This is the tale of a strange legal battle over something that has no existence for decades.

The cost of digging a new canal in Chittagong city has quadrupled in three years due to delay in getting the funds in full for the project deemed critical for alleviating the city's waterlogging problem.

Yesterday's Supreme Court hearing on the two appeals against Khaleda Zia's HC bail order in a corruption case witnessed commotion from a section of lawyers.

An Awami League leader of Savar upazila has played tricks on a High Court bench to get the Gazipur City Corporation polls stayed for three months.

The school has a teacher-student ratio way above the country's average; in fact, much above the international average as well. With five teachers for 114 students or 22 students for every teacher, the students should have been well groomed.

Bangladesh has ruled out a serious allegation brought by Pakistan that Dhaka Declaration of the 45th OIC Council of Foreign Ministers was issued without any discussion with participating states.

The Supreme Court will today hear two government petitions filed against the High Court bail order of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a corruption case.

Police recovered throat-slit bodies of four men from a paddy field near Duboier Beel area in the district's Shibganj upazila yesterday.

Although the body of the man who died in DB custody on Sunday bore numerous bruises, including blood clots on his body, mysteriously enough the police inquest report prepared on the victim yesterday found nothing.

The election fever that gripped the Gazipur city is gone.

Some previous verdicts of the Supreme Court about disputes over elections now offer the Election Commission strong legal grounds to have the stay orders on Gazipur and Dhaka north city mayoral polls vacated.

When farmers in Chalan Beel area mould their dreams of Boro harvest, they keep in mind the risks of natural calamities and the need to sow early for reaping the crops before monsoon floods.

The government is going to start constructing the Padma Bridge rail link in a month and 23 kilometres of the 215km rail lines would be elevated.

The Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation member states have sought strong international support to resolve the Rohingya crisis and full implementation of the Kofi Annan led advisory commission recommendations in Myanmar's Rakhine State.

Just 10 days before the voting day, the High Court yesterday stayed the Gazipur City Corporation election for three months with the Election Commission entirely in the dark about the development.

The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) results suffered a fall in success rate for the second consecutive year owing to the students' poor performance in English and Mathematics.

A man, who was detained by detectives in connection with a kidnap on Saturday, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday.

Ambassador Joanna Wronecka of Poland, this month's UN Security Council president, has said that the United Nations has to act when Rohingya refugees are suffering.

The Aztecs knew a thing or two about chia. The herb from the mint family, native to southern Mexico and Guatemala, was given as

Opening of three new bridges on the Shitalakkhya, Meghna and Gumti rivers will reduce bottlenecks on Dhaka-Chittagong highway early next year.