Expatriates’ welfare ministry has decided to provide Tk 20,000-25,000 to each Saudi Arabia-bound migrant worker for hotel booking (for institutional quarantine) -- from the Wage Earners Welfare Fund -- to reduce their huge financial burden.

Police arrested six men on charge of gang-raping a woman on a running bus in Savar’s Ashulia area.

Four mild earthquakes jolted Sylhet today, creating panic among people in the district.

The Indian Covid-19 variant has been detected in samples of 13 more people in Bangladesh.

Three of a family, including a child, sustained burn injuries in a fire at their tin-shed house in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area early today.

Bangladeshi migrant workers in crisis-hit Lebanon are going to get free Covid-19 vaccines on Saturday under a national campaign launched by the Middle East country.

The University Grants Commission has allowed all universities to take in-person examinations for undergraduate and master’s degrees.

Export of mangoes to the UK from Rajshahi started today with the first consignment of three tonnes of the sweet summer fruit sent to Dhaka for packaging.

Two more accused confessed to a magistrate today that they were directly involved with the murder of trader Shahinuddin in the capital's Pallabi area on May 16.

Deputy Minister for Water Resources AKM Enamul Hoque Shameem today said the government has started repair works, including immediate rehabilitation, in the country’s coastal areas affected by Cyclone Yaas.

Bangladeshi expatriates who returned from Malaysia and have been stranded here for 14 months will form a human chain in front of the National Pres Club on June 1 to demand that they be allowed to go back to their workplaces.

Two people died after being electrocuted and another was injured in Ulipur upazila of Kurigram today.

The body of a child, who went missing in tidal water -- caused by the impact of Cyclone Yaas -- in Hatiya of Noakhali on Wednesday, was recovered this afternoon.

The allowance for the valiant freedom fighters of the country is going to see a significant jump of 66.66% in the coming 2021-22 fiscal.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has developed fever last night, said BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today.

One person was killed and five others were injured in a head-on collision between a bus and an auto-rickshaw on the Gaibandha-Saghata Road in Badiakhali today.

Two of the five Bangladeshis, who were arrested in India’s Bengaluru for rape and assault of a woman, sustained bullet injuries in their legs today while allegedly attempting to escape from police custody.

Police recovered the body of a man from Manikganj’s Shibalaya upazila this morning.

A 14-year-old boy has allegedly raped a four-year-old at a village of ​​Lalmonirhat municipality.

The United Nations has awarded eight fallen peacekeepers from Bangladesh posthumously with the “Dag Hammarskjöld Medal”.