A special court here on Monday sentenced a man to 17 years' imprisonment for possessing firearms and ammunition.

The road transport and bridges ministry signs three contracts with three joint ventures to expand 60km Joydevpur- Tangail road into a four-lane one.

UN Under-Secretary General for Field Support Atul Khare says they are keen to have more Bangladesh peacekeepers in policy and command level positions.

Twenty-eight more diarrhoea patients were admitted to Gaibandha Sadar Hospital yesterday.

UN rights experts, speaking ahead of the International Day of Democracy, deplores the increasing erosion of democracy as a result of repressive policies in some countries but also by virtue of the increasing influence of vested interests at the expense of the public will.

Eminent educationist Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, who sat shell-shocked in the rain after students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (Sust) assaulted their teachers, says that the incident was a surreal experience for him.

A boy drowned in a pond on his school premises in the city on Monday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Ivan Ahmed Antar, 14,

At least 20 shops were gutted in a devastating fire at a market in Sonali Road area under Char Fashion municipality of the district early

Customs Intelligence seizes a huge quantity of illegal VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) equipment at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

With inundation of fresh areas, the flood situation in Gaibandha, Jamalpur and Bogra districts deteriorated further yesterday.

Rapid Action Battalion today claimed to have detained a smuggler with 1.50 lakh yaba tablets from a house in Anwara upazila of Chittagong.

A middle-aged man dies crushed between two buses while trying to board one of them near Jatrabari crossing in Dhaka.

Humam Quader Chowdhury, son of BNP leader and war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, has been sent to jail in connection with an attempted murder case.

The main road in Jhalakathi town stretching from Sadhanar More to Petrol Pump More has become unfit for vehicular movement due to

A schoolgirl was killed by lightning at Jamdia village in Bagharpara upazila of Jessore district on Tuesday night. The dead is Suraiya Khatun, 9, daughter of

Traffic movement on Lalmonirhat-Burimari highway came to a halt as three steel plates of the deck of the Bailey bridge over the

Dhaka court places two members of Ansar Ullah Bangla team on an eight-day remand each in connection with the killing of secular blogger Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy.

Integrity and reform are needed in the country's politics which has been intertwined with business, Executive Director of Transparency

A man and his two children drowned in Chalan Beel when they went to the large water body for fishing at Nafo Syedpur village in Tarash

Sculptor Ferdousi Priyabhashini receives death threat over phone from an unknown caller this afternoon, a day into the killing of blogger Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy.