Just nine runs behind the Tigers' first-innings total on 504 for three with two set batsmen in Roshen Silva and skipper Dinesh Chandimal at the crease after the third day, Sri Lanka are in prime position to take control of the first Test and stretch their lead today at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will give her party leaders a guideline today on how the party will run in her absence if she is convicted in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case, say party insiders.

Two years have gone by since the Bangladesh Bank cyber heist, but Bangladesh could not bring back the major chunk of the $81 million wired to the Philippines from BB's account with the New York Fed.

Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, a senior judge of the Supreme Court, was appointed the 22nd chief justice of the country yesterday, superseding Justice Md Abdul Wahhab Miah, who had been discharging duties of the chief justice for the last four months.

“All the 16 crore people [of the country] would be incorporated into the national pension system."

The Election Commission has filed two separate leave-to-appeal petitions with the Supreme Court seeking a stay on the High Court order that has halted the process for holding a by-election to the Dhaka North City Corporation.

Despite a number of measures and the government's stern warning over question paper leak, the Secondary School Certificate examinations began across the country yesterday amid controversy.

People can expect a strong grip on contaminating food and its marketing as Bangladesh Food Safety Authority is gearing up its activities in a coordinated manner to ensure food safety from farm to plate.

A professor at Jahangirnagar University secretly married one of his students, forced her to abort their first child and then divorced her three days after she gave birth to a second one, the victim said in a written complaint to the JU authorities.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is set to instruct her party leaders and activists tomorrow to prepare for the next parliamentary elections and also to be ready for a movement in case the government tries to hold one-sided polls "again".

Skipper Mahmudullah Riyad's unbeaten 83 was the only highlight on the second day of the first Test for the home side as it helped Bangladesh post 513 in the first innings, but since then it was Sri Lanka who capitalised on the docile pitch that was yet to offer much

Nine garment manufacturers have abused the Free of Cost facility and dodged tax of around Tk 120 crore by importing raw materials up to 22 times the permissible limit.

The ruling Awami League has nominated incumbent President Abdul Hamid as its candidate for the upcoming presidential election.

It was a day to make and break records and lift standards to the next level as Mominul Haque made a statement with his fifth Test

In a major political development, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has outlined a framework of the next polls-time government that will be smaller in size with limited jurisdiction and will carry out only routine work.

The two Marma sisters, one of whom was allegedly raped and the other sexually assaulted by members of security forces last week, are undergoing treatment at Rangamati Sadar Hospital under tight security.

Police have launched a crackdown on BNP leaders and activists in the capital and elsewhere ahead of the verdict scheduled to be delivered on February 8 in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case against party chief Khaleda Zia and her son Tarique Rahman.

The law enforcers as well as the BNP are highly cautious ahead of a Dhaka court's verdict in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case against Khaleda Zia on February 8.

Bangladesh has gone eight notches down in the EIU Democracy Index-2017 with its score on the state of democracy dropping compared to 2016.

It will be a test for the Tigers to overcome the disappointing defeat in the ODI tri-series final and move forward against a spirited Sri Lanka side in the first match of the two-Test series starting at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium from 9:30 am today.