Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested an alleged ringleader of a Kuwait-based human trafficking gang in Narsingdi’s Madhabdi upazila.

India reported its highest single-day death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic yesterday, reporting 1,099 fatalities as coronavirus pandemic continued to wreak havoc across the globe.

As many as 99 percent of potential migrants will opt to stay at home if there are better job opportunities in Bangladesh, says a report of International Organisation for Migration.

Malaysian police did not bring any charge against the young Bangladeshi Rayhan Kabir who was arrested in Malaysia and he will be sent back to Bangladesh soon.

Thailand’s premier yesterday played down the spread of the country’s democracy movement to high schools where students have been raising a three-fingered salute as a protest symbol against the military-aligned government.

The trial of the money laundering case filed against former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and 10 others started at a Dhaka court yesterday with deposition of the complainant.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday it was concerned that the novel coronavirus spread was being driven by people in their 20s, 30s and 40s, many of whom were unaware they were infected, posing a danger to vulnerable groups.

A mother of three was confined to a house for three days and gang-raped in a village in Sirajganj’s Ullapara, police said yesterday.

The High Court yesterday questioned the legality of Harun Ur Rashid’s parliament membership as the BNP leader has been convicted and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment in a corruption case.

New areas in the southern region have been inundated, while the flood situation remains unchanged in the northern part of the country and some other districts.

For half a century scientists feared that the Somali elephant shrew had vanished from the face of the Earth. No one had seen so much as a whisker.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has been keeping well for the last few days after undergoing gallbladder surgery in London on July 30, a health bulletin issued by his personal physician Dr Nurul Islam says today.

The BNP yesterday alleged that the government has chosen the path of “nasty politics to distort history” in order to cling to power.

Bus owners now want to operate their vehicles at full capacity despite the fact that the numbers of new infections and deaths from Covid-19 are still on the rise in the country.

Md Jafar, who was killed in a police “shootout” along with two others in Chakaria upazila of Cox’s Bazar on July 31, used to run a drug syndicate in Bandarban, Patiya and Chakaria, intelligence sources say.

An ultra-modern vertical farm in the middle of the desert stands as a testament to Dubai’s determination to spark a “green revolution” to overcome its dependence on food imports.

The three teenage boys of Jashore Juvinile Correction Centre died of serious head injuries an autopsy report said yesterday.

India’s Border Security Force rescued a Bangladeshi woman, who was trafficked into India, from West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, an official said yesterday.

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose first term in office ended in part for health reasons, sparked fresh speculation yesterday about his well-being with an unexpected, hours-long hospital visit.

Suspected yaba smugglers fired at members of Border Guard Bangladesh near the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Bandarban’s Naikhyangchhari upazila on Sunday night, BGB said in a press release.