A Dhaka court places BNP chairperson's adviser Shawkat Mahmud on a four-day fresh remand in four separate arson and vandalism cases.

The process of extradition of Nur Hossain – the prime accused in Narayanganj seven murder – from India seems to be gathering momentum with the West Bengal government seeking to withdraw charges of trespassing against him.

But it does not need Economist Intelligence Unit’s ranking for anybody to know that Dhaka has been rotting, stinking and becoming more terrible to live in every year.

The forest department has issued a special alert in the Sundarbans following killing of six ‘tiger poachers’ in a ‘gunfight’ with police and recovery of three tiger skins from the world’s largest mangrove earlier this month.

The cabinet approves a proposal for ratification of "The Motor Vehicles Agreement for the Regulation of Passenger, Personal and Cargo Vehicular Traffic between Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal".

The Supreme Court upholds a High Court verdict that directed the government to demolish and remove the recreation centre from Buriganga river at Kamrangirchar area in Dhaka.

A Sylhet court accepts the charge sheet pressed against 13 people, including the prime accused Kamrul Islam, in the murder case of 13-year-old Samiul Islam Rajon.

The Supreme Court upholds High Court verdict that maintained Dhaka University’s decision to allow an admission seeker to sit for the university entry examination only once.

Two people were killed in a clash centring land dispute between two groups of villagers in Kaliganj upazila of Satkhira.

Detectives claimed to have detained six people including two members of the banned organisation Hizb-ut Tahrir from the capital’s Uttara and Mugda areas.

Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Hoque justifies the recent “gunfights” saying law enforcers have the right to self-defence.

Awami League senior lawmaker Suranjit Sengupta strongly criticises the government for the recent “crossfire” incidents saying killing of people in the name of crossfire cannot take place in a civilised country.

The Editors’ Council strongly demands scrapping of Section 57 of the Information and Communication Technology Act.

A group of students from University of Japan in Bangladesh take matters on their hand lending their effort to make a cleaner Dhaka and raise awareness among all for the same.

Prosecution claims that the three lawyers, who were arrested over funding Islamist extremism, confessed before a court in Chittagong about their involvement in the act.

At least five people are killed and 34 injured in a head-on-collision between two buses in Gualondo Ghat upazila of Rajbari.

The government will move a review with the apex court seeking death for convicted war criminal Delwar Hossain Sayedee, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam says.

Malaysian authorities have found mass graves containing the remains of more than 20 people believed to be human trafficking victims near the border with Thailand, police said.

A local woman activist of the ruling Awami League is killed in Chandpur Sadar upazila.

A suspected robber is killed and five policemen injured in what law enforcers term as a 'gunfight' in Dakkhin Keraniganj, Dhaka.