A Dhaka court has placed five alleged militants, who were deported from Singapore, on seven-day remand each in connection with a case filed under the anti-terrorism act.

High Court has issued a rule upon the authorities concerned to explain by two weeks as to why they should not be directed to stop plying of vehicles on the wrong side of roads in Dhaka city.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police will not allow use of stickers on vehicles identifying various professions like journalists, police and lawyers.

Investigators have found evidence against 13 suspects of Mymensingh, Jamalpur and Patuakhali for their alleged crimes against humanity committed during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.

US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal holds a lengthy and extensive discussion with top officials of the Foreign Ministry on US-Bangladesh partnership and combating terrorism and extremism.

Mahfuzur Rashid Ferdous, a teacher of Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology in Dhaka, has been placed on a two-day remand in a case filed over sexual harassment.

Fire that broke out at a slum in Dhaka’s densely populated East Raja Bazar neighbourhood has been brought under control after around one and a half hours.

US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal will arrive in Dhaka tomorrow for a two day official visit to Bangladesh.

Police presses charges against BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and 42 others in an arson case filed with Paltan Police Station.

The overall inflation rate has dropped by 0.04 percentage point to 5.61 percent in April.

A man is killed and six others are injured as a bus hit two private cars at Gabtoli in Dhaka.

Six bars of gold are recovered in a man’s rectum at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

A special tribunal in Dhaka hands death penalty to four Razakars of Kishoreganj convicted of committing war crimes in 1971. One has been handed jail until death.

Law enforcers recover the body of a businessman from his rented house at Chawkbazar in Dhaka.

SC will deliver its verdict on May 5 on war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami’s petition seeking review of his death penalty.

Dhaka will ask Kuwait to help set up an oil refinery, further liberalise its recruitment policy for Bangladeshis and import

The fire service yesterday started a probe into the Karwan Bazar fire that gutted 186 shops on May Day.

Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) wants to reduce fare by 3 paisa per kilometre for long-haul buses following the recent fuel

Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) wants to reduce passenger fare by 3 paisa per kilometre for long haul buses following the recent cuts in fuel prices, while bus owners want to reduce the fare by 2 paisa.

The results of this year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations will be published on May 11.