A Bangladeshi woman whose husband died dismantling an oil tanker in a local shipyard was given the green light this week to keep pursuing a claim for compensation from a UK company linked to the vessel in a test case for the shipbreaking industry.

Police have rescued a teenage girl today seven days after her abduction from Sharsha upazila of Jashore.

A Dhaka-bound passenger bus caught fire on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Gazaria upazila of Munshiganj, leaving five injured on board.

A tourist died after being trampled by an elephant in Rangamati’s Kaptai area.

United States, the richest and most powerful country has staggering levels of child poverty, which is one of its great moral stains; on Wednesday, it decided to scrub the stain with the final legislative approval of US President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, says a New York Times opinion piece written by columnist Nicholas Kristof.

Jatiya Party Chairman and deputy leader of the opposition GM Quader today said that Bangladesh cannot be called a democratic state due to "autocracy" and lack of good governance.

A Khulna court sentenced two accused to death today for killing a teacher of Shahid Abul Kashem Degree College in 2017.

A ten-year-old girl was admitted to Khoksha Upazila Health Complex in Kushtia last night with wound marks all over her body. She returned from Dhaka after nine months, where she worked as a domestic help.

Mahmud Us Samad Chowdhury, lawmaker from Sylhet-3 constituency, died with coronavirus infection at the United Hospital in Dhaka this afternoon.

A 12-year-old who along with five other family members sustained burn injury in a gas leak explosion in Narayanganj city early Tuesday, has died today.

Inspector Abdul Malek Talukder has been closed after a probe committee found that a young man was tortured at Barishal Divisional Narcotics Control Office five months ago.

A Dhaka court today again asked Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) to submit -- by April 21 -- the probe report of a case filed over the murders of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi.

The High Court today wanted to know what legal action has been taken against madrasa teacher Maulana Yahya, who was seen mercilessly beating one of his students in a recent video that went viral on social media.

Forest Department of Cox’s Bazar rescued an elephant calf -- believed to have been lost from the herd -- from Shapalur area of Teknaf upazila, and handed her over to the local safari park yesterday.

A Dhaka tribunal today framed charges against Abdul Malek, a driver of the Directorate General of Health Service (DGHS), in a case filed over possessing an illegal firearm and ammunition in September last year.

Voting in the annual election to the 14-member executive committee of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) rolled into second day today.

A fugitive accused in the murder case of Narayanganj student Tanwir Muhammad Taqi was sent to jail after he surrendered before a court today.

The government is thinking of hiring influential US TV channel CNN International Commercial (CNNIC) to promote Bangladesh globally.

The government has chalked out a 10-day long programme at the National Parade Square to mark the birth centenary of Bangabandhu and the golden jubilee of independence, which will be attended by heads of states and governments of different countries.

A college teacher from Pabna, who was arrested in Kushtia in a case filed under the Digital Security Act, was denied bail by a court today.