Fire broke out at two adjacent knitting factories in Narayanganj Sadar upazila this evening.

Customs Intelligence officials seized around 495 mobile phone sets worth Tk 3 crores at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka this morning.

Ruling Awami League MP Mahbubul Alam Hanif, also the party’s joint general secretary, has tested positive for Covid-19 today.

US-Bangla Airlines has announced a new route which will operate direct flights to Muscat from Sylhet from November 17 onwards.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan today said those responsible for the death of Barishal Metropolitan Police’s Senior ASP Anisul Karim will be brought to justice.

Department of Environment (DoE) in Chattogram today sealed off International Tobacco Industries Limited for running operation without environmental clearance certificate.

The government is going to start inspecting approved and unapproved private hospitals and diagnostic centres across the country on an urgent basis, said Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam, director general of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), today.

By-elections in two parliamentary constituencies -- Dhaka-18 and Sirajganj -- will be held on Thursday with participation of the two major parties, Awami League (AL) and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), along with contenders from other political parties.

Around 40 robbers with weapons are expected to surrender to Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Chattogram tomorrow.

Two boys drowned in Rangamati’s Kaptai Lake when they were taking a bath there this noon.

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

The High Court today called for the record of a corruption case in which lawmaker and Awami League leader Haji Mohammad Salim was sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment.

A Dhaka court today rejected a bail petition of EnamulHaque Arman, a close aide of expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat, in a Tk 195 crore money laundering case.

A woman was killed in front of her daughter after a bus hit her in Dhaka's Matuail area this morning.

Three people were killed as a truck hit a motorcycle carrying them, on Tangail-Aricha Regional Highway in Nagpur upazila of Tangail this morning.

Two members of Rapid Action Battalion, who were picked up by India’s Border Security Force (BSF), were released last night after nine hours.

Two people were shot dead by unidentified criminals last night at Gorjonia area under Wagja union of Kaptai upazila in Rangamati, police said.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against lawmaker couple Shahid Islam Papul and his wife Selina Islam for laundering about Tk 148 crore and illegal wealth worth around Tk 2.31 crore.

Police arrested a man, believed to be a member of an international gold smuggling syndicate, in possession of eight gold bars and gold ornaments from Riazuddin Bazar area in Chattogram city last night.

A church was ransacked and at least one person sustained injury during an attack on Ichhachhara Khasi village in Kulaura upazila on Monday night -- several hours after the upazila administration in a raid evicted illegal occupants from a betel leaf garden belonging to an indigenous family at Katabari Paan Jum.