This is what 19-year-old Rabiul Islam kept asking his mother Yeasmin Akter whenever she went to see him at the HDU unit of Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery

Bill passed in JS scrapping earlier proposal

A virtual court in Dhaka today placed a Bangladesh-origin US citizen, who posed as an adviser to US President Joe Biden during a press briefing at the BNP office, on a five-day remand in a case filed with Paltan Model Police Station

A Dhaka court today sent Helena Jahangir, a businessperson-turned-politician, to jail after dismissing his bail petition in a fraud case

Detective Branch (DB) of police today claimed to have arrested Aminul Haque, member secretary of BNP unit of Dhaka North and Sazzadul Miraz, member secretary of Jubo Dal unit of Dhaka North, on charges of sabotage

BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas was shown arrested today in a graft case filed against him in 2007

Miscreants torched a bus and vandalised two others in Rangunia upazila of Chattogram early today on the third day of the countrywide blockade enforced by BNP and Jamaat

A bus was set on fire in Dhaka's Uttara area this morning

Inspector General of Police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun yesterday said legal action would be taken against those involved in violent incidents centring Saturday’s BNP rally and its aftermath.

Encroachers have destroyed 95 acres of the Gohira mangrove forest in Chattogram’s Anwara upazila and turned the area into fish enclosures.

Courts in Dhaka yesterday granted a five-day remand each for BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas and joint secretary general Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal, and an eight-day remand for Lt Gen (retired) Chowdhury Hasan Sarwardi in separate cases.

Amid worker protests in and around the capital for pay hikes, factory owners yesterday said they will come to a middle ground with labour rights representatives while deciding the minimum wage.

The bullet-hit body of a Bangladeshi national was found dead inside Indian territory along the Banglabandha border in Panchagarh’s Tentulia upazila yesterday morning.

Police yesterday arrested seven young men for brandishing weapons in Rajshahi’s Bongram Gangpara area on October 27.

The government has suspended Dinajpur Municipality Mayor Syed Jahangir Alam after he was sentenced to one month’s jail on October 12, following a contempt of court petition

A Dhaka court today placed BNP’s Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas on a five-day remand in a case involving an act of sabotage and attempts to snatch away pistols from the law enforcers during clashes on October 28 in Dhaka

A BNP leader died yesterday after he was injured by a tear gas shell fired by police to disperse party activists in Kishoreganj's Bhairab upazila amid the party's three-day countrywide blockade programme

Garment factories in the capital's Mirpur-1 were vandalised allegedly by a section of RMG workers who have been demonstrating for a hike in wages

A bus and a truck were torched in Chattogram's Karnaphuli and Rangunia areas today, the second day of the three-day countrywide blockade imposed by BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami

A case was filed on Monday night against Rajshahi University's deputy chief physician on charges of sexually harassing a girl in Talaimari area