The tremor has tilted two six-storied residential buildings at Mazed Sardar Road in old part of Dhaka and Shanirakhra area in the capital.

Yesterday’s attempt by a group of people to occupy BNP headquarters has raised many eyebrows.The move comes at a time when the party is preparing to demonstrate on January 5, the date when the last general election was held. ‘Asol BNP’, literally meaning ‘Real BNP’, which made the attempt, is a group that came into existence a year ago after the BNP-led alliance started a protest in January last year.

In the wake of tension rising over planned political rallies by Awami League and BNP to mark the January 5 general election, Dhaka Metropolitan Police says it will not allow holding of counter rallies on that day.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan says whether BNP will be given the permission or not to stage rally at Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka will be decided after the assessment of the security arrangement.

A youth is killed in what law enforcers said gunfight at Rupnagar in Dhaka’s Mirpur area.

Two relatives were hit by bullets when unidentified gunmen opened fire at a human haulier on the Dhaka-Mawa highway in Keraniganj upazila of Dhaka yesterday afternoon.

Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif says people will give befitting reply if BNP carries out terrorism in the name of programme on January 5.

The activists of BNP youth and student wings lock into a clash with a group of people, who claimed themselves as “Asal BNP” [Original BNP], when they went to grab the party’s Nayapaltan central office in Dhaka.

The most striking example of how poorly the zoo is now being managed is seeing a sheep giving company to a lonely rhino. You can also see a deer as a companion to a lonely Bhutanese cow. In short the zoo looks like a place where all animals are kept to die quickly.

A Dhaka court places three suspected members of banned Islamist outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) on a four-day fresh remand in a case filed under Anti-Terrorism Act.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina calls for improving the quality and diversification of items to fetch more foreign exchange while inaugurating the month-long Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF) 2016.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) welcomes convictions in the case of Bangladeshi blogger Rajib Haider, who was hacked to death in February 2013.

On this chilly Friday morning, you may enjoy a stroll through warm sand dunes without going far from the city centre. This little known white expanse of flat sand is on the other side of the Buriganga and incredibly close to city dwellers. From Dhaka Zero Point you may cycle to this lustrous area in less than 30 minutes on holidays. You take the Bangladesh-China Friendship Bridge to cross the river and turn left to follow a narrow asphalt road, which leads you to a place called Sowarighat some two to three kilometres away. Stretches of fallow land are all around Sowarighat. A branch of Buriganga once flowed through it and people took boats to cross that rivulet. Now the rivulet is dead and you cross it walking over an earth dam.

Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) fines Arambagh Krira Sangha Tk 30 lakh over the recent attack on the BFF house by the club supporters.

Slain blogger Rajib's father rejects the verdict of his son’s murder alleging that it was "dictated".

The Gonojagoron Mancha rejects the verdict handed for February 2013 murder of blogger Rajib Haider and called for protests.

After forfeiting from mayoral race, an independent candidate in Dhamrai municipality in Dhaka today said he had no other way but quit.

Australia alerts its nationals over possible security threat in Dhaka – possibly in connection with New Year celebrations.

The US embassy in Dhaka warns its citizens of ‘possible attacks’ against hotels and clubs in Dhaka city potentially in connection with New Year’s Eve celebrations.

Rapid Action Battalion members arrest 11 alleged human traffickers in Paltan area of Dhaka and rescue two female trafficking victims.