Police arrested a man for keeping a copy of the holy Quran at Uttar Palpara Kali Mandir in Patuakhali’s Bauphal upazila early yesterday.

A school head teacher died and her husband was injured in a fire caused by a leaking gas cylinder at their home in Moulvibazar’s Barlekha upazila early yesterday.

The draft data protection act should be amended to ensure that citizen’s rights to privacy are not violated, Amnesty International and Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) said in separate statements.

Detectives arrested five students of Dhaka College in different areas of the capital on charges of killing the delivery person of a courier service during a recent clash between students and shopkeepers of New Market.

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said India will take lead in structuring partnership for production, transmission and trade of energy, especially hydropower, between Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal.

The toll of the under-construction Padma bridge may be at least 1.5 times higher than the average toll paid on ferries plying the Padma.

A huge number of city dwellers left the capital yesterday as it was their last working day before Eid-ul-Fitr.

Bangladesh Railway has incurred Tk 13,492.70 crore in losses in 12 years between fiscal 2008-09 and FY2019-20, according to BR documents.

India is getting too hot too early, raising the risk of fires, Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned yesterday, as New Delhi sweltered in extreme heat and a burning landfill on the outskirts of the capital spewed toxic smoke into the air.

By February of this year, 58 percent of the US population -- more than 190 million people -- had been infected with Covid, according to an antibody survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published Tuesday.

India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is expected to land in Dhaka today for his on a one-day visit.

Hundreds of Eid holidaymakers are suffering at ferry terminals as long tailbacks causing them wait for hours.

Five people were killed and five others injured in road accidents in three districts yesterday, according to reports from our correspondents.

The holy Shab-e-Qadr, also known as Lailatul Qadr, when the first verses of the holy Quran were revealed to Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH), will be observed across the country tonight.

This year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations will begin on June 19, about three and a half months later than usual.

China has confirmed the first known human case of the H3N8 strain of avian flu, but health authorities say there is a low risk of widespread transmission among people.

Israeli air strikes near Damascus yesterday killed nine combatants, among them five Syrian soldiers, in the deadliest such raid since the start of 2022, a war monitor said.

A girl was killed and 15 people were injured as nor’westers lashed Parbatipur, Nawabganj and Birampur upazilas of Dinajpur and sadar upazila of Lalmonirhat Tuesday night.

Had the home ministry provided the foreign ministry with necessary information on alleged extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances in time, the US sanctions on Rab could have been avoided, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam told a parliamentary watchdog.

The airfare for Hajj was yesterday fixed at Tk 1.4 lakh this year, up 12,000 from 2019, when Bangladeshis were last allowed in Saudi Arabia for the pilgrimage.