Dhaka, May 19 -- Police have arrested "Picchi Raja", a suspected drug trafficker based in Dhaka's Mohammadpur, upon his return from Nepal. He was apprehended at Shahjalal International Airport on Tue... Read More
Dhaka, May 19 -- Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has ordered measures to prevent water pollution in Gulshan, Banani and Baridhara lakes and to increase civic amenities involving these waterbodies. The ... Read More
Dhaka, May 19 -- Australian investigators have suggested that a widely publicised murder-suicide case in Western Australia influenced a triple domestic homicide in Sydney that left a woman and her two... Read More
Dhaka, May 19 -- A Dhaka court has rejected the bail petition of former Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayor Atiqul Islam in a case over the murder of a seventh-grader during the July Uprising. ... Read More
Dhaka, May 19 -- Coastguards have seized 14,500 litres of fuel and 5,000 litres of soybean oil illegally stored for sale in Chattogram city amid a nationwide crackdown on unauthorised hoarding. The f... Read More
Dhaka, May 19 -- A group of 170 Bangladeshi nationals, who were stranded in Libya's Benghazi after attempting to reach Europe by sea, have been repatriated. The returnees touched down at Shahjalal In... Read More
Dhaka, May 19 -- Applicants seeking Indian citizenship under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019 will have to declare whether they hold a valid or an expired passport from Bangladesh, Afghanista... Read More
Dhaka, May 19 -- An official of the Indian High Commission in Chattogram has been found dead inside the mission premises. The deceased has been identified only as Narendra, 38, who was serving as an ... Read More
Dhaka, May 19 -- Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina has said she will return to the country "very soon", linking her comeback to what she described as the restoration of a democratic environment and ... Read More
Dhaka, May 19 -- The thousands of Bangladeshi expatriates who call the USA's San Diego home are grappling with unprecedented anxiety and grief after a deadly, hate-motivated shooting outside a major m... Read More