Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Shafiqul Islam said they have started the process of dismissing 26 police personnel -- found positive in dope tests.

A college student died of electrocution after he touched a tin-shed house while playing cricket in Dhaka’s South Kamalapur area.

Train communication between Dhaka and Narayanganj has been restored after around seven and half hours due to derailment of a commuter train in the morning.

Students of Sylhet MC College today staged demonstrations, setting fire on the road, in front of the college --protesting the rape of a woman at the dormitory last night.

A man has been stabbed to death, allegedly by his step-son, in Dhaka's Dakshinkhan area.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive arrested parents of prime accused Mizanur Rahman of the murder case of Savar schoolgirl Nila Roy, on Thursday night.

Three days into an attempt to grab land belonging to Catholic diocese in Sylhet, miscreants attacked again on Thursday.

Rights organisation Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) has expressed deep concern over the recent spate of rapes and sexual assaults in different parts of the country.

Although the paper books of sensational August 21 grenade attack, Holey Artisan Bakery attack and Feni madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi murder cases have already been prepared, the High Court is yet to start hearing on their death references and appeals for different reasons, delaying justice.

Dhaka University Teachers’ Association yesterday protested the decision of giving Sher-e-Bangla Agriculture University (SAU) registrar the charge of vice-chancellor of the university.

A seven-year-old child was scorched as a maktab (centre for elementary Arabic learning) teacher allegedly threw hot water from a flask at him.

The government has appointed Md Nazrul Islam, currently serving as the director general of Multilateral Economic Affairs Wing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as the new ambassador to Ethiopia.

After three years I have returned to a birding spot in Purbachol that I once frequented. While the rest of this massive urban expansion east of Dhaka has developed fast in the last few years, this small area remains largely unscathed.

Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) has begun distributing cash assistance to some 23,000 Covid-19 affected marginalised households in 38 districts through a three-month emergency cash transfer initiative, under the Excluded People’s Rights in Bangladesh (EPR) Programme, supported by the UK government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).

To change his and his family’s fortune, Zia Mollah flew to Brunei on October 30 last year after collecting Tk 3.20 lakh expense by selling land and sister-in-law’s gold ornaments.

Four-year old Nusrat Jahan Mim, whose body was found in a bathroom at Karail slum in Dhaka on Wednesday, was killed by her elder brother, said Rab.

Some 292 protests were held across Bangladesh for different reasons since Covid-19 hit the country in March, said a report of Dhaka University’s Centre for Genocide Studies (CGS).

With the cabinet division having already directed Padma Bridge Rail Link Project (PBRLP) authority to redesign viaducts due to the poor vertical and horizontal clearance, the railways minister, who visited the site along with planning minister yesterday, tried to down play the problem.

Smartphones seem to be stuck after achieving an evolutionary height. Every device is a large rectangular slab usually black. Some argue that the form has achieved the ultimate mix of perfection and functionality.

The prosecution yesterday sought highest punishment -- life term imprisonment -- for expelled Jubo Mohila League leader Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman Sumon in an arms case.