Bangladesh Coast Guard seize 3,080kg hilsa and detain 168 fishermen for netting the fish defying a government ban on hilsa fishing from September 25 to October 9 to protect the fish during the breeding time.

A schoolgirl drowned in a pond at Khaliya village in Mohammadpur upazila of the district on Sunday.

A villager was shot dead and two others were injured by a gang of robbers at Paschim Auliapur village under Patuakhali Sadar upazila early

High Court declares holding the office of Member of Parliament by Chief Whip ASM Feroz legal.

A Sylhet court yesterday sentenced a man to death and two others to life imprisonment for killing their neighbour in Bianibazar upaizla in

The Supreme Court yesterday cleared the lower court to resume the trial proceedings against former lawmakers Harun-or-Rashid and

Customs Intelligence officials seized 675 cartons of foreign cigarettes worth around Tk 1 crore at Shah Amanat International Airport in

The Supreme Court yesterday upheld a High Court verdict that cleared the way for a lower court to run the trial proceedings of a corruption case against former Dhaka City Corporation mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka.

Rapid Action Battalion arrested a former official of a private bank in the capital's Kamalapur yesterday in a case filed for misappropriating about Tk 8.98 crore from the bank through forgery.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday approved the charge sheet against 14 persons, including Managing Director of

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) approves a charge sheet against 14 people, including Bismillah Group’s Managing Director Khaza Solaiman Anwar Chowdhury, for embezzling Tk 110 crore from Shahjalal Islami Bank.

Police arrested a Jamaat leader from Patiya upazila of Chittagong early yesterday on charge of planning sabotage.

A Chittagong court on Thursday acquitted former Chittagong City Corporation mayor Mahmudul Islam Chowdhury in a corruption case

The Anti-Corruption Commission filed two separate cases against Bera municipality Mayor Md Abdul Baten and 12 others for embezzling

Terming the decision to increase power tariff as ‘unjustified’, Awami League lawmaker Suranjit Sengupta calls upon the government to reconsider it.

Corruption and criminality in the transport sector are the main barriers to development of the public transport system in Bangladesh,

A Dhaka court places three alleged members of Ansarullah Bangla Team on a fresh three-day remand in connection with the killing of blogger-writer Avijit Roy.

The Supreme Court yesterday allowed the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to appeal against the High Court's acquittal of the daily

A Dhaka court places BNP chairperson's adviser Shawkat Mahmud on a four-day fresh remand in four separate arson and vandalism cases.

Massive corruption prevails in the land offices and people have to pay bribes starting from Tk 100 to Tk 20 lakh in every step to get land related services, according a report of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) reveals.