A section of pro-BNP lawyers demonstrated on the Supreme Court Bar Association premises yesterday afternoon protesting submission of charge sheets against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in an arson case.

The High Court yesterday adjourned for six more days the hearing on the seven-year-old petitions filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia challenging the legality of Niko, Gatco and Barapukuria coalmine corruption cases.

Rampura police yesterday pressed charges against 37 BNP leaders and activists, including Mirza Abbas, Goyeshwar Chandra Roy, and Sadeque Hossain

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says a milestone will be created in the friendly relations between Bangladesh and Indian with the passage of Land Boundary Agreement bill in Indian parliament.

Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sayeed Khokon will hold a dialogue with the city dwellers soon, to listen about their problems, the newly elected mayor say after joining office.

The High Court yesterday granted bail to BNP leaders Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury and Gayeshwar Chandra Roy in three cases for

Every year 2.5 million people fall victims to the clutches of human trafficking, 70% of which are female.

A teenage boy, who was injured by one of his playmates during a cricket match in Parbatipur upazila on Saturday afternoon, died at Rangpur Prime Medical College Hospital early yesterday.

Aggrieved locals block the busy Dhaka-Mymensingh road for nearly an hour demanding national celebration of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam’s birth anniversary.

Conveying disappointment both at irregularities in the city corporation elections and BNP's boycott midway through, Washington has said the focus must now be on a transparent investigation to make sure that the next election is highly improved. “We remain focused on a long-term solution that accommodates all parties and allows the Bangladeshi people to peacefully express their views,” said a top US diplomat in Dhaka on Friday.

BNP yesterday demanded that the Election Commission cancel the April 28 city corporation elections and hold those again.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday expressed her hope that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon would advise BNP to return to the

Hasina Ahmed, wife of BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed, yesterday again sought intervention of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to locate her

The BNP-backed candidates wanted to stay in the city elections until the end, but Awami League men by intimidating polling agents

Differences have surfaced in the 14-party ruling alliance, as Awami League kept its partners in the dark on the issue of the just

A fire breaks out at a bicycle manufacturing factory in Sreepur upazila in Gazipur.

A herd of 16 elephant tramples a woman on a hill of Satkania upazila in Chittagong.

The High Court yesterday adjourned for six more days the hearing on two seven-year-old writ petitions filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda

The results of Tuesday's battle of ballots in the three city corporations give some food for thoughts. Three BNP-backed mayoral aspirants jointly polled 9.24 lakh votes, around 35 percent of the total vote cast, even though they boycotted the polls midway.

All three mayor aspirants blessed by main opposition in parliament Jatiya Party could not even bag one-eighth of the votes cast in