Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said that the August 21 grenade attack was carried out under direct patronage of the then BNP-Jamaat government to kill her and wipe out the top leadership of Awami League 18 years ago.

A fire broke out last night (August 19, 2022) at a packaging factory in Keraniganj upazila of Dhaka.

An eight-year-old madrasa student died this evening, hours after a covered-van hit him in Dhaka’s Jatrabari area.

At least 93 new Covid-19 cases were recorded in 24 hours till 8am today (August 19, 2022), said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

A Dhaka court today placed 10 people, including crane operator Md Al Amin Hossain alias Hridoy on different periods of remand in a case filed over the incident that resulted in the death of five people in the capital's Utrara on August 15.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (August 18, 2022) urged the Hindu community along with other believers and faiths in the country not to think of themselves as a minority, saying that all people irrespective of their religions will enjoy equal rights in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh Railway’s ticketing partner Shohoz-Synesis-Vincen-JV has issued around one crore train tickets in the last four months.

BNP today (August 18, 2022) demanded an independent investigation under the supervision of the United Nations on the incidents of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings.

A student of Dhaka University has filed a complaint alleging that a Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader made obscene gestures at her after entering the female washroom at Teacher-Student Centre (TSC) yesterday (August 17, 2022).

Adviser to the Prime Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury is optimistic of overcoming the ongoing power and energy crisis in the country created due to the Russia-Ukraine war.

A man was stabbed to death and at least seven others were injured during a clash between two groups of Awami League activists at Korail slum in Dhaka’s Banani area last night (August 17, 2022).

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) have arrested nine people in connection with the incident that left five people dead and two others injured after a segment of a box girder of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project fell from a crane on a private car in Dhaka’s Uttara on August 15, 2022.

The High Court today (August 17, 2022) wanted to know what facilities, including salary and allowances, Dhaka Wasa Managing Director Taqsem A Khan received from it in the last 13 years.

Twenty-two years have come and gone since her husband was shot to death, but Selina Akhter Lucky has all but given up hope for justice for the brutal murder.

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi has rejected a report of Transparency International Bangladesh’s (TIB) on Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB)’s Family Card Programme, stating that the report was not based on accurate information.

At least 212 new Covid-19 cases were recorded in 24 hours till 8am today, said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (August 17, 2022) reiterated her call to Myanmar to take back more than one million Rohingyas from their temporary shelter in Bangladesh.

Law Minister Anisul Huq today (August 16, 2022) criticised human rights activists of the country for expressing concern about the human rights situation in Bangladesh to United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet.

A local Awami League leader was stabbed to death and another injured in Dhaka’s Jatrabari this evening.

One dengue patient died while 128 more were admitted to different hospitals in the 24 hours till 8:00am today (August 16, 2022), according to the Directorate General of Health Services.