A Dhaka tribunal today took cognisance of charges against ATM Azharul Islam, an assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami, and 149 others in a case filed under Explosive Substances Act.

A Bagerhat court today sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping a child in Mongla upazila. The verdict was announced within seven working days of the incident.

At least 25 people, including three policemen, were injured in a clash between police and former jute mill workers on Khulna-Jashore highway today.

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

The plaintiff of a murder case was allegedly abducted on Saturday, tortured overnight and forced him to sign on a blank paper in Rowmari upazila of Kurigram.

Bodies of two siblings have been recovered from the No Mans’ Land along Bangladesh-India border in Parshuram upazila of Feni.

A drug addict youth killed his father allegedly for money in Ghatail upazila on Saturday night.

A Jamalpur court yesterday sentenced a man to death and two others to life term imprisonment in a case for killing a youth in 2011.

Police rescued a female student in an unconscious state, with her hands and legs tied, from a roadside bush near SM Sultan Complex in Kurigram area

Some metal parts of a warplane have been unearthed while a farmer was digging his farmland in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila on Friday.

The two-century-old twin temples, Shree Shree Anandamoyee Shiva and Kali Mata Mandir, in Mymensingh’s Muktagachha upazila is in dilapidated state for decades, thanks to the indifference of the authorities concerned.

Police recovered the body of a homeopath doctor from Chitra river in Jashore’s Bagharpara upazila of the district early Saturday.

Senior journalist Aziz Ahmed Selim died at a hospital tonight soon after contracting Covid-19. He was 67-years-old.

The forested areas inside the national park adjacent to the Kuakata beach are disappearing over time as sand is continuously being eroded by waves, eventually uprooting and sweeping away trees.

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi today said the Trading Corporation Bangladesh (TCB) will start selling potatoes at Tk 25 per kg through trucks.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has started the registration process to operate flights on the Dhaka-Rome route.

Ferry service in the Padma river on the Shimulia-Kathalbari route has remained suspended for the last three days due to lack of navigability.

BNP today alleged that the Election Commission has “deceived the people” with its “inactive and subservient role” during Saturday’s by-polls to Dhaka-5 and Naogaon-6 seats.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen today said international NGOs, including UNHCR, were creating pressure against the Bhasan Char relocation programme even though some Rohingyas were willing to go there.

Two men were killed and another injured as a truck hit a motorcycle in Singra upazila of Natore this afternoon.