A portion of the one-kilometer-long railway Fuleshwari canal has been illegally grabbed at Dalpatti Bazar area in Lalmonirhat town.

The students of Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (Ruet) besiege the vice-chancellor’s (VC) office demanding the restoration of what they call the “credit system”.

The High Court issued a contempt rule against 10 tannery owners over charges of creating bars to implement a previous judgment regarding salvation of Buriganga river.

Newly appointed overseas employment Minister Nurul Islam urges countrymen not to deal with brokers for employment in Malaysia.

Suspended Savar municipality mayor Alhaj Md Refatullah, also president of Bangladesh Nationalists Party (BNP)'s Savar municipality unit,

Dhaka Power Distribution Company Ltd (DPDC) yesterday fined two plastic factories a total of Tk 23 lakh in the city's Kamrangirchar for pilferage of electricity.

A Gazipur court yesterday sentenced a man to life term imprisonment and also fined him Tk 20,000 for raping a class III student in 2013.

The International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday fixed August 30 to pass an order in contempt of court proceedings it initiated against Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Zafrullah Chowdhury.

Amid all the bleak stories covering newspapers nowadays, the nation gets something to celebrate -- the Dhaka Drug Court fixed August 13 for passing its judgment on adulteration of drugs by six manufacturers of BCIB.

A mobile court yesterday penalised the owners of two unauthorised homeopathic medicine shops in the capital's Jatrabari for producing drugs in unhygienic conditions and using harmful ingredients.

Stagnant water caused damage to aman seedbeds on about 14,000 hectares of land in coastal districts Patuakhali and Barguna amid heavy rainfall and tidal surges this season, said sources of the Department of Agriculture extension (DAE).

A Sylhet tribunal yesterday deferred until August 18 the charge framing in the former Finance Minister SAMS Kibria murder case.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will visit London this week for “medical purposes” where her elder son Tarique Rahman has been staying since 2008.

DB takes over charge of blogger Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy’s murder probe from police, three days after the killing.

A Khulna court placed Sharif and Mintu, the two prime accused in Rakib killing case, on a five-day remand.

A schoolgirl was raped in Tangon Barrage area under Sadar upazila of the district on Friday. Police and locals said the 14-year-old fell in

A schoolboy was electrocuted at Ektarpur village in Abhaynagar upazila of Jessore district on Saturday. The deceased is Musa Shikder, 10,

A six-member bench of the Supreme Court's Appellate Division will hold hearing today on the contempt of court rule against

A Magura court yesterday remanded Bangladesh Chhatra League leader Sen Suman for seven days over the shooting of a pregnant

BNP chief Khaleda Zia will not appear before the special court at Bakshi Bazar tomorrow for hearing of Zia graft cases.