Twenty-one turtles were recovered from a fish shop in Patuakhali’s Kalapara upazila town last night

A Dhaka court today sentenced 15 leaders and activists of BNP and its front organisations to six months' imprisonment in a case filed over the 2013 political violence in Dhaka

The Supreme Court chamber judge today upheld a High Court order that on Monday directed the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court in Dhaka to accept, hear and dispose the bail petitions of BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in nine cases

In separate incidents, two Rohingya men were shot dead early today in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

For months, a young Bangladeshi national has been taking in huge profits by operating a fake work permit renewal syndicate in Malaysia that targeted foreign workers

Police arrested a BNP leader for his alleged involvement in a sabotage of a rail line in Birampur upazila of Dinajpur yesterday

An intercity train averted an accident after miscreants removed fishplates and sleepers from a part of rail tracks in Birampur upazila of Dinajpur on Tuesday night.

At least eight people were injured and two campaign offices were vandalised in pre-polls violence in three districts since Tuesday night.

A woman has suffered burns after her ex-husband allegedly threw acid on her in Lalpur upazila of Natore.

The demand for locally-made firearms has risen in Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar ahead of the upcoming national election slated for January 7 next year, according to the law enforcers.

A local BNP leader, jailed for political violence, died yesterday while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Noagaon.

A local influential man has been indiscriminately lifting sand from the Harihar river in Jashore’s Manirampur upazila, posing erosion threat to many riverside villages.

Two Bangladeshi families received around Tk 30 crore in compensation, years after their loved ones were murdered in Saudi Arabia. The money was paid by the families of the accused, as per the order of Dammam and Jeddah courts.

Three including two sub-inspectors of Shah Ali Police Station were arrested on Tuesday for abducting a trader and robbing him of over  Tk 9 lakh.

Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate officials detained a woman along with 8.2kg gold at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Tuesday night.

Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan yesterday hoped that the culprits, who set fire to Mohanganj Express train in Dhaka on Tuesday, must be identified through a proper probe and be put on trial for punishment.

Moments before the fire was spotted in the coupling between the Ja and Jha carriages of Mohanganj Express on Tuesday morning, two youths were seen acting suspiciously.

Police recovered the body of a six-year-old girl who was killed after rape in Gazipur's Tongi today.

Unidentified arsonists set fire to a bus in Dhaka's Tejgaon area tonight

A woman has suffered burns after her ex-husband allegedly threw acid on her in Lalpur upazila of Natore