The Indian Border Security Force (BSF) has handed over a leader of the Awami Swechasebak League to the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) after detaining him for his alleged illegal entry into India ...

The accused Billal Hossain, a vegetable vendor in Bishnupur Union, was produced before Judicial Magistrate Shahadatul Hasan Al Murad's court, where he gave a confessional statement ...

Deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina has fled the country following the July uprising, but her oppressive system remains in place, National Citizen Party (NCP) Member Secretary Akhtar Hossain said ...

Despite the absence of any price-sensitive information, the sudden rise in Regent Textile’s share price has surprised market insiders ...

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A man was injured after a group of unidentified men allegedly fired shots in a real estate office in Pallabi in the capital during an attempt to extort Tk5 crore. The incident occurred around 5:00pm ...

Several issues remain unresolved following the second round of trade talks between Bangladesh and the United States, despite progress on multiple fronts, Golam Mortoza, press minister at the Embassy ...

Speakers at the event presented their three-point demand to the government and pledged to make the upcoming “grand rally” in Dhaka on 30 August a success ...

The protest began at 5:15pm for around 40 minutes when demonstrators carrying banners occupied the expressway, halting all forms of vehicular movement ...

Rural women are not passive beneficiaries of development—they are economic actors. Yet national budgets continue to treat them as invisible, undermining both equity and sustainable development ...

More than 150 killings have occurred due to intra-party conflict and struggles for dominance, the Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir has claimed. "A political party has forgotten history and is once ...

A Dhaka court has remanded Md Titon Gazi, one of the accused in the brutal murder of scrap trader Lal Chand alias Sohag near Sir Salimullah Medical College Mitford Hospital in Old Dhaka, who denied ...