A housewife of a Hindu family has allegedly been raped twice by the same man in the span of just three days in Baniarchang upazila of Habiganj.

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad yesterday said he would resign as the special envoy to the prime minister and his party's three ministers from the cabinet in phases to play the role of a real opposition party.

Welcoming BNP and Jatiya Party defectors to the Awami League, the officer-in-charge of Hatibandha Police Station has said they did the right thing by joining the ruling party.

Dhaka police have arrested 14 out of 26 expatriate Bangladeshis who were recently deported from Singapore for allegedly being members of a jihadi terror cell.

“It is better to cease to exist than to continue like this -- almost dead, with no heartbeat. We were sinking into oblivion, vanishing into thin air.”

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad yesterday tightened his control on the party with GM Quader and Ruhul Amin Howlader taking charge of co-chairman and secretary general.

The investigation agency of the International Crimes Tribunal has formed a special committee to gather information about Pakistani prisoners of war (POWs) who were allegedly involved in war crimes in Bangladesh during the 1971 Liberation War.

The government has been striving to build a developed and enlightened nation within the structure of democracy, eradicating vengeance, bloodshed and political confrontation, President Abdul Hamid yesterday said.

Mayor Annisul Huq wants Rajuk and Wasa under the jurisdiction of the city corporations to get rid of the city's waterlogging problem.

At least 21 people died when gunmen armed with grenades and Kalashnikovs attacked a university in Pakistan yesterday, with all four attackers killed by security forces who moved in under thick fog to halt the bloodshed. The assault was claimed by a Pakistani Taliban faction but branded "un-Islamic" by the umbrella group's leadership, who vowed to hunt down those responsible.

Bangladesh Bank fined Farmers Bank Tk 10 lakh for covering up information, but it could not realise the fine as the private bank obtained a stay order from the High Court against the central bank's order.

Public university teachers will return to classes today as they have decided to suspend their work stoppage observed for seven days over “pay disparity” in the new pay scale.

The government yesterday increased the building cost of the Moghbazar-Mouchak Flyover Project by Tk 446.20 crore and extended the completion deadline by 18 months.

The Bangladesh Bank has made Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir very unhappy and he is not taking it sitting down.

Rifts in the Jatiya Party widen further, as its Chairman HM Ershad yesterday removed party secretary general Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu, who opposed the JP chief's decision to appoint GM Quader as co-chairman.

"His words are not comical, his words are not funny. His words are poisonous."

An assistant sub-inspector of Kafrul Police Station was closed yesterday over allegations that he asked for bribe from an NGO official and threatened him to implicate in a false yaba case.

The cabinet yesterday rejected a proposal to raise the retirement age of freedom fighters in public service to 65 years from the existing 60.

For around 15 years, Bangladesh had to struggle with import of oil because the price continued to climb from just $25 in1998 a barrel to $145 in 2008. The country's oil importing agency Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) counted staggering losses from 1999 till mid 2014.

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) allegedly tortured a Bangladeshi cattle trader to death along Shaljhore border in the district's Bhurungamari upazila early yesterday.