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.

Eying to minimise income disparity of the citizens, about 1.29 crore new jobs would be created over the period of the new five-year plan, although 99 lakh people are expected to join the workforce during the period.

The cabinet yesterday cleared the drafts of six laws that will hike the remunerations and privileges of the president, prime minister, Speaker, chief justice, ministers, deputy speaker, Supreme Court judges, state ministers, deputy ministers and parliament members.

The four employees of an NGO, arrested in a case filed under the Human Trafficking Act over a month ago, were granted bail by a Dhaka court yesterday as a police probe found no proof of their involvement.

Thirty-two percent of the people who die on the roads of Bangladesh every year are pedestrians, says a global report on road safety, exposing how deadly the roads are for pedestrians. The pedestrian mortality rate is 10 percent higher than the global average, according to the Global Status Report on Road Safety 2015 released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Geneva yesterday.

A Village Defence Party (VDP) member was killed when a patrol team of joint forces locked in a clash with a terrorist group and exchanged fire in Seprupara area in the deep forest of Roma in Bandarban yesterday.

Hundreds of people in Dhaka suffered immensely as transport workers suspended bus operations for hours protesting the sentencing of a bus helper to one-month imprisonment and the alleged beating up of a bus driver.

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police boss yesterday claimed to have unearthed the conspiracy and blueprint for the murder of Italian aid worker Cesare Tavella.

Brac has gone beyond the national boundary to take the benefits of its programmes and innovations in farm sector to other countries of the world.

The country's fish production has almost doubled in just over a decade as fish farming becomes even more popular. According to data from the Department of Fisheries, farmed fish production was 2 million tonnes in 2013-14 fiscal year. This was only 0.8 million tonnes in 2001-02.

The government is mulling over ways to deal with the issue of marriage of girls aged below 18 and above 16 in special cases such as elopement and unwanted pregnancy, State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroze Chumki said yesterday. The minimum age of marriage for girls will remain 18 in the upcoming Child Marriage Restraint Act, and the government will not enact any law that will have negative impact on the lives of women, she said.

Enforcement of traffic laws, improvement of roads, and stopping the irregularities in issuing driving licenses and fitness certificates

Chittagong detectives have detained a suspected organiser of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) over the

Amid concerns following the killing of an Italian aid worker and a Japanese citizen, the US Embassy in Dhaka yesterday updated its

“BNP leaders are deeply frustrated. And one of the reasons for their frustration is that their leader Khaleda Zia has fled abroad fearing legal actions.”

The Appellate Division has been facing a shortage of judges as five out of 11 have retired since 2013 but no new appointment has yet

Ramkhana is a union in the remote northern district of Kurigram.

A Sylhet court yesterday sent prime accused Kamrul Islam to jail in connection with the case filed for killing 13-year-

In another development towards road connectivity between Bangladesh and India, Tripura bus operators yesterday