Police yesterday arrested a man in connection with a case for raping his 15-year-old step-daughter in Bagerhat Sadar upazila on Saturday.

After seven months of closure, the shrine of Baul king Fakir Lalon Shah at Chheuria in Kushtia has been reopened for the Lalon followers and visitors.

Lemon growers in Tangail have incurred huge losses after their lemon orchards were hit hard by the recent devastating and prolonged floods as well as heavy rains.

Everyone in Laxmandia village, in Shailakupa upazila, feels proud when visitors from faraway places come looking for “Gaach Bari” in their village.

The government today urged the country’s people not to pay heed to any rumours or any provocative speech.

A journalist of a local news portal in Chattogram, who went missing on Thursday morning, was found in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila this evening.

Expatriates sent home USD 2.11 billion in remittances in October this year, which is 28.62 percent higher than the same month last year, a top official of Bangladesh Bank has said. With this, the total remittance earnings from first four months of the ongoing fiscal year have been USD 8.83 billion, which is 43.42 percent higher compared to the same period in the previous fiscal year.

Education Minister Dipu Moni today called upon the authorities of different public universities to hold combined admission tests.

Bangladesh Bank has further relaxed repayment of loans by allowing the borrowers to make their due payments to financial institutions in more installments, considering the Covid-19 fallout.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today stayed until November 8 a High Court order that granted bail to contractor Asif Hossain in a case filed over corruption in purchasing furniture and household items for officials of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna.

The government has spent an average of Tk15,000 for regular Covid-19 patients and Tk 47,000 for Covid-19 patients in ICU beds, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said today.

A 35-year old house help and a 12-year old school girl were raped in two separate incidents in Chattogram’s Boalkhali upazila.

The Holy Quran was not demeaned by Abu Yunus Md Shahidunnabi Jewel who was beaten and later burnt to death, said Al Mahmud Fauzul Kabir, head of the three-member National Human Rights Commission's investigation team.

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

No one will be allowed to enter any market, mall and shop without mask from today, Bangladesh Dokan Malik Samity has announced.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says in the wake of resurgence of Covid-19 transmission across the globe, the time has come to reintroduce coronavirus tests for every inbound passenger at all ports.

A Dhaka court today sentenced three transport workers of Hanif Paribahan to death in a case filed over murder of private university student Saidur Rahman Payel in 2018.

Some 28 percent youths, aged above 18, left studies to support their families amid the Covid-19 pandemic in the country, according to an online survey conducted by Citizen’s Platform for SDGs, Bangladesh.

Team Bangladesh has become the champion among 174 countries in a robotics competition titled 'First Global Challenge' for school and higher school students.

Bangladesh National Human Rights Commission has stared investigation into the death Younus Muhammad Shahidunnabi Jewel, who was beaten and burnt to death by a mob in Lalmonirhaton Thursday following a rumour of demeaning the Holy Quran.