Tarana Halim, state minister for post and telecommunication, has been threatened over a telephone call for her stance on banning illegal voice over internet protocol (VoIP) and Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) businesses.

Police yesterday again arrested acting Nayebe Ameer of Chittagong city unit of Jamaat-e-Islami Ahsanullah Chowdhury from Chittagong

Two activists of Jamaat-e-Islami were arrested in Rangpur city yesterday in connection with cases filed over subversive activities.

A court here yesterday sentenced three youths to life term imprisonment for killing a woman in Araihazar upazila of the district in 2008.

Over a hundred trees beside different roads, especially Durakuti- Chaparhat road, have been felled ‘illegally’ in Chalbala union under

The Jamuna has receded further, causing slight improvement in the flood situations in Bogra and Jamalpur districts.

The government alters its decision on re-registration of mobile phone connection that was scheduled to start on Sunday following a couple of meetings with the Election Commission (EC) and mobile operators.

A mobile court yesterday fined eight pharmacies and a medicine depot Tk 59,000 in Chittagong city on different charges, including selling of date expired

A Sylhet court yesterday placed an accused in the blogger Ananta Bijoy Das murder case on a seven-day remand.

The Supreme Court yesterday started hearing on the appeal filed by Motiur Rahman Nizami challenging a verdict that sentenced him to death and life imprisonment for his crimes against humanity in the Liberation War.

Expressing her firm resolve to hold the trial of war criminals and culprits of August 15 massacre, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the trial is going on and it will continue come what may.

Bangladesh reach 10th position in the list of high suicide-prone countries, as it witnessed nearly eight incidents of suicides among every 100,000 people.

Students of Michael Madhusudan College (MM College) vandalised houses of two local Jubo League leaders following a conflict over

A Chittagong court yesterday sentenced two people to life term imprisonment in a case filed for raping a woman.

Bangladesh Bank's refusal to approve Mirza Abbas' reappointment as a director of Dhaka Bank Limited was “completely” the result of

The High Court questions legality of imposing 7.5 percent value-added tax (VAT) on tuition fees of private universities.

A man allegedly kills his wife and two-year-old daughter for dowry in Kaliganj upazila of Satkhira.

Dhaka tribunal accepts war crimes charges against nine including former Jamaat lawmaker Shakhawat Hossain while clearing three accused of the charges.

At least 20 people were injured in a clash between two rival groups at Gourdah village in Mirpur upazila of the district yesterday.

Police arrested two former lawmakers of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and 11 other leaders and activists of the party at a flat in Mirpur yesterday afternoon in possession of 20 homemade bombs.