BNP's rally has begun at Shaheed Moharaj Chattar in Khulna city this morning.

The 24-hour ban on the movement of buses in Khulna district ahead of a BNP rally is causing commuters a great deal of suffering.

Police filed cases against seven people who were picked up from the torch procession brought out in Dhaka’s Shahbagh yesterday -- protesting the death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed in custody.

US State Department has called on Bangladesh to conduct a transparent investigation into the death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed and uphold the right of freedom of expression.

A ward level Jubo League leader was shot and injured in Dhaka’s Manikdi area last night.

Two leaders of a leftist organisation were picked up last night, allegedly by police, from the mess they were staying at in Khulna after they posted on social media calling for a symbolic "coffin rally" towards Dhaka protesting the death of writer Mushtaq in custody.

Awami League-backed Sammilito Ainjibi Samonnay Parishad won 15 posts, including president, while BNP-backed Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Ainjibi Oikkya Panel got eight posts, including general secretary, of Dhaka Bar Association for the year 2021-2022.

Gazipur district administration has formed a two-member committee over the death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed, who was arrested under the Digital Security Act and died in Kashimpur High Security Jail-3 in Gazipur on Thursday.

A case has been filed against local Awami League leader Abul Kalam Azad, also former lawmaker of Gaibandha-4 constituency, and more than 200 of his followers for vandalising the Gobindaganj upazila AL office in Gaibandha on February 20.

BNP today said police foiled a torch procession brought out by a group of their leaders and activists in Dhaka’s Banani area this evening protesting the death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed in custody.

As Rab members were taking away writer Mushtaq Ahmed from his Lalmatia residence nine months ago, they assured the family that he would return home after a short while.

The Supreme Court today upheld a High Court verdict that sentenced two convicts to life imprisonment for killing Khulna's 13-year-old Rakib Hawlader in August, 2015.

Police clashed with people protesting the death in custody of writer Mushtaq Ahmed in the capital’s Shahbagh this evening, with both sides saying multiple members sustained injuries.

The High Court has issued a status quo for three months on encroachment, land grabbing, earth filling and operating brick kilns on Bhadra and Hori rivers in Khulna’s Dumuria upazila.

India’s coast guard found 81 survivors and eight dead on a boat crammed with Muslim Rohingya refugees adrift in the Andaman Sea, and were repairing the vessel so that it can return safely to Bangladesh, Indian officials said on Friday.

An inquiry committee will be formed to look into the death of Mushtaq Ahmed in police custody if thought necessary, the home minister said today.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has requested the UN to provide humanitarian assistance for the Rohingyas in Bhasan Char, where a housing facility has been developed for one lakh Rohingyas.

Four people were killed today when a bus heading to Bogura from Dhaka hit a CNG-run autorickshaw from behind the Majhira check-post area in ​​Shajahanpur upazila.

Brad Adams, Asia Director of Human Rights Watch, today released a statement regarding the devastating death of Mushtaq Ahmed where he said the writer should not have been detained in the first place.

Bangladesh has begun administering coronavirus vaccines to sex workers from the country's largest brothel, a vast warren of shacks home to around 1,900 prostitutes.