The High Court rejects a writ petition challenging Sections 57 (1) and 86 of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) act, terming it premature as the government is considering some steps regarding the law.

A tribunal in Dhaka defers the date of passing order on contempt of court proceedings against Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Zafrullah Chowdhury to September 1.

The government of India works on an ordinance to amend the Citizenship Act to grant citizenship to "persecuted" Hindu refugees from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Bangladesh Chhatra League attack a teachers’ demonstration demanding vice-chancellor’s resignation at Shahjalal University in Sylhet.

Three people are killed when a Dhaka-bound bus ploughed through a tea stall in Savar, the outskirts of Dhaka.

An Indian court sends to jail 29 people including eight Bangladeshis who were detained while smuggling around 320 cattle through Indian border.

Saeed Ajmal says he is confident of playing for Pakistan again despite his struggles since returning with a remodelled action.

A witness identifies one of the four suspects held in connection with blogger Niloy murder, confirming that he took part in the August 7 grisly killing at Goran neighbourhood in Dhaka, cops say.

BNP denounces the recent price hike on power and gas and urged the government to re-fix the tariff holding a mass hearing with different political parties and other stake holders.

Indian police claim rescue of a Bangladeshi teenage girl from human traffickers in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal last week, detain two.

A Dhaka court grants three-day remand against each of the five people held in connection with a case filed against them for their alleged involvement with international human organ trafficking syndicate.

The UN says "much more is required" to prevent the deaths of migrants fleeing to Europe after hundreds were reported dead in recent days.

Three of a family killed, four injured as a microbus plunges into a roadside ditch in Bakshiganj upazila of Jamalpur.

Terming the decision to increase power tariff as ‘unjustified’, Awami League lawmaker Suranjit Sengupta calls upon the government to reconsider it.

The first namaz-e-janaza of Jatiya Party (Z) chairman and former prime minister Kazi Zafar Ahmed holds at Biswa Ijtema ground in Tongi.

What began as the construction of a one-of-a-kind elevated expressway in Dhaka two years ago, the Moghbazar flyover has suffered periods of lags in the making. The traffic situation along the construction site that has turned worse is unlikely to get better until the completion of the structure – not before 2017.

Three female students has been electrocuted to death and thirteen others injured in a residential madrasa in Manda upazila of Naogaon this evening.

United Nations Special Rapporteur Heiner Bielefeldt will visit Bangladesh from August 31 to September 9 to assess the state of freedom of religion or belief in the country.

Jatiya Party, a key component in the Awami League-led 14-party alliance, in an immediate reaction has criticises the government for raising power and gas prices.

Police claimed to have detained 13 police impersonators and doping gang members from Dhaka.