Police recovered body of a two-year-old from a bin of a building in Dhaka’s Hazaribagh area this morning.

The High Court yesterday refused to grant bail to an engineer, Md Shafiqul Islam, in three cases filed over corruption in purchasing furniture and household items for the officials of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna.

For the second consecutive day, a group of North South University students staged a sit-in in front of their campus yesterday, demanding 30 percent waiver of fees for the upcoming fall semester.

Residents of ward-33 in Rangpur city have been suffering immensely since part of a clay road connecting Damdama bridge was washed away following a record-breaking downpour on September 26.

Brac Bank Ltd yesterday filed a petition with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court seeking a stay on its High Court verdict that directed the bank to give Tk 15 lakh in compensation to jute mill worker Jaha Alam, who had suffered in jail for three years instead of the real accused in several corruption cases.

Following a report published in The Daily Star, a Supreme Court lawyer yesterday served a legal notice on the government to form a committee in three days to probe the negligence in renovating two-century-old twin temples at Muktagachha in Mymensingh and to take appropriate action against the officials responsible for the negligence.

The Detective Branch of police in a raid at Noorjahan Road in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area yesterday claimed to have busted a fake currency manufacturing mini-factory, owned by one Humayun Kabir who had previously been arrested six times for the same offence.

Around five-kilometre-long structure of long-cherished Padma Bridge is now visible, after another span of the bridge was installed yesterday.

Three police constables yesterday testified before a Sylhet court in the case filed in connection with the murder of Rayhan Ahmed, who was allegedly tortured at Bandarbazar police outpost on October 11.

Bangladesh National Advisory Committee on Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Chairperson Saima Wazed Hossain on Sunday said mental health services are essential to achieve SDGs, and such ailments should be treated with care.

Article 70 of the constitution has crippled the parliamentary government system, said Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader yesterday

A leading rights organisation yesterday filed a writ petition with the High Court, praying to it to declare salish (arbitrations) in settling incidents of rape as a criminal offence.

As Covid-19 infections continue across the country, several bookstores in the capital are creatively rebooting.

Upon receiving complaints from child pornography victims and different international law enforcement agencies, the digital forensic team of the cybercrime unit of the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) has arrested three Bangladeshi youths from different areas of Dhaka under the Pornography Control Act.

Department of Environment (DoE) of Chattogram region today fined 10 businesses Tk 13,60,000 for hill cutting, violating the terms of clearance certificates and not renewing them.

Rapid Action Battalion detained seven members of a gang that the elite force says is involved in illegal drugs from Dhaka’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area.

A man and his father-in-law were arrested today by Rab. The duo had been “cheating patients”, pretending to be dentists.

Detective Branch of police claimed to have busted a “fake currency manufacturing mini-factory” on Nurjahan Road in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area last night.

A man and his son were killed when the motorcycle they were on lost control and hit an electric pole in Dhaka's Jatrabari last night.

Former state minister and BNP leader AKM Mosharraf Hossain was laid to rest at his family graveyard at Kandigaon village in Mymensingh yesterday.