Additional Deputy Commissioner (DB Gulshan Division) Golam Saklain Shithil was withdrawn from the Dhaka Metropolitan Police's Detective Branch following allegations of unprofessional conduct with actress Pori Moni.

Physical distancing, the essential health safety rule to prevent Covid-19 transmission, was largely ignored by thousands of people around the country on the first day of the government’s 6-day mass vaccination drive.

The newly inaugurated Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib Covid-19 Field Hospital will provide services to the critically ill Covid-19 patients only.

Microcredit provider Brac has got approval to issue zero-coupon bonds worth Tk1, 350 crore through private placement.

Eight people died of Covid-19 and 15 with Covid-like symptoms in Barishal division in 24 hours (till 8 am today).

Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Shafiqul Islam today said they will take action against Golam Saklain Shithil, an additional deputy commissioner (DB Gulshan Division), if allegations of his unprofessional conduct with actress Pori Moni is found true.

The government is going to purchase six crore doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine from China, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said today.

Nurnabi, a visually impaired Lalmonirhat resident, used to make a living by singing in markets.

Nine people -- eight Covid positive and one with symptoms -- died in Kushtia during 24 hours till 8am today.

As the Delta variant of Covid-19 keeps wreaking havoc, Bangladesh today started a mass vaccination drive across the country -- aimed at inoculating 32 lakh people in six days.

An alleged robber has been killed in a gunfight between a group of robbers and members of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-7) in Chattogram’s Bayezid-Foujderhat link road area of Sitakunda upazila early today, according to law enforcers.

A Dhaka court today placed Junaid Karim Jimmy, costume designer and associate of film actress Pori Moni, on a three-day remand in a case filed against him with Banani Police Station under the Narcotics Control Act.

Nine patients died while undergoing treatment at the Covid units of two Khulna hospitals in 24 hours till 8am today.

Thirty ambulances from India -- gifted by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi -- reached Benapole land port this morning.

Bangalees who migrated to what is now the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand’s Udham Singh Nagar district are finally getting a chance to live without the tag of “East Pakistan” in caste certificates issued to them to avail social welfare schemes.

Two Myanmar citizens have been arrested in New York state for plotting with an arms dealer in Thailand - who sells weapons to the Burmese military - to kill or injure Myanmar's ambassador to the United Nations, US authorities said on Friday.

About 40 migrants were feared dead after a boat carrying about 50 people travelling from Western Sahara to Spain's Canary Islands capsized, a Spanish non-governmental organisation, said on Friday.

There are early signs that people who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 may be able to transmit the Delta variant of the virus as easily as those who have not, scientists at Public Health England (PHE) said on Friday.

Justice AKM Fazlur Rahman, a retired judge of the High Court and former chairman of Administrative Appellate Tribunal, died from Covid-19 on Thursday. He was 75.

India Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, in a letter to US President Richard Nixon, expressed her dissatisfaction over the initiative of deploying UN observers in India and Pakistan.