Hindu devotees were both happy and sad at the same time yesterday -- the mother Goddess had been with them for the last few days and now she was set to leave the world for another year.

“It is very wrong of certain embassies to issue such directives, very wrong of them.”

An assistant sub-inspector of police was stabbed to death by a youth last night at a checkpoint at the capital's Gabtoli when a police team was searching the young man's bag.

A law enforcement agency yesterday said it has photos of three suspects in the killing of Italian national Cesare Tavella.

Hindu devotees yesterday celebrated Kumari Puja, a major attraction of Maha Ashtami, amid fanfare at Ramkrishna Mission's puja mandaps across the country.

Bangladesh’s garment exports would more than double if the country could capture 20 percent of China’s share in a year, as China has been shifting its manufacturing base to other sectors, according to a World Bank study.

The four youths, freed on Monday after serving 38 days in jail on charges that could not be proved, are not suffering from low morale.

The government has approved 24 more economic zones, including two separate special zones for Japan and India.

Envoys of four countries yesterday said there is still some concern despite the government's beefing-up of security.

Will the partisan elections to the local government bodies open a window for “nomination business” by the major political parties? Is it going to tighten the parties' grips over their grassroots level leaders?

As the municipality polls in December would be partisan unlike the previous ones, aspirants seeking Awami League tickets are now busy with organisational activities instead of launching individual campaigns.

The High Court yesterday asked the police authorities to explain in two weeks why they should not be ordered to take legal actions against Fareez Rahman, an underage driver who hit two rickshaws with a SUV in Gulshan, injuring four people.

Over a week after withdrawing him from the controller's post at the office of the Chief Controller of Imports and Exports, the commerce ministry on Monday suspended Md Shahidul Haque who has recently been filmed taking bribes from service seekers.

A Dhaka court yesterday handed BNP leader and former city mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka a 13-year jail term for amassing illegal wealth and concealing information in his wealth statement.

The trial run of biometric SIM registration system will be inaugurated today.

French company Thales Alenia Space has been given the job of launching Bangladesh's first satellite as part of the government's efforts to narrow the digital divide and create new opportunities.

“This [traffic congestion] will not be solved until a single institution is empowered to deal with the issue.”

“Cheating the consumers will not be tolerated in any circumstances.”

The government yesterday rejected 19,700 tonnes of wheat imported from France for having too much of damaged kernels, and asked the supplier to take back the grains worth Tk 40 crore.

Condemned war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury has filed a petition with the Supreme Court, urging it to record statements of eight persons, including five Pakistanis, during the hearing of his review petition.