In total, 727.81 km of rural roads, including three bridges and three culverts, were damaged in Patuakhali due to the storm triggered by Cyclone Yaas.

Two forest officials sustained serious injuries in an attack carried out by illegal occupants of forest land in Rangunia upazila of Chattogtam today.

Professor Dr Farid-ul-Alam, former head of Pediatrics Department of Chattogram Ma o Shishu Hospital and Medical College, died of post-Covid-19 complications at the hospital in the port city today.

A Dhaka court today placed five university students on five-day remand each in a case filed for possessing LSD.

A farmer was hacked to death and two of his brothers were severely injured over a land-related dispute in Sonagazi upazila of Feni.

Police recovered the body of a doctor from her house in Dhaka’s Kalabagan area this afternoon.

Despite not being a member of law enforcement agencies, he gained knowledge on case documents, general diary and arrest warrants as he had been working for a CID inspector for several years.

Local administration, civil surgeon and local representative can jointly declare lockdown in an entire district or in a particular place if Covid-19 situation turns serious there.

The High Court today directed the Non-government Teachers' Registration and Certification Authority (NTRCA) to recommend to the authorities concerned -- in four weeks -- to recruit around 2,500 contempt of court petitioners, who qualified relevant exams as teachers of private educational institutions.

The energy regulator today cut the retail price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) of private companies by over 7 per cent to Tk 842 for every 12kg cylinder.

Azizul Haque Islamabadi, organising secretary of Hefajat's now-dissolved committee, was shown arrested today in a case filed with Paltan Police Station over March 26 violence centring the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Twelve among 24 people who have been diagnosed with Covid-19 in Moulvibazar in the last two days till Sunday, have come from Chapainawabganj, said Moulvibazar Civil Surgeon Chowdhury Jalal Uddin Murshed.

Authorities today extended the strict lockdown in Chapainawabganj amid the spread of Indian Covid-19 variant in the border district.

A virtual court in Dhaka today rejected a bail petition of two accused in a case filed over the killing of businessman Shahinuddin in Dhaka’s Pallabi area on May 16.

The imam of capital’s Dakshinkhan Sardar Para Mosque and his accomplice today confessed to magistrates that garment worker Azharul Islam was killed in a preplanned manner.

Residents of Chattogram’s Mirsharai upazila formed a human chain at the main gate of Bangladesh Steel Re-Rolling Mills Ltd (BSRM) factory today demanding stoppage of groundwater extraction with deep tube wells by the factory as it is causing water crisis in the region.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today put forward three suggestions before the Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 (P4G), including strengthening the campaign about its action-oriented approach by engaging more financiers, innovators, policymakers and creative entrepreneurs in its focus areas.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today called for precaution instead of panicking after a series of mild quakes were felt in the northeastern district.

Police today said they arrested five persons along with the drug lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) from Dhaka’s Khilgaon area.

A group of miscreants snatched the main accused of a murder case, Raju Biswas (34), from a lawyer on the way to District Judge's Court in Jashore city.