The newly elected mayors and councillors of three city corporations in Dhaka and Chittagong are sworn-in.

Newly elected mayors and councillors of three city corporations in Dhaka and Chittagong will be sworn-in on Wednesday morning.

Jagannath University authorities expels a student on charges of sexually assaulting a female teacher of the university.

Police arrest a man said to be a member of militant group Ansarullah Bangla Team in connection with the grisly bank robbery in Ashulia that left nine people including the branch manager killed.

A Dhaka court asks BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to appear before it on May 25 in connection with Zia Orphanage Trust and Zia Charitable Trust graft cases.

Acting secretary general of BNP Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was shifted to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in Dhaka from Kashimpur Jail in Gazipur for medical checkup.

Rab claims arrest of the owner of the Jheelpar structure that caved in two weeks ago and killed a dozen people in Dhaka’s Rampura.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia alleges that the government shifted former BNP lawmaker Nasir Uddin Pintu to Rajshahi jail from Dhaka “in a bid to kill him”.

A youth was shot dead and another suffered bullet wounds after unidentified miscreants opened fire at Dakkhin Badda in Dhaka.

Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) has claimed responsibility for the murder of an American atheist blogger in Bangladesh over two months ago, according to SITE Intelligence Group.

With reports emanating from New Delhi that the BJP-government is keen to exclude Assam from implementation of LBA with Bangladesh, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi requests Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to take such a decision.

Sahasra Nagorik Committee, a citizen platform, says that the just concluded Dhaka and Chittagong city corporation polls were held in a free, fair and credible manner.

At least eight people were shot and seven others injured during a clash between the businessmen of Banani DNCC market and police during eviction drive.

Miscreants partially damage the decoration of the tomb of BNP founder and late president Ziaur Rahman in Dhaka’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar.

A group of Bangladesh Ansar members, demanding their remuneration of yesterday’s city polls duty, blocked a major road in the capital this evening, leading to a clash with the police at Mirpur.

A man and his two minor daughters are found dead in Dhaka, in what police primarily suspected was a suicide case over family feud.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says that the just concluded elections to Chittagong and Dhaka cities were conducted in a free and fair fashion.

Dr Syed Humayun Akhter, Professor and Chairman of Department of Geology at Dhaka University, speaks to Nahela Nowshin of The Daily Star about earthquake risk assessment and management in Bangladesh.

AL-backed Dhaka South City Corporation mayor candidate Sayeed Khokon and a number of councillors allegedly hire rickshaws to give voters a free ride to the voting centres.

Activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of the ruling party, Awami League, threaten a presiding officer for barring them from entering a polling centre in Dhaka University.