Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the armed forces to remain ever prepared to thwart any threat to the country’s independence and sovereignty.

Two people have been arrested over the rape of a 17-year-old girl in a house at Nimtala in Sirajdikhan upazila of Munshiganj.

Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder told the parliament today that there is no apprehension about food shortage in the country in the current fiscal year.

US Ambassador to Bangladesh, Peter Haas, has announced USD 152 million in new humanitarian assistance for nearly one million Rohingyas and host communities.

A court in Khulna today sentenced four people to death in a case filed over the murder of a man in 2016.

At least 69 new infections were recorded and one person died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8 am today, said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Al Khair Sporting Club emerged as champions of the Gulf Exchange Gold Cup Cricket Tournament, organised by the Bangladesh Social Club, as they beat Sahabia XI by three wickets in the final at the Bangladesh School Muscat ground in Oman last Friday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday came down heavily on the US for imposing sanctions on Rab and some of its officials saying that this has been an abominable move.

Bangladeshi journalist Zahidur Rahman and expatriate engineer Saiful Islam Tipu, who went missing in Tripoli on March 23, are now in the “safe custody” of the Libyan authorities.

Mass Media Employees (Services Conditions) Bill-2022 was placed in parliament yesterday, which stipulates the job facilities of journalists and employees of media outlets.

The cabinet yesterday approved in principle a bill that carries up to capital punishment for any Ansar member taking part in a mutiny, provoking it or conspiring to do so.

Work hours at government, semi-government, autonomous and semi-autonomous institutions during Ramadan will be from 9:00am to 3:30pm.

Star archer Ruman Sana was eliminated in the individual recurve bow event of the 13th National Archery Championships when the Olympian suffered a 6-4 defeat to Rakib Miah in the quarterfinals while Diya Siddique progressed to the final of the same event at the Shaheed Ahsan Ullah Master Stadium in Tongi yesterday.

Bangladesh today rolled out the second round of its mega Covid vaccination drive without any registration, aiming to achieve the target of vaccinating 90 percent people of the country.

Masum alias Akash, who allegedly shot and killed Awami League Leader Jahidul Islam Tipu and college student Samia Afran Prity in Dhaka's Shahjanpur area, was arrested in from an unpopular hotel in Bogura's Charmatha area when he was in sleep.

A Dhaka court today placed Masum Mohammad alias Akash on a seven-day remand in the case filed over killing two people, including former general secretary of Motijheel Awami League Jahidul Islam Tipu in Dhaka's Shahjahanpur on March 24.

Police recovered the body of a schoolgirl from a paddy field in Satkhira’s Kalaroa upazila this morning, hours after she went missing.

A fire that broke out at a building in old Dhaka’s Islampur this afternoon, has been brought under control after half an hour.

At least nine activists of Bam Gonotantrik Jote, an alliance of left-leaning parties, were injured when supporters of Awami League allegedly attacked their processions in Mirpur and Mohammadpur areas in the capital today.

At least 10 leaders and activists of Bam Gonotantrik Jote, an alliance of left-leaning parties, were injured as police charged baton on their procession in Narayanganj city during its nationwide half-day hartal today.