Three people were killed in an hours-long siege by Al-Shabaab jihadists at a popular hotel near the presidential palace in the Somali capital Mogadishu, police said yesterday.

The teacher at Shaheed M Monsur Ali Medical College in Sirajganj who shot and injured a student during a viva on March 4 was sent to jail this afternoon after his remand ended

A man was shot dead during a clash between two groups of ruling party men in Cumilla this afternoon

Lalmonirhat Sadar Upazila Assistant Commissioner (land) Abdullah-Al-Noman Sarkar, who allegedly, along with his staffers, confined five journalists and threatened them with jailing, has been transferred from the district

The hostages on board the hijacked Bangladesh-flagged ship were taken to their cabins from the bridge after the pirates anchored the vessel as dawn broke over the Somali port of Garacad.

Five journalists were confined to the office of an assistant commissioner (land) in Lalmonirhat by some government employees for about 40 minutes yesterday following a feud over recording video inside the office.

Six journalists came under attack while they were covering an incident in Rangamatia village in Pabna's Shanthia upazila today

Seven accused, who are journalists of Barguna, were sent to jail today in connection with a case filed over murder of another journalist Talukdar Masood in Barguna

Hijacked ship’s crew member tells his mother over phone

A Dhaka court today sent pro-BNP lawyer and secretary candidate Ruhul Quddus Kazal to jail in connection with a case filed over March 8 violence centring the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) election

The High Court will deliver its verdict on March 18 on a rule that questioned legality of the Labour Appellate Tribunal’s order which stayed conviction and sentences of Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus and three other top officials of Grameen Telecom in a labour law violation case

Rapid Action Battalion members today arrested four members of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa) including its top commander in Ukhiya of Cox's Bazar

Six members of Detective Branch (DB) (North-South) of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) were temporarily suspended last night in connection with looting cryptocurrency worth Tk 3.1 crore from a freelancer in DB custody on February 26

The driver of Chattogram-bound Bijoy Express was injured after being hit by a stone thrown by unidentified miscreants at the moving train near Ishwarganj Railway Station in Mymensingh last night

The pirates who hijacked a Bangladeshi-flagged cargo ship in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday are yet to make any contact with the government, Rear Admiral (Retd) Khurshed Alam, secretary of Maritime Affairs Unit, said today

The hijacked Bangladeshi-flagged cargo ship has anchored 20 miles off the Somalian port of Garacad, Bangladesh Merchant Marine Officers' Association (BMMOA) said this afternoon

The hijacked Bangladeshi-flagged cargo ship was around 72 nautical miles off the Somalian port of Garacad at 6:00am today, and it is moving towards the coast

Neither the government nor the firm that owns the Bangladesh-flagged ship hijacked with 23 crew members has been able to contact the hostages or pirates as of last night.

Border Guard Bangladesh members recovered the body of an alleged smuggler from the Ichamati river along the Agrabhulot border in Jashore’s Sharsha upazila yesterday.

Bangladesh Merchant Marine Officers' Association received an image of the ship's latest position