The government should carry out further investigation to find out whether the suspected Bangladesh Bank officials were really involved in the $101 million cyber heist, says Mohammed Farashuddin, head of the three-member body that probed the theft.

It takes 14 million litres of irrigation water to produce six tonnes of Boro rice on one hectare of typical farmland in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh pace sensation Mustafizur Rahman returns to Dhaka from his hometown Satkhira to attend a rehabilitation programme at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday hinted that BNP-Jamaat men had links with the recent secret killings and the government had substantial evidence in this regard. These two parties have changed their tactics and started attacking some “soft targets,” following public wrath for their arson attacks early last year, she added.

The Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) is set to offer Dutch coach Lodewijk de Kruif another partial contract for the national team's Asian Cup qualifying playoff against Bhutan in September and October.

Advocate Siddique Ullah Miah, a Supreme Court lawyer, yesterday sent a legal notice to the government, requesting it to take

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday interrogated five more senior officials of Janata Bank as witnesses in a graft case filed over Tk 250 crore loan scam.

Narayanganj police have sought two months' time from the High Court for submitting reports on the incident of public humiliation of schoolteacher Shyamal Kanti Bhakta.

Just the other day a truck laden with iron rods was lumbering ahead of us, as we were heading home in the middle of the night after work. The entire journey was freaking me out. I held my 15-month-old son tight against my chest.

Wild elephants killed two people when villagers were trying to drive them away from Purbo Pathorerchar village in the district's Dewanganj upazila yesterday.

The body of a teenage boy was found with his throat slit in the district's Bochaganj upazila yesterday.

Police have yet to make any arrest in connection with the gruesome killing of elderly Hindu priest Ananda Gopal Ganguly, who was hacked to death on Tuesday.

Terming political situation in Bangladesh worrying, members of the European Parliament (EP) called for dialogue between democratic parties of the country to reach a political consensus, and for greater respect for freedom of speech.

The government will continue with the month-long special anti-adulteration drives across the country as a section of unscrupulous traders do brisk business by selling substandard food during the month of Ramadan.

The main fugitive accused of last year's Bogra Shia mosque attack in Bogra was killed in a “gunfight” with police at Shibganj of Bogra early yesterday.

Detectives in Chittagong seize a black microbus and detain its driver on suspicion of their link with the killing of SP Babul Akter's wife.

At least five workers sustain burn injuries as a fire broke out at an insecticide factory in Ashulia on the outskirts of Dhaka.

At least two people are killed by a herd of wild elephants in Dewanganj upazila of Jamalpur district.

A speech impaired woman, 23, is allegedly raped in Waliar Birulia village of Savar last night.

Deputy Speaker Fazle Rabbi Miah is forced to adjourn the parliament sitting for want of speakers on the proposed budget for 2016-17 fiscal year.