Chattogram district recorded its highest number of deaths and infections from Covid-19 during 24 hours (till this morning).

The government has decided to set up more vaccination centres across the country to speed up the inoculation drive especially in remote areas amid a surge in Covid deaths and infections.

Amnesty International says it has found a concerning pattern in which the Bangladeshi authorities are weaponising sections 25, 29 and 31 of the Digital Security Act to target and harass critical voices.

As recently as in 2018, the Sarkari Chakori Ain was formulated, giving public servants an array of benefits.

Surpassing the total number of cases last year, at least 1,430 dengue patients were hospitalised just this month, indicating an alarming rise in the Aedes-borne disease.

At least three members of banned militant outfit Ansar Al Islam are said to have travelled to Afghanistan recently while many others are expressing their desire in closed online groups to reach that country, leaving law enforcers concerned.

A local ruling party activist was hacked to death by his fellow partymen in the Damukdia area of Shailkupa on Sunday night over establishing supremacy in the locality.

The government yesterday approved the creation of three new upazilas -- “Eidgaon” in Cox’s Bazar, “Modhyanagar” in Sunamganj and “Dashar” in Madaripur -- in a bid to ensure balanced development in those remote areas.

In a telephone conversion with American president Nixon, his security adviser Kissinger stated, “I will make it clear with the Indians that there isn’t going to be a war. …The problem—no military aid to Pakistan, they are not even getting economic aid. If anything will tempt the Indians to attack, it will be the complete helplessness of Pakistan.”

Three youths were arrested over the gang rape of a 20-year-old girl in Khulna’s Dumuria upazila on Saturday.

Labour courts in Bangladesh, on average, take 10 times longer than the prescribed term to pass a judgement. Even after they do, many employers do not pay reparations properly. To add to that, there is the high cost of prosecution. Most of the cases are settled outside court. For average workers to ask for justice is to ask for more hassle. If this is the state of our labour courts, how can justice be ensured for workers?

A man today confessed to killing his wife and daughter at their Noagaon residence in the city’s Kamrangirchar area and tried to die by suicide after the killings on Saturday.

A 6-part webinar series, ‘Shoto Borsho Shoto Asha – Rise Up’ Webinar Series being organised by High Commission of India, Dhaka, Startup Bangladesh, Ministry of ICT, Govt of Bangladesh and StartUp India was inaugurated on July 26 by State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak and High Commissioner of India Vikram Doraiswami.

Countrywide oxygen demand has increased 4 to 5 times, and still the health ministry is claiming that Bangladesh is not at risk of oxygen shortage. On the other hand, the director general of the health directorate made promises of importing oxygen from India.

Today (26 July), overall movement of people, personal vehicles and rickshaws has increased throughout the country despite law enforcement agencies’ active patrolling on the streets.

A fire at Gafur Tower on Topkhana Road in Dhaka this evening was brought under control an hour after it broke out.

The CEOs of every financial institution will now need to take prior approval from Bangladesh Bank (BB) for travelling abroad be it for official purposes or personal.

Police have arrested 587 people for defying Covid-19 restrictions and health guidelines in Dhaka city on the fourth day of the two-week "strict lockdown" today.

Where there used to be a buzz of thousands of people all day and night -- there is now nothing but stillness.

Ten mobile courts of Dhaka South City Corporation today fined owners of seven under-construction buildings over Tk 1 lakh after they found larvae of Aedes mosquito on the premises.