Fire officials douse the fire that broke out at a slum behind the BG Press at Tejgaon in Dhaka.

Pakistan has withdrawn a female diplomat from its high commission in Dhaka following allegations of financing terrorist activities in Bangladesh.

The year of 2016 will be the “year of cleanliness” for Dhaka city, the city’s South City Corporation Mayor Sayeed Khokon says.

Two women among 4 held at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport today with 14.5kg gold, worth around Tk 7 crore, concealed in their waist.

Senior leaders of BNP meet foreign envoys of 15 countries at BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office to raise their concerns and clear the party’s stance regarding participation in the upcoming municipality elections.

At least 35 shanties are gutted in a fire that broke out in slum of Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area. No casualties were reported.

A group of supporters of Arambagh Krira Sangha allegedly carry out vandalism at Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) office in Dhaka following the team's defeat against Bangladesh Police in the Minister Fridge Bangladesh Championship League.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan says visible security will be in place alongside intelligence surveillance during the Christmas celebrations on December 25.

Police in a raid detain 23 people including 13 students from the dormitories of Dhaka College in the city.

Police claim arrest of six activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, and recover one kilogramme of gunpowder from their possession at Rampura in the capital.

A Dhaka court takes into cognisance the charge sheet in the murder case filed over Rana Plaza collapse that killed over a thousand people in April 2013. The court also issued arrest warrant against absconding 24 accused.

Bangladesh is set to see 50 percent urban population in the next four decades as people are increasingly migrating to the urban areas for livelihoods, education or as fallouts of climate change.

Dhaka South City Corporation authorities evicts over 100 shops built illegally occupying footpaths in the city’s busy Gulistan intersection as part of a month-long drive.

The Election Commission urges the ministers, lawmakers and other government officials concerned not to violate the electoral code of conduct ahead of the municipality polls, its official says.

Fire breaks out at an office room of the second floor of Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. Believed to have been caused by an electrical malfunction, the fire is said to have caused insignificant damage.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will sit with pro-BNP professionals tonight to discuss the country’s latest political situation and work out strategies for the December 30 municipality polls.

A false post regarding an American woman falling in love and marrying a Bangladeshi rickshaw puller over his honesty spread like wildfire on the internet.

The Dhaka Premier League 2015-16 season due to begin in March next year will adopt the players-by-choice transfer method after its proposal was passed through votes by the respective clubs.

A construction worker is killed as an iron plate fell on him while he was working in an under-construction building site in the city’s Kathalbagan area.

Muggers looted Tk1.20 lakh after stabbing a fruit trader at Dayaganj intersection in Dhaka city early today.