Canada has assured Bangladesh that it will consider the request to provide vaccines for Rohingya refugees and the host communities.

The Supreme Court today upheld the High Court orders that stayed the government decision for cancelling freedom fighter status of 196 retired members of army, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Bangladesh Air Force (BAF), and also directed the government to give them benefits as freedom fighters.

Indian state minister and Lok Sabha MP Shantanu Thakur has written a letter to the country’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking his intervention to safeguard the “Matua Hindu community members whose shrines and properties have been attacked in Bangladesh”.

The seventh Oxygen Express, from India, has reached Bangladesh with 186.29 tonnes of liquid medical oxygen.

The government has decided to impose a new set of restrictions from August 19, allowing all public transport -- roads, rail and river -- maintaining health guidelines.

Most look forward to the monsoon season every year, but that is not the case for residents of the Pagar Alerteg area adjacent to the Tongi Industrial Zone of the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC).

Wild elephants face serious threats to their survival in the country, thanks to frequent killings of the giant mammal and shrinking of their habitat in the absence of concrete protective measures by the government.

The Times (London), in an editorial titled ‘The Fate of Sheikh Mujib’, wrote today that the decision to try Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in secret was lamentable.

Bangladesh will observe National Fisheries Week-2021 starting from August 28 across the country maintaining health rules in a befitting manner, Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul Karim said today.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has been tasked to investigate six more cases filed against sacked Awami League leader Helena Jahangir, film producer Nazrul Islam Raz, models and their associates.

Police recovered the bodies of a couple from a room of a rented house in Ashulia, Savar.

Eleven people, including Channel i Managing Director Faridur Reza Sagar and its spokesperson Shykh Seraj, were sued under the Persons with Disabilities Rights and Protection Act today.

The High Court in the full text of a verdict has observed that allegation against former BNP minister Mirza Abbas of misappropriation regarding leasing out a government land has been disclosed primarily, and he cannot avoid the responsibility.

Mobile courts of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) today handed out fines of Tk 5.3 lakh to different people, including authorities of Concord IK Tower and HSBC bank, after finding Aedes mosquito larvae at their establishments.

Local electronics giant Walton Hi-tech Industries saw its profit doubled in the recently concluded 2020-21 financial year thanks to the higher sales of air-conditioners and refrigerators after experiencing a massive fall in earnings since the Covid-19 outbreak.

Three people were killed in separate incidents of lightning strikes in Mymensingh today.

A motorcyclist was killed after his motorbike collided with a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Singair upazila of Manikganj today.

Beleaguered e-commerce platform Evaly gets three weeks to respond to the commerce ministry’s show-cause notice and explain the whereabouts of around Tk 338 crore that it owes to customers and merchants.

Speakers at a webinar today said that the Covid-19 pandemic has harmed the overall lives and livelihood of indigenous women. Titled "Livelihood Crisis and Security of Indigenous Women in Covid-19", the webinar was organised by Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF).

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh said dengue cases have started to observe a downtrend due to their ongoing combing operation.