Over 1000 blankets have been distributed among ultra poor people at remote villages in the district. Superintendent of Police TM

Dhaka South City Corporation evicts hundreds of illegal makeshift shops in Gulistan area of Dhaka.

The first phase of the three-day Biswa Ijtema, the second largest congregation of Muslims after Hajj, begins on the bank of the Turag river at Tongi in Gazipur.

Bangladeshi diplomat Maushumi Rahman is now on her way to Lisbon from Pakistan to take up her new assignment in the country's Portugal mission.

Stressing the importance of diversifying the country’s export basket with various agro-products, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says Bangladesh could exploit the opportunity of exporting organic foods as those have huge demand in the global market.

The 36th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) preliminary examination will be held tomorrow. Aspirants have been asked not to carry watches, along with any other electronic devices, in the test venues set up through Dhaka, Chittagong, Rajshahi, Barisal, Khulna, Sylhet and Rangpur.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina might be visiting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia soon – sometime between March and May.

The information ministry urges the state-run media outlets to highlight Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's "eight innovative initiatives" mainly aimed to fight poverty and ensure a better life for under privileged people.

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam says Pakistan has failed to give any reasons for asking Bangladesh to withdraw its diplomat from Islamabad.

The cabinet yesterday gave its final approval to the draft of “The Jute Law, 2015” modifying the existing “Jute Ordinance” of 1962 and including a maximum three-year imprisonment or one lakh taka fine or both for violators.

The Jatiya Sangsad goes into the ninth session on January 20.

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) handed over 29 Bangladeshi nationals to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) through Benapole border on

The Federation of Bangladesh University Teachers' Association (FBUTA) threatens to observe indefinite work abstention at all public universities on January 11 if the government does not deliver on its pledges of removing "discriminations" in the 8th national pay scale.

The Tripura government says that the Bangladesh government is keen to see the resolution of Teesta river water-sharing issue with India.

Bangladesh High Commissioner to Pakistan Suhrab Hossain has been asked to return home though his contractual

International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday granted prosecutors time and fixed March 14 for submission of formal

Municipal polls in frames

The government is going to implement the phase II of its village court project as an effective local dispute resolution

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a drive demolished 5,000 to 6,000 illegal establishments on Turag riverbank under Uttara and Turag police stations in the capital yesterday, claimed DMP.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines had a good year, turning a profit of Tk 275 crore in the first nine months of 2015.