The government yesterday sought the Supreme Court's stay on the High Court orders that directed Gaibandha lawmaker Manzurul Islam

A schoolgirl was stabbed to death allegedly by a stalker in front of her school at Boardghar in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur yesterday.

Accusing BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia again of conspiring to tarnish the country's image through killing of foreign nationals, the prime

Japanese national Kunio Hoshi who was shot dead in Rangpur on October 3 was buried at a graveyard in Rangpur early yesterday.

Investigators claim they are on the verge of identifying the killers of Italian aid worker Cesare Tavella, as they have identified the man

Most school teachers and imams are not following the government instructions to make people aware of the scourge of militancy.

President Abdul Hamid and Chief Justice SK Sinha, in their recent comments, have really spoken for the people while talking about the abnormal rise of businessmen in politics.

An internal probe has detected at least 170 official passports that the Department of Immigration and Passport (DIP) issued against fake no-objection certificates. A three-member investigation committee found brokers, travel agents and human traffickers in league with a section of officials were involved in what appears to be the biggest ever passport forgery in the country.

Twenty-four years back, the country switched over to parliamentary democracy from the presidential form of government. Yet, the local government bodies still function like in the presidential form of government.

“War time rape victims cannot be viewed as a mere woman who lost her chastity. In fact they fought by laying their highest self-worth, for the cause of our independence. Time has come to unlock our collective voice to recognise and honour our great mothers and sisters, the war heroines.”

The tweets claiming the responsibility of killing two foreigners and the bloggers were uploaded from Bangladesh, said an official of Information and Communication Technology ministry.

Four suspected militants, arrested in the capital's Jatrabari on January 18, had been involved in a conspiracy to topple the democratic government through subversive activities and establish a Khilafat State, read the charge sheet submitted against them.

The way Gaibandha MP Manzurul Islam Liton allegedly shot a minor boy early this month can only be seen in movies and there is no scope to grant him bail, the High Court said yesterday.

President Abdul Hamid yesterday lamented that the country's politics has gone in the pockets of businessmen.

At least a dozen countries have sought additional security from the Bangladesh government for their diplomats and citizens.

The cabinet yesterday approved proposals for amending the local government laws to empower the government to appoint administrators for running municipalities, and upazila and union parishads if elections to the local bodies are not held on time.

A Japanese team has sought cooperation from the Rangpur district administration in the investigation into the Kunio murder case.

The newborn, rescued by a stray dog last month, has found a new home.

“Everybody is waiting … when the Awami League government would quit.”

Three militant suspects, who were among those arrested in the last one year for alleged IS links, had plans to recruit jihadi fighters and go to Turkey disguised as Tabligh Jamaat members en route to Syria, reads a charge sheet.