A local Jamaat-e-Islami leader is shot dead during a police drive in Chittagong’s Sitakunda upazila.

The High Court issues a rule upon the government to explain in four weeks as to why it should not be directed to compensate Tk 30 lakh to the family of Nirob, a boy who died after falling in a sewer.

Police find Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh’s link to the killing of Japanese national Kunio Hoshi and five recent incidents of attacks in Rangpur and Dinajpur, the deputy inspector general (DIG) of police (Rangpur range), says.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) detain an alleged member of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in Bhaluka upazila of Mymensingh.

A woman cradling her two-year-old daughter allegedly committed suicide by jumping under a running train near Monu Railway Station in

The High Court yesterday questioned the legality of construction of a kitchen market on a road near Baldha Garden at Wari in the capital.

The High Court grants ad-interim bail to former president of Jatiya Press Club Shawkat Mahmud for six months in two vandalism and arson cases, clearing his way for getting release from jail.

A Dhaka court grants bail to Refayet Ahmed, admin of the popular Facebook page “Moja Losss?” in a case filed against him for running campaigns against the government and the state through the page.

The nation is observing the Martyred Intellectuals Day today paying tributes to the intellectuals killed systematically by the Pakistan occupation army and their local collaborators at the fag-end of the country's Liberation War in 1971.

A man committed suicide after stabbing his wife to death over family feud in Shafipur area in Kaliakoir upazila of the district on Saturday

The High Court yesterday stayed a government order that suspended Md Tamiz Uddin, upazila chairman of Dhamrai in Dhaka, on December 8 for the next six months.

A Supreme Court lawyer yesterday filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking stay on holding the upcoming

Pakistan army's 195 officers are morally and legally culpable for the genocide of 1971 and Bangladesh has the moral and legal rights to try them. Pakistan's excuse of the 1974 agreement does not give it reprieve.

Three days after lifting a 22-day ban on Facebook, the government blocks the social networking sites Twitter, Skype and Imo while WhatsApp and Viber still under the restrictions.

There is nothing wrong in taking money from Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited to organise the 2011 Cricket World Cup, says Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal.

In a latest reshuffle in the civil administration, the government has transferred six secretary-level public servants to new offices.

Ferry services between Daulatdia and Paturia terminals remain suspended for three and a half hours due to thick fog.

Robbers looted cash and gold ornaments from the house of an expatriate in Mohadanga area of the district town early yesterday.

A woman was killed allegedly by her husband over dowry in Jhenidah bus stand area of Chuadanga district town early yesterday.

Members of outlawed Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) were behind the attacks in different places of Dinajpur in the last one month.