The High Court today gave one and a half months to the judicial inquiry committee formed by the court to complete probe into the police actions regarding the arrest of three men and their subsequent confessions to raping and killing a girl, who turned out to be alive later.

Making it compulsory for all migrant workers to wear wristbands would be a discriminatory move, says Tenaganita, a non-governmental organisation in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

Thirty 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).

Seventy-one percent of female garment workers use family planning methods, according to a survey conducted in factories of five industrial areas -- Chattogram, Dhaka city, Gazipur, Narayanganj, and Savar.

The High Court today wanted to know what steps have been taken to arrest Proshanta Kumar Halder, who fled the country after allegedly siphoning out around Tk 10,200 crore from some non-banking financial institutions.

Some parts of Sylhet and Sunamganj districts are still without electricity as power supply is yet to be restored in the areas -- 49 hours after a fire broke out at the 132/33 KV substation in Sylhet’s Kumargaon on Tuesday morning.

The government is constantly working to increase the capacity of the fire service and as a part of implementing the plan, steps have already been taken to set up fire stations in all upazilas, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said today.

Nine people were killed and seven others injured when a Bhotbhoti, a locally modified vehicle, also carrying rice overturned and plunged into a roadside ditch in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj district early today.

A housewife was killed by her drug addicted husband allegedly for money in Joypurhat Sadar upazila on Tuesday.

The body of a 17-day-old girl child, who was stolen from her house allegedly by one of her neighbours early Monday, was found floating in a pond in Morelganj upazila of the district yesterday.

Over the last four years, the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) officials visited the two-kilometre dirt road -- in Shukurullahgaon village of Kamalganj upazila -- and took measurements three times, but did not repair it.

Two years into construction of a nursing institute in the district town, it is yet to become operational, thanks to the negligence of the authorities concerned.

Renowned stage and TV actor, director Aly Zaker has been admitted to a hospital in Dhaka after he fell ill.

The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (Amendment) Bill, 2020 was passed in Parliament today to empower the BERC to change tariff more than once per financial year.

Labourers have found two ancient pitchers while working at Radhar Vita graveyard in Rajshahi city's Kathalbaria area.

Although the intensity of Covid-19 pandemic has decreased a bit at present, it is likely to increase in the coming winter, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told parliament today.

The parliament has passed the Sunamganj Science and Technology University Bill 2020 to set up an university in the haor area.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said he is surprised to see the number of government officials who siphoned money to Toronto in Canada, outnumbering politicians.

The Police Cyber Support for Women, a special wing that was formed to only deal with cybercrimes on women has received around 691 complaints in the last 48-hours.

Electricity service has resumed in some areas of Sylhet city around 31 hours after most parts of Sylhet and Sunamganj districts plunged into darkness.