Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) yesterday arrested the chairman of Crescent Leather Products and Crescent Tanneries, MA Kader, in connection with three separate cases filed over laundering a total of Tk 919 crore in foreign currencies.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday assured the opposition that it will be allowed to criticise the government without any obstacles in the 11th Jatiya Sangsad.

Rajshahi Kings kept their hopes alive for a playoff spot by registering a five-wicket win over Sylhet Sixers in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram yesterday.

Dhaka University's decision to set up polling centres for the March 11 Ducsu election inside its 18 dormitories has sparked mixed reactions among different student bodies.

The BNP yesterday alleged that the current parliament has not been formed with people's mandate and demanded re-election under a neutral administration.

Calling upon all to forge national unity on the basic issues, President Abdul Hamid yesterday said peace and prosperity could not be given a permanent shape without it.

The Awami League and its Grand Alliance partners contested the December 30 election together, but the allies of the ruling party would sit on the opposition bench in the 11th parliament which begins its journey today.

All 80 police officials holding commanding posts in divisions, districts and metropolitan areas, along with their 269 colleagues, are getting prestigious police medals this year.

Unlike the first six matches of the Chattogram leg of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), the two games played yesterday at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium were low-scoring ones.

The #ThoughtsandPrayers agency in heaven went into delirium on Saturday when famed anti-drug activist Baby Boudee held a milad-e-mehfil, requesting divine intervention to rid the country of the scourge of drugs.

A man, who allegedly raped a madrasa student inside a car on Sunday, was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Chattogram's Mariner's Road area early yesterday.

Bangladesh has gone down six notches in the Transparency International's global Corruption Perceptions Index 2018 for a lack of effective government measures to fight corruption. In South Asia, Bangladesh ranked the second lowest, only ahead of war-torn Afghanistan.

Illiterate drivers, faulty vehicles, weak traffic management system, carelessness of commuters, lack of political will and poor enforcement of laws continue to take a heavy toll on people, a road safety organisation said yesterday.

Corruption threatens the foundation of democracy, social justice and rule of law, High Court has observed in its full verdict in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.

Two siblings were killed after a truck rear-ended the motorcycle they were in South Keraniganj on the Dhaka-Mawa highway, while at least eight others died in different accidents in three districts.

A nine-year-old madrasa student on Sunday was raped by her teacher in Savar's Ashulia area while another girl, aged about 14, was raped by a boy of her age in Madaripur's Shibchar upazila on the same day.

The captain of the US-Bangla plane “seemed to have an emotional breakdown” before the crash in Kathmandu airport last March, Nepali investigators said in the final report published yesterday.

It was an action-filled day at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram yesterday. The first Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) game, which Comilla Victorians won against Khulna Titans by 80 runs, saw an unbeaten century in the from Comilla's Evin Lewis and a hattrick from pacer Wahab Riaz.

A local Jubo League leader was shot in his left leg on the roof of his neighbour's house in the town's Sasthitolapara area early yesterday.

One would be mesmerised by the duplex mansions by the 13km road between Teknaf Zero Point and Shah Porir Island. Most of the mansions are in the middle of farmland, forest or just beside the road.