The Health Directorate has decided to test Covid-19 samples of Bangladeshi citizens going abroad at the Bangladesh Army Stadium from now.

Despite repeated assurances from the authorities concerned on ending waterlogging, parts of Chattogram city witnessed severe waterlogging today as in previous years.

As the government is set to shift 80,000 more Rohingyas to Bhashan Char soon, it has sought a more active role of the international community to ensure all fundamental rights, including livable accommodation for the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals.

The medical board -- of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) -- formed for physical check-up of cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore, who suffered in custody from May 2 to May 4 last year, did not find any signs of torture.

The government has extended the ongoing countrywide restriction on public movement and transport till June 16 amid a surge in the Covid-19 cases.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained five Bangladeshis who were entering the country illegally from India through Baghadanga and Shyamkur border areas in Jhenaidah's Maheshpur upazila.

Turnover at the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) hit a decade high today, which was the first trading day after the announcement of the national budget for 2021-22 fiscal year.

Thirty-eight people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The old-age allowance of 104-year-old Lokman Hossain Mondol, from Pabna’s Sujanagar upazila, has been halted by the local office of Social Welfare Department as the Election Commission’s updated voter list marked him as “deceased”.

Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora, additional director general (planning and development) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), today made an official visit to Chapainawabganj amid alarming rise in the number of Covid-19 cases in the district.

Tk 6,434 crore has been collected as toll so far from Bangabandhu Bridge since its inauguration in 1998, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader told the parliament today.

Seventeen more people have been diagnosed with coronavirus in Thakurgaon district in 24 hours, till this morning -- showing a sharp rise in the number of Covid-19 cases.

Two cousins died after lightning hit them in the front yard of their house in Feni.

A senior Awami League lawmaker came down heavily on the government in the parliament for corruption and money laundering in the country.

The High Court questioned a lower court’s order today that asked the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to freeze bank accounts and seize property documents of Pirojpur’s former Awami League lawmaker AKMA Awal and his wife Laila Parvin in connection with two corruption cases.

The Supreme Court today stayed till June 20 the High Court’s bail orders for BNP leader Aslam Chowdhury in two vandalism and arson cases.

Bangladesh National Archive Bill, 2021 was placed in the parliament today, keeping provisions that no record can be destroyed, and every record has to be archived.

Residents in Kurigram’s Bajra union now below poverty line after losing all to erosion by Teesta river.

Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) has approved Chinese Covid-19 vaccine “CoronaVac”, manufactured by Sinovac Life Sciences Company Limited.

A Dhaka University student died after fire officials found her in unconscious state in a sublet room at government staff quarters in Palashi area and rushed her to hospital this morning.