The Indian media has applauded Bangladesh’s currency swap with Sri Lanka this past week, claiming that Dhaka has started to showcase its economic rise and forge deeper ties with its neighbours.

Two girls, who were lured with the promise of jobs and later forced into prostitution, were rescued from Chattogram.

Bangladesh Bank today extended the banking hour by half an hour and decided to keep banks open from 10am to 3pm from tomorrow until June 6.

Some students of Dhaka University this morning held a protest at the base of Raju Sculpture -- demanding reopening of educational institutions and dormitories.

NID services should be entrusted to the Election Commission, Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda said today.

All the ad-interim orders delivered by the High Court including those regarding bails have been extended for the next four weeks because of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic

Bangladesh nationals in Khulna division’s six districts have been using some points between Bangladesh and India to cross the border without visa.

Travel ban via land borders with India has been extended for 14 more days, a foreign ministry official has said.

Fourteen Rohingyas were detained in Chattogram’s Sandwip upazila this morning when they were fleeing from Bhasan Char -- around 40 km off Noakhali.

A Dhaka court placed three university students on a five-day remand today in a case filed for possessing Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD).

Health, education, social safety net and agricultural sectors should get priority in the next budget for quick recovery of health of the general mass and the economy as a whole, according to the South Asian Network for Economic Modeling (SANEM).

Sushashoner Jonno Nagorik (Shujan), a civil society platform for good governance, released a statement today expressing concern over the decision to entrust the NID services to the Ministry of Home Affairs instead of the Election Commission.

The Cabinet Division issued a circular today, extending the ongoing countrywide restrictions on movement and public transport till June 6 in a bid to contain the spread of Covid-19.

Two senior officials of UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, arrived today on a four-day visit to observe the Rohingya situation in both Cox's Bazar Rohingya camps and Bhasan Char.

Police have arrested a man, accused in eight cases filed for killing tigers and deer in the Sundarbans of Bagerhat.

Rab arrested two persons including a police official on charge of drug trading in Narayanganj’s Siddhirganj upazila yesterday.

A day after five tremors hit Sylhet, another mild quake was felt early today.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s fever is now under control and she will recover within a day or two, the party’s Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said today.

The Supreme Court today extended till June 20 its chamber judge's order that stayed the High Court bail to seven convicts in a case filed over the attack on the then opposition leader and now Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Satkhira in 2002.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained an Indian national from the border area in Panchagarh Sadar on charge of trespassing into Bangladesh territory yesterday.