The government has approved multiple power projects near hilsa sanctuaries in Patuakhali coastal area, posing a threat to the breeding and nurturing of the national fish.

The magnitude of unrest in Bangladesh’s garments industry comes down after yesterday’s revision of wages and threats of factory closure.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said his party would consider joining a fresh dialogue with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina only after knowing about its agenda.

The Election Commission is likely to announce the schedule for the upazila parishad polls in the first week of February.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reappointed her five advisers.

Reiterating her government's firm stance against corruption, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government would continue its fight against graft to keep up the country's development spree and uphold its achievements.

Bangladesh government has revised the wages for apparel workers in purview of a non-ending spate of unrest in its garments sector.

Bowling figures could hardly tell you anything about what Mustafizur Rahman did to secure a five-run victory for the Rajshahi Kings in the day's first Bangladesh Premier League encounter against Rangpur Riders at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday said the opposition could exist outside the parliament if they worked for the masses.

The fact-finding committee of National Human Rights Commission did not find any link between the general election and the gang rape of a housewife in Noakhali's Subarnachar the following day, contradicting the claim of the victim herself.

Jatiya Oikyafront Convener Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday appreciated Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's decision to hold fresh talks with political parties, saying it was a positive step, the UNB reports.

Some good Samaritans rescued 10-year-old Russell from the rail lines in Kamalapur Railway Station and rushed him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on November 8 with serious injuries.

Information Minister Hasan Mahmud yesterday welcomed all types of constructive criticism from the media.

Women have to wear burqas if they want to go to colleges and universities and those institutes have to be run by women, Hefajat-e Islam's chief Allama Ahmed Shafi said in a statement yesterday.

Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina yesterday said she wanted to sit with all the political parties who were invited to the Gono Bhaban for pre-polls dialogues.

Robbie Frylinck, the 34-year all-rounder from South Africa, made his presence felt in the very first match of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) with a four-wicket haul and again shone with the bat and ball in the second game, but yesterday the gigantic man did

The government is expected to announce today a revised wage structure for apparel workers of grades 3, 4 and 5, in efforts to quell the labour unrest that has affected production in the country's largest forex-earning sector. At an emergency meeting yesterday, the 20-member crisis management committee formed to resolve the matter agreed in principle to increase the basic pay in those grades.

Border Guard Bangladesh officers yesterday said they shot dead two young Rohinyga men in Teknaf while they were smuggling in yaba pills.

The price of rice rose by around nine percent in the capital in 2018 compared to a year ago, while the cost of living increased by six percent, the lowest in nine years, said the Consumers Association of Bangladesh yesterday.

A female ready-made garment worker was allegedly raped at Rupganj in Narayanganj early Friday.