Police have started interrogating two friends of Dhaka University student Hafizur Rahman over his death.

Police today appealed to a Dhaka court to show Rafiqul Islam Madani, more widely known as "Shishu Bokta" arrested in another case filed with Paltan Police Station over the recent violence in Dhaka centering Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit on March 26.

The home ministry today suspended a superintendent of police (SP) ranked official and an assistant SP after their alleged phone conversation regarding police and Rab leaked.

Water level has increased in different rivers of Bagerhat and has inundated low-lying areas due to strong winds and tide as severe cyclonic storm 'Yaas' is lying over northwest Bay and adjoining areas.

Comments by any ambassador on any decision of Bangladesh are irrelevant, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said today in reaction to Palestinian Ambassador in Dhaka Yousef SY Ramadan’s remarks expressing frustration over removing the words “except Israel” from Bangladeshi passports.

Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) Minister Md Tazul Islam today urged the public representatives of local government to be prepared to face Cyclone Yaas which is likely to cross West Bengal coast of India by tomorrow noon.

Fifteen people have died so far due to diarrhoea in the last 20 days in Noakhali.

At least 21 villages of Patuakhali district have been inundated as Cyclone Yaas was centred about 565 kms southwest of Chattogram port, 525 kms southwest of Cox's Bazar, 455 kms south-southwest of Mongla port and 445 kms south-southwest of Payra port this noon.

Bangladesh Bank today asked banks to keep their branches open in areas where lockdowns have been imposed amid a surge in Covid-19 infections, after having discussion with respective metropolitan and district administrations.

Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) has suspended operation of all types of vessels on all river routes across the country as a precautionary measure against the severe cyclonic storm "Yaas".

Mufti Amir Hamza, a well-known speaker on Islam, was placed on a five-day remand today in connection with a case filed over “misinterpreting the religion and encouraging extremism” at waz mahfils.

After two patients in Dhaka were detected with mucormycosis infection or black fungus, Health Minister Zahid Maleque urged people not to panic over the disease.

Abid Hasan, a former adviser to the World Bank for the Pakistan Programme, has praised Bangladesh's economic growth while highlighting how Pakistan has gone around the world with a "begging bowl" with a possibility of taking aid from Bangladesh in a decade.

UN General Assembly President Volkan Bozkır has applauded the Bhasan Char project for Rohingya refugees, saying this is an example of humanity for the world.

Bangladesh has started administering the Chinese Covid-19 vaccine Sinopharm from today.

The High Court today upheld orders of a lower court that asked Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to freeze bank accounts and seize documents of properties of former Pirojpur lawmaker AKMA Awal and his wife in two corruption cases.

Anti-terrorism unit of police arrested a member of banned militant group Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) yesterday; nearly three years after a Rangpur court sentenced him to death for killing the caretaker of a mazar in 2015.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today expressed concern about the repatriation of Rohigyas following the recent development in Myanmar as it has made the process uncertain.

On the first day of the weeklong lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19, no people were seen on the streets and the busiest areas of the town were almost deserted.

A Swechchhasebak League leader was arrested after a case was filed against him for physically assaulting an executive engineer of Natore Water Development Board.