One in every 1,000 tuberculosis (TB) patient in Bangladesh has HIV, found a recent study -- in what can be viewed as a boost to the country’s bid to end the infectious disease and meet 90-90-90 targets for HIV by 2030.

Pakistani President Yahya Khan, in a letter dated June 28, 1971, expressed his disappointment to American President Richard Nixon at Pakistan

Although road conditions under Roads and Highways Department network have improved a little compared to the last year, over 3,000km surveyed roads -- 16.26 percent -- are still in “poor, bad or very bad” condition, says an RHD survey.

The budget declared for 2021-22 financial year is one of the most significant budgets in the history of Bangladesh.

Banks will remain open from 10am to 3.30pm during the upcoming countrywide lockdown starting from July 1.

Thirteen Bangladeshis have been sentenced to six months in prison in Malta after they were caught trying to enter the county with fake Pakistani passports.

The Korea-Bangladesh CSR Conference 2021 has been organised to raise awareness about corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the private sector’s increasing role in the sustainable development and share good CSR practices by Korean companies in Bangladesh, Korean Ambassador Lee Jang-keun said today.

Adoption of modern technology to attain sustainable growth in the SME sector is a must now in Bangladesh, experts said at a webinar today.

A five-year-old was strangled to death after rape in Chattogram’s Chandgaon area today. Police recovered the body from under the bed of the victim’s residence at noon.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) today said they have detained nine members of an inter-district robbery gang and recovered eight homemade weapons and drugs from them in Ashulia of Savar.

The benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) lost more than 100 points today amid fears for the upcoming lockdown, which will begin countrywide on July 1.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen is skeptical if procuring vaccines would be smooth at all, saying that bilateral cooperation is not the only deciding factor, but there are issues of global politics affecting vaccine supply.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today described the nationwide lockdown announced by the government to contain Coronavirus spread as a 'joke' since it repeatedly failed to fully enforce such restrictions in recent times.

​A total of 119 people died of Covid-19 in the country in 24 hours (till 8am) today, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The government has directed to suspend all types of public transport, except goods-laden vehicles and rickshaws, across the country from 8am tomorrow to 6am on Thursday.

Four persons were killed and one was critically injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a private car in Jashore. The accident took place at Dhopakhola area on Benapole-Jashore road this afternoon.

Rab claimed to have arrested four alleged drug traders along with lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and a “new drug” N, N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) from Dhaka’s Tejgaon industrial area last night.

Dhaka Education Board has postponed the process of form fill-up for Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examination 2021, considering the surge in Covid-19 cases.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today at a press conference said that the party’s efforts regarding advanced treatment of chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia abroad is “ongoing”.

A school student was swept away by waves this morning after he went to the Cox’s Bazar sea beach.