A Dhaka tribunal today took cognisance of the 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.

Over 1,152 Rohingyas have left Cox's Bazar refugee camp for Chattogram’s Patenga as they are set to be relocated to Noakhali's Bhasan Char.

A newly-married couple was burned to death as fire broke out at a house in Pirojpur’s Mathbaria upazila early today.

Education ministry has extended the ongoing closure of educational institutions till February 28 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The chief of Bangladesh Army Staff General Aziz Ahmed returned home on Friday morning, wrapping up his official trip to the United States of America.

Rail communication of Sylhet with other parts of the country remained suspended since this afternoon after an oil-carrying train derailed in Kulaura of Moulvibazar.

Police recovered the body of a madrasa student from Chapainawabganj town this morning.

At least five people were injured as supporters of Awami League and BNP mayoral candidates clashed and exploded crude bombs in Rajshahi’s Charghat today, a day before the municipality goes into election.

Shaheen Reza Nur, former executive editor of the daily Ittefaq and elder son of Shaheed journalist Sirajuddin Hossain, died of cancer at the age of 67.

Police arrested a youth on charge of stabbing Hefajat-e-Islam’s central leader Jasim Uddin in Dhaka's Lalbagh area on Tuesday.

A clash occurred between BNP activists and police in front of Jatiya Press Club in Dhaka during BNP’s protest against the decision to revoke the gallantry award given to late president Ziaur Rahman.

Rab claimed to have arrested 96 individuals on charges of taking drugs, engaging in gambling and anti-social activities on a luxury launch on Buriganga River yesterday.

A mobile court has sentenced a Jubo League leader and two of his associates to different terms in jail for their alleged involvement in threatening mayoral candidates in Jibannagar upazila of Chuadanga last night.

Shafiqual Haque Choudhury, founder and president of Association for Social Advancement (ASA), a leading microfinance institution serving millions of borrowers across the country, has been laid to rest at Mirpur Martyred Intellectual Graveyard this afternoon.

A Dhaka court today granted ad interim bail to Ron Haque Sikder, managing director (MD) of Sikder Group, after he was produced before the court in connection with an attempted murder case.

Sukumar Mridha, a close associate of PK Halder, has told a magistrate that more than a hundred influential people, including two former high officials of as many banks helped PK Halder in running the scam.

A bus-helper was hacked to death inside the bus in Khulna city last night.

A policeman was killed in a road accident in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila today.

A shipbreaking yard worker died today, five days after he suffered burn injuries in a fire at a ship in Chattogram’s Sitakunda on February 6.

A woman was detained by police -- from Dhaka’s Wari area this morning -- for allegedly stabbing a man to death and dismembering the body.