The economic shock induced by the pandemic has pushed 2.45 crore people into poverty in one year. The Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) and the Brac Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) run this survey and found that the number of new poor people is higher in urban areas than in rural areas.

Police today arrested Hefajat-e-Islam's now defunct central committee assistant secretary general Maulana Jafar Ahmad and two others from Hathazari upazila in Chattogram.

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) last night detained a Bangladeshi man at Roumari border in Kurigram.

A Dhaka court today sent two owners of an unauthorised chemical warehouse to jail on completion of their three-day remand in a case filed over the devastating fire that killed six people in old Dhaka's Armanitola on April 23.

Criminal Investigation Department arrested Hefajat-e-Islam leader Junayed Al Quasemi from Brahmanbaria this morning.

Around 340 doves and 60 pigeons died after consuming poison-laced bird food in Morrelganj upazila of Bagerhat.

The government is considering the resumption of public transport services across the country ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said today.

A man, who was on a four-day remand in a case filed over the April 5 violence in Saltha upazila of Faridpur, died in police custody early today.

A Dhaka court today rejected a bail petition of Maulana Ihteshamul Haque Sakhi, former joint office secretary of Hefajat-e-Islam, and sent him to jail in a case filed with Paltan Police Station over the 2013 mayhem in Dhaka.

Authorities have designated 16 establishments in Jashore city to quarantine India-returnees arriving through Benapole land port.

Three vegetable traders were killed and three others were injured when they fell from a pick-up van after it was hit by a truck on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj early today.

The historic May Day is being observed today as the world is battling the coronavirus pandemic which has rendered millions of workers jobless across countries in recent months.

Customs officials detained two, including a Saudi expatriate, along with 18 gold bars weighing 3.4 kg at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport early today.

A woman died after her son allegedly hit her in the head with a brick in Dhaka’s Jatrabari area last night.

The project implementation officer (PIO) of Habiganj’s Madhabpur upazila has been arrested on charge of misappropriating Tk 16.68 lakh through forging signature of the local upazila nirbahi officer (UNO).

The authorities of Jahangirnagar University (JU) has decided to start its online registration process for the 2020-21 academic session from June 1 to June 15.

A 21-year-old woman was found dead in a hotel room in Cox’s Bazar yesterday afternoon

A survey by Brac Migration Programme has found that 47.23 percent of 417 returnee migrants do not have any income source now.

Considering the current Covid-19 situation in Bangladesh, the provost standing committee of Dhaka University (DU) has recommended against reopening residential halls on May 17.

An official of a Chinese shoe company inside Cumilla Export Processing Zone (CEPZ) was stabbed to death in Cumilla city this afternoon.