A Bangladeshi medical officer at Jazira Upazila Health Complex in Shariatpur district has secured the highest number in the UK’s MRCP examination this year.

Customs officials at Benapole Customs House enforced a three-hour strike for the second consecutive day today protesting an assault of one of their fellows in Pangaon Customs House in Dhaka.

Eminent philosopher and a professor at Dhaka University Professor Hasna Begum today died of Covid-19 at a private hospital. She was 85.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the government is pledge-bound to ensure peace across the country, including the Chattogram Hill Tracts (CHT).

India is considering a plan to build a 10 gigawatts (GW) hydropower project in a remote eastern state, an Indian official said on Tuesday, following reports that China could construct dams on a section of the Brahmaputra river.

Dhaka has urged Doha to take urgent measures so that the stranded Bangladeshi expatriates can return to work in Qatar.

Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) Chairman Engineer Belayet Hossain today said the 1,320 MW capacity Maitree Super Thermal Power Plant at Rampal in Bagerhat is expected to start power generation by the end of 2021.

The admission tests for 2020-2021 academic session in 19 public and science and technology universities will be held under the “cluster system”.

A US public health expert has suggested that reopening of schools in Bangladesh could be considered as “school closure (during Covid-19 pandemic) has clear negative impacts on child health, education and development.”

Bangladesh will organise a world peace conference next year, marking the 50th year of the country’s Liberation War and birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, as part of promoting a culture of peace and tolerance.

Thirty-one people have died from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) today.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today extended its chamber judge's order that stayed a High Court directive which asked Titas Gas Ltd to give Tk 5 lakh as initial cost to each family of the victims who died and suffered burn injuries in Narayanganj mosque blast.

The High Court today questioned a lower court order that granted bail to four accused in a Tk 4 crore money laundering case against former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha.

Police have arrested a couple in Bandarban for allegedly smuggling gold bars worth Tk three crores from Myanmar to Bangladesh.

Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) today gave approval to the 3rd submarine cable project in the country at a cost of Tk 693 crore.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today ruled that life imprisonment means the convict will have to be in jail for 30 years and will get remission and deduction benefits under relevant sections of the Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) if it’s not specifically mentioned in the verdict that the convict is sentenced to imprisonment until natural death.

Police early today arrested a man on charges of raping a 17-year-old with autism six months back in Rajshahi’s Paba upazila.

Joshi Chakma, a resident of Khabang Pujje area in khagrachhari town, has changed her lot by making and selling banana chips amid the pandemic.

It is essentially a classic example of putting the cart before the horse.

The Public Service Commission (PSC) has issued circulars of the 42nd and the 43rd Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examinations.