The Supreme Court has upheld a High Court verdict with some modifications and guidelines to stop police force from making arbitrary arrests on suspicion and torturing arrestees on remand.

Dhaka has not yet made any decision about who will represent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's swearing-in ceremony on May 27.

The Supreme Court will deliver a verdict today on a long-pending appeal against the High Court directives on the detention of any person under suspicion and subsequent dealings with the detainees on remand.

The holy Shab-e-Barat, the night of fortune, has been observed across the country with due religious fervor and solemnity.

It's a road, but you can't see it. All you see is sewerage water and human waste overflowing it and household and commercial garbage

It was quarter to 10 in the morning yesterday. A wet Abu Hossain, a rickshaw puller, was waiting all alone for passengers in the

Rains, caused by cyclone Roanu, swamp many parts of Dhaka, living the city life in disarray.

Daffodil International University (DIU) defeats Independent University Bangladesh (IUB) by 74 runs on the opening day of the DIU T20 Cricket Tournament 2016 at the DIU campus in Ashulia yesterday.

DMP announces Tk 5 lakh bounty on each of two Ansarullah organisers while Tk 2 lakh for each of four members of the banned militant outfit for their alleged link with recent militant attacks in the country.

If you visit Dhaka’s Gulshan, Banani and Baridhara areas nowadays, you will have to brace yourself for never-ending traffic, dust and mud. And there is always a risk that you may even fall into a ditch. The posh areas are now undergoing a development work including widespread road digging, which has led to this miserable situation.

A total of 138 children were raped during the first four months of the current year, according to a report revealed by Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum.

A war crimes accused hailing from Laxmipur died this morning while attending treatments at a hospital in Dhaka under police custody.

A Supreme Court lawyer sends a legal notice to the cabinet secretary requesting him not to hold the cabinet meeting at Secretariat saying that the prime minister’s movement for this meeting creates traffic jam in the city.

Tehrik-e-Khatme Nabuwwat, an Islamist group, has come on the scene apparently to counter the public outrage over the humiliation of a Hindu schoolteacher in Narayanganj.

Law enforcers detain a Chinese citizen from an ATM booth of Prime Bank on Elephant Road in Dhaka suspecting his involvement in card scam.

BNP-Jamaat nexus has joined hands with Israel to oust her government, as they are working against the country and Islam, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina alleges. "The truth can never be suppressed...the BNP-Jamaat clique has joined hands with those who are frequently killing children and women in Palestine," she says.

A feeling of being watched would take over once you step on the premises of Piyar Sattar Latif High School at Kallyandi, a remote village in Narayanganj.

Fire broke out at the new building of Jagannath University in the Old Dhaka. The fire has been doused and no reports of casualty filed.

A prisoner in Dhaka Central Jail has to spend around Tk 30,000 a month for food and other services which the state is supposed to provide for free.

Police say they see a link between some major murders with the execution of some convicted war criminals. Blames have been put on a group "who were of anti-liberation spirit and are against the war trials."