The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police today arrested three men from the capital's Pallabi area on charge of embezzling over Tk 6 crore from 1,427 people by scamming them using a multi-level marketing scheme.

The UN has expressed concerns over the human rights situation, including violations of right to political participation of minority groups – Rohingyas and ethnic Rakhines -- ahead of the general elections in Myanmar on November 8.

A case was filed today in connection with the rape of a college student in Barishal’s Agailjhara upazila on October 24.

Indian air carrier Vistara today announced it would launch flight services to Bangladesh from November 5 under the recently signed bilateral air bubble agreement, reports our New Delhi correspondent.

The Australian High Commission in Dhaka today announced the release of Australia's Covid-19 Development Response Plan for Bangladesh for 2020- 2021, saying the country appreciates its strong development, people-to-people and trade ties with Bangladesh.

Global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows fell 49 percent in the first half of 2020 compared to 2019, due to the economic fallout from Covid-19, reveals the latest Global Investment Trends Monitor released today by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

Twenty 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).

A Barguna court today sentenced six out of the 14 juvenile accused to 10 years’ imprisonment in the much-talked-about Rifat Sharif murder case.

Rail communication of Khulna with other parts of the country has been restored after around 10 hours of suspension following a collision between two freight trains in Kotchandpur upazila of Jhenidah.

Local administration has imposed Section 144 in Kalia municipality area of Narail after two rival groups of Bangladesh Chhatra League announced to hold processions and rallies in the area at the same time today.

A Dhaka court today withdrew its decision of pronouncing the judgment of the case filed against five members of banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) over the murder of blogger Oyasiqur Rahman Babu in 2015.

After seven months of closure due to coronavirus pandemic, the Forest Department is expected to reopen the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest and a Unesco World Heritage Site, soon to tourists.

Rail communications of Khulna with the other parts of the country remained suspended since early today, following a collision between two freight trains in Kotchandpur upazila of Jhenidah.

Four people were killed and two others injured after a truck collided head-on with an auto-rickshaw at Nandirpara Station in Cox’s Bazar’s Pekua upazila today.

Thanks to the indifference of the authorities, a bridge in Jhenidah Sadar upazila has been causing sufferings to thousands of locals for a year now.

Some 50 villages in Netrakona’s Khaliajury upazila are under threat of erosion due to heavy rain accompanied by gusty wind and high waves in the haor waters.

Police arrested three teenage boys for their alleged involvement in attempting to snatch money from a pedestrian in Sadar upazila early Sunday.

Police recovered the throat-slit body of a trader from Bhairab river near Churamankathi area of Jashore on Sunday.

Azim Uddin from Handial village has been catching fish at Chalanbeel in the village, under Chatmohar upazila of Pabna, over the last one decade.

An assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of police in Rangpur was suspended today for his alleged involvement in gang-raping a ninth-grader in Rangpur.