The Bangladesh Cricket Board has contacted Pakistan's former bowling coach Aaqib Javed for a possible role with the Bangladesh team, and has also approved proposals for an expanded selection setup.

A writ petition is filed seeking the High Court directives upon the government to cancel licences of 20 pharmaceuticals companies on charge of producing substandard medicines.

Militants murdered the wife of Babul Akter, a superintendent of police, to demoralise him, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan says.

Unidentified miscreants stab a businessman to death in Boraigram upazila of Natore this noon.

The Supreme Court upholds the High Court order that granted bail to lawyer Shakila Farjana in two cases filed over her alleged involvement in financing a militant outfit.

Motorbike riding assailants reportedly stab and shoot dead wife of a police officer in Chittagong city, police say. Law enforcers are probing link of militants with the murder.

Social instability and rigid stances of union parishad polls candidates were responsible for the election violence, claimed Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad yesterday.

Customs Intelligence officials at Osmani International Airport yesterday arrested a Bangladeshi-origin UK citizen for carrying 150 shotgun cartridges from England.

A female teacher in Bagatipara upazila of Natore beat up 42 girl students of her madrasa on January 31 while inquiring into a petty theft.

The Indian High Commission yesterday began a 12-day “Eid Visa Camp” to help Bangladeshis get visas with ease if they wish to travel to the neighbouring country during the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr.

With hills and trees on both sides, the view of the Karnaphuli from Rangunia upazila's Lichu Bagan Mason Ghat is breathtaking. But that's where the good things end.

The BNP that ruled the country for over 10 years in two terms since the restoration of democracy in Bangladesh in 1990 is struggling to come up with formal reactions to the proposed budget for fiscal 2016-17.

The staggered union parishad elections, the deadliest in the country's electoral history, ended yesterday with four more lives lost in polls violence.

During his visit to Bangladesh over 38 years ago, Muhammad Ali was gifted a piece of land in Cox's Bazar by a local. The overwhelmed boxer had then reacted by saying he would like to make a dream home there one day. He said he had now a home to come to in case he ever was banished from his native land.

The extended Moghbazar Flyover ramp near Sonargaon Hotel may make the already crammed street even more congested, according to an expert and project officials. Moreover, a 50-metre carriageway deck of the ramp, already built in front of the Bangladesh Film Development Corporation (popularly known as the FDC) at a cost of around Tk 9.5 crore, would now have to be demolished, said a project official.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expresses deep shock at the death of boxing icon Muhammad Ali. She termed him as the greatest boxer of all time.

In broad daylight, a sand-laden cargo vessel hit one of the pillars of a bridge while crossing a canal in Kalaskathi of Bakerganj upazila, causing the bridge to collapse on the vessel.

The repatriation of Sonu, the “trafficked” Indian boy, hangs in the balance due to legal obligations.

India launches ‘Eid Visa Camp’, the first of its kind, to ease Bangladeshi national’s travel to the country during the Eid holidays.

Ever since Muhammad Ali's historic visit to Bangladesh 37 years ago, there has been this occasional speculation in local media as to what happened to the piece of land in Cox's Bazar which was promised to the legendary boxer.