No Covid-19 death was reported in 24 hours till 8am today, said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Private bus operators started selling advance tickets from this morning for home-goers ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr.

An accused of 13 cases including four filed for murder, was killed in Lohagara upazila of Narail early today.

Eight Rohingya refugees who were trying to flee from Bhasan Char in Hatiya upazila of Noakhali, were detained from Subarnachar upazila last night.

After two years of Covid-19 pandemic related restrictions, the welcoming ceremony of Bangla New Year began this morning (April 14) with numerous shades and colours.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members have arrested six accused in connection with a case filed over stabbing a sub-inspector (SI) of Khaserhat Police Station in Madaripur’s Kalkini upazila.

If there is one thing that Humayun Azad embodied, it was the secular ethos of an independent nation. Hence his life and works could be summed up as a man’s struggle against religious extremism.

With the first rays of the morning sun, the nation, after two long years, is set to usher in Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangla New Year and the biggest secular festival for Bangladeshis.

The World Bank yesterday advised the government to reconsider its decision to dip into the foreign exchange reserves for development projects given the elevated balance of payment deficit and the need for exchange rate flexibility.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has congratulated newly elected Prime Minister of Pakistan Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif.

The government should consider the operators’ demand on slashing corporate tax as the mobile operators have to continue investing big to cope up with rapidly changing technology, said Shyam Sunder Sikder, chairman of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission.

The Supreme Court today set July 24 to hear the leave to appeal petition filed by internationally acclaimed photographer Shahidul Alam against a High Court verdict on him in connection with the case filed under a controversial section of the Information and Communication Technology Act, which has been abolished more than three and a half years ago.

The government today announced April 17 as a public holiday in Meherpur’s Mujibnagar upazila marking the historic Mujibnagar Day.

Two separate cases and a written complaint have been lodged with Ashulia Police Station over rape of two girls and a child in Savar of Dhaka.

A decade and a half ago, writer, poet, linguist, and a professor of the Bengali Department of Dhaka University, Humayun Azad, was brutally attacked by extremist militants on February 27, 2004, outside the Amar Ekushey Book Fair.

A youth was stabbed to death in Kathapatti launch ghat area of ​​Mirkadim municipality in Munshiganj.

The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) will start conducting the population and housing census from June 15.

In a sigh of relief, the runway at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport will remain operational for 24 hours from next month instead of June.

A century-old building in Old Dhaka, known as the Neelam Ghar, will be knocked down and lost like many other historical structures of the city.

Tour operators of Bangladesh have put forward a proposal to introduce a direct bus service between Agartala, capital city of Indian state of Tripura, and Chattogram via Dhaka, Tripura’s Tourism Minister Pranajit Singha Roy said today.