Claiming that the arrest of Shafik Rehman was made based on specific allegations, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said it had nothing to do with him being a journalist.

At least 413 people are now known to have died in the earthquake that struck Ecuador, the country's government says.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir expresses hope that the government would take steps immediately to trace missing BNP leader M Ilias Ali.

The United States has said the government of Bangladesh took 'limited measures' to investigate and prosecute cases of abuse and killing by security forces. The US, in its 2015 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, claimed authorities failed at times to maintain effective control over security forces.

The Supreme Court has upheld a previous HC order that stayed the suspension of Gazipur City Corporation mayor MA Mannan over criminal charges.

Demanding withdrawal of restrictions on Pahela Baishakh celebration programme, rights activist Sultana Kamal says the decision is reflection of “medieval thought”.

Terming the facts claimed by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) about the country’s national income and gross domestic product as “confusing”, BNP alleges that the government is “misleading” people with this information in a bid to hang on to power.

Government promotes four secretaries to the rank of senior secretary.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) urges the government to take steps to bring back the money laundered from Bangladesh although no name of any Bangladeshis is found in Panama Papers.

The government has allocated Tk 1,000 crore to buy jute and clear the dues of the workers of state-run jute mills amid an ongoing strike and agitation in Khulna.

Self-driving cars are more likely to hurt than help public safety because of unsolved technical issues, engineers and safety advocates told the government Friday, countering a push by innovators to speed government approval.

The government requests a visiting European Union delegation to legalise Bangladeshi nationals, who are staying in different European countries after expiry of their valid documents.

A writ petition is filed with High Court seeking its directives upon the government to constitute a judicial committee to launch an enquiry into the killing of Sohagi Jahan Tonu.

The government has decided to cut fuel prices in a month, as oil prices continue to remain low on the international market for nearly two years now.

The High Court yesterday asked the government to explain within three weeks why Nagorik Oikya Convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna, now in jail, should not be granted bail in two cases.

BNP seeks “all-out cooperation” from the government to make the party’s sixth national council a success.

Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith says the outlay of the budget for the coming 2016-2017 fiscal could be as high as Taka 340,000 crore as he joined a government-sponsored pre-budget conference of leading financial watchdogs here.

A Supreme Court lawyer serves a legal notice seeking a halt to biometric registration for subscriber identity module (SIM) cards of mobile operators claiming it violates privacy and has a potential malafide intention.

Civil Aviation Minister Rashed Khan Menon and Health Minister Mohammad Nasim yesterday demanded in parliament that the government form a commission to find out “who did what” to oppress political leaders following the 1/11 changeover in 2007.

A physically challenged man with sound higher education in Lalmonirhat returned all his academic certificates to the government yesterday.