With loan default allegation no longer standing in the way, Tabith Awal, son of BNP’s Abdul Awal Mintoo, is now a legal candidate for Dhaka North City Corporation polls.

The prime minister is flouting electoral laws by sponsoring the candidates of Dhaka and Chittagong city corporation polls, BNP complains.

Airport Armed Police Battalion (APBn) members seize 14 gold bars weighing 1.7 kilogrammes at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

Police detain two persons with 27 crude bombs and bomb-making materials from a house in Lalbagh area of Dhaka.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will offer ziarat at the grave of her youngest son Arafat Rahman Koko at Banani civil graveyard in Dhaka this afternoon.

A man is stabbed and slaughtered to death allegedly by household help at his Gendaria residence in Dhaka.

Thousands of people suffer on Dhaka city streets this afternoon for the mass parade of Shipping Minster Shahjahan Khan that crippled vehicular movements through key streets.

Political unrest during January to mid March of the current year has caused for a gross domestic product (GDP) loss of 0.55 percent or Tk 4,900 crore, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD).

The death toll in Bogra has reached 19 as nor’wester lashed different areas of the district last evening.

BNP chief Khaleda Zia will return to her house tomorrow after 91-day stay at her Gulshan office. Before that she will go to court at 9:30am, a media wing staff says.

Authorities reject BNP leader Abdul Awal Mintoo's appeal challenging cancellation of his nomination for Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayoral race.

A construction worker dies after falling from an under-construction 10-storey building at Banasree in Dhaka

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will appear before a Dhaka court on Sunday to seek bail in Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust corruption cases, her counsel Sanaullah Miah says.

An out of control bus kills two workers and injured one at the Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover construction site in Dhaka.

Customs intelligence detain a cabin crew of Kuwait Airways with over 500 grammes of gold at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

Two turbo-prop Dash 8-Q 400 aircraft that Biman Bangladesh Airlines leased to resume its domestic operation arrived in Dhaka.

Customs officials seize 12 gold bars, weighing around 12 kilogrammes and worth around Tk 6 crore, from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

A group of auto-rickshaw drivers beat up a traffic police constable allegedly for seizing a battery-run auto-rickshaw at Meradia of Khilgaon in Dhaka

Dhaka is sending a two-member team, comprising of the counsellor at Bangladesh Embassy in Kuwait and a staff, to Yemen today to help repatriate the Bangladeshi nationals trapped in the war-torn country.

At least 100 workers of a readymade garments factory fell sick and were hospitalised after eating the food provided to them in Gazipur’s Kashimpur.