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has batted for “borderless connectivity” with Bhutan, India and Nepal to “achieve fruit of the transport corridor” among these nations.

Energy and Mineral Resources Division Secretary Abu Bakar Siddique died of cardiac arrest at Square Hospital in the capital early today at the age of 58.

In Dhaka, what has been looked down upon as a city brimming with concrete walls, you can make a change of your own and spread more green to the ash – despite limited space.

A Dhaka court grants bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia after she surrendered before the court in Niko corruption case.

Three, including a root-level BNP leader and two of an alleged robber gang, killed in separate gunfights, law enforcers claim.

The Supreme Court upholds the High Court order that had granted bail to BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in three cases paving way for him to walk out of jail.

Detectives arrest four activists of militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) along with foreign currencies and passports at Uttara in Dhaka.

Robi yesterday said it would take a year to complete the merger with Airtel Bangladesh as the mobile phone operators will have to get