A total of 1,01,520 under-trial prisoners, including 1,257 minors, were released from jail after securing bail from virtual courts across the country in two phases over 75 working days.

An elderly woman was dead after a motorcycle hit her in Dhaka’s Rayerbagh area this morning.

Counter-terrorism officials claimed to have arrested an operative of the banned militant group Ansar al Islam, who was planning an attack on Jatiya Sangsad, and a preacher for his provocative speech.

The man, who publicly assaulted a rickshaw-puller in Dhaka's Bangshal area two days ago, has to stay in jail till May 23.

Analysing satellite images, Paris-based company Kayrros SAS has detected huge plumes of methane gas over Bangladesh, the Bloomberg recently reported.

Rapid Action Battalion arrested five members of a drug trafficking ring from the capital’s Basila area with 77,000 yaba tablets on Tuesday.

The deans' committee of Dhaka University today recommended holding final examinations -- of all academic years -- online from July 1 if the current Covid-19 situation in Bangladesh does not improve by June.

Water transport workers demonstrated in Dhaka today demanding immediate resumption of launch services on all routes across the country in compliance with health guidelines and payment of all arrears including salaries and bonuses by May 7.

Two Hefajat leaders were placed on different terms of remand today in two separate cases filed with Motijheel and Paltan police stations over the 2013 mayhem in the capital's Shapla Chatter and Paltan areas.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has congratulated Mamata Banerjee on her party Trinamool Congress' historic win in the West Bengal State Assembly elections and hoped to resolve outstanding issues.

Pro-BNP faction of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) today protested against declaring Attorney General AM Amin Uddin as the new president of the organisation without an election.

Counterterrorism officials claimed to have arrested two members of the banned militant group “Neo-JMB” from Dhaka’s Jatrabari area yesterday.

The High Court imposed Tk 10,000 fine on Supreme Court lawyer Md Eunus Ali Akond today for not appearing before it, after filing a writ petition challenging the legality of the ongoing “lockdown”.

A woman died after she fell from a rickshaw as muggers from a private car pulled her bag in Dhaka’s Kamalapur area early this morning.

The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) submitted a charge-sheet today against six people, including five police officials, in a case filed in connection with the custodial killing of Rayhan Ahmed.

Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) is expecting a bumper production of Boro in the Sylhet haor area this year and hopes that farmers will collect 30,000 tonnes of paddy more than this year’s target.

Officials and employees of all government, non-government, autonomous offices and banks, financial institutions will not be allowed to leave their area of work during the Eid-ul-Fitr holiday.

Two persons were killed and another was injured as a truck hit a battery-run rickshaw van at Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat this morning.

Government employees were attacked and vehicles were set on fire to make the March 28 strike successful as per directives of Hefajat-e-Islam’s Joint Secretary General Mamunul Hoque.

Attorney General AM Amin Uddin today said the government will decide after considering the overall situation whether it will send BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia abroad for her treatment.