The Anti Corruption Commission yesterday arrested eight people in the country in various graft cases.

Taleya Rehman, wife of journalist Shafik Rehman, said the allegation brought against her husband is totally baseless and fictitious.

High Court directs the principal of Udayan Higher Secondary School in Dhaka to probe allegation of torture on a class VIII student by a teacher.

Sylhet customs officials find a Lexus luxury car abandoned outside their office. The car carries a letter, apparently from the owner who chose to remain anonymous, that says the vehicle has been surrendered to the tax collectors out of respect for the law.

A mobile court of the Chittagong district administration yesterday sentenced two people to different jail terms for different irregularities

Around 74.8 percent of tobacco products are being marketed without any pictorial health warnings, violating law, according to a study.

Khairuzzaman Kamal, senior reporter of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS), and Alamgir Hossain, senior reporter of Daily Alokito

Accusing them of failing to hold fair elections, a civil society organisation yesterday demanded that the Election Commission (EC) chief and its other commissioners should quit.

Gazipur City Corporation's Mayor MA Mannan was suspended again yesterday, five days after the Supreme Court upheld the High Court order that stayed his earlier suspension in an arson case.

A sub-inspector of Detective Branch of police was shot by miscreants during a drive to nab criminals in Tantibazar of Dhaka yesterday.

The first ever online master's programme on sexual and reproductive health was launched for the midwives in Bangladesh.

A trader was found dead in a hotel in the capital's Farmgate yesterday.

The Anti Corruption Commission yesterday arrested 13 persons across the country in 10 separate cases filed between 2014 and 2016 for misappropriating over Tk 9.5 crore.

Though experts think, cargo vessels plying through the Sundarbans' rivers are like “mobile bombs” for the tigers, the vessel owners are putting pressure on the government, demanding to reopen the Shela river route for cargo operations.

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) arrested an iron rod trader at Agrabad in Chittagong city yesterday afternoon in a case filed

The public administration ministry has launched a website to help government officials and employees spell Bangla words correctly as

Syed Kamal Uddin Ahmed, an advocate, died of cencer, in Sylhet Nurjahan Clinic in the city yesterday morning. He was 70.

Five people, including a nine-year-old boy, were killed and another was injured in road accidents in five districts yesterday.

Rapid Action Battalion claimed to have rescued an abducted man and arrested five abductors in a raid at an under-construction building in the capital's Mahakhali Niketan area on Monday.

Police re-arrested Hefajat-e Islam central leader Harun Bin Izhar in front of the Chittagong central jail gate yesterday immediately after his release on bail in four violence cases.