Bad weather has stranded nearly 400 tourists on Saint Martin’s Island. They could not return yesterday as the well-marked low over the northwest Bay and adjoining west-central Bay moved north-westwards and intensified into a depression over the North-west Bay and adjoining area.

Fourteen 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).

Members of National Security Intelligence today claimed to have arrested a Nigerian national who used to cheat people by identifying himself as a representative of Coca-Cola in Bangladesh.

A mobile court backed by Rapid Action Battalion yesterday sentenced different terms to a unani medicine factory owner and two staffers for producing medicines in an unhygienic environemnt and without permission from the concerned authorities in Dhaka's Turag area.

Launch services on Barishal’s internal routes were suspended today morning due to inclement weather.

Patuakhali administration has prepared 800 shelters in the area for combating possible cyclone triggered by the depression at Bay.

Criminals stabbed a batter-run easy-bike driver to death in Kishoreganj Sadar upazila on Tuesday night and tried to snatch his vehicle.

The country’s largest seed production farm in Dashmina upazila is facing threat of erosion by the Tetulia river. About 258 acres of land of the seed farm have already been washed away by the river in the last three years.

Vagrants, homeless, slum dwellers, drug addicts, street urchins, differently abled or just a poor hungry soul in Bogura town -- all know that they will not have to go to sleep at night on an empty stomach.

It is said that the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is now going through the most difficult time since its inception in 1978. The party chairperson Khaleda Zia has been facing a number of cases and was also convicted. The physically ill former prime minister is now confined to her Gulshan home. BNP’s acting chairman Tarique Rahman is in London. In such a critical time, secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir is assigned to hold the party together.

At least five passengers went missing after a speedboat capsized in Agunmukha river in Patuakhali’s Rangabali upazila.

A man stabbed a woman after failing to rape her at Halsa village in Sadar upazila of Jashore yesterday night.

In a major reshuffle, 19 police officers, including the Sylhet metropolitan police commissioner, have been transferred today.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today upheld the High Court order which granted anticipatory bail to lawmaker Mujibur Rahman Chowdhury, known as Nixon Chowdhury, in a case over violations of the electoral code of conduct.

A Bangladeshi expatriate worker died on board an aircraft while returning to Dhaka from Kuwait this afternoon.

The government is going to upgrade the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) to a 1,200-bed hospital soon as part of its move to improve the healthcare services in the country, said Health Minister Zahid Maleque today.

Water transport workers, who have been observing work abstention -- suspending cargo handling at Chattogram and Mongla ports' outer anchorage -- have agreed to withdraw their strike and resumed work.

US-Bangla Airlines will resume its flights on Chennai and Kolkata routes from October 28.

A Nepalese company--Anmol Healthcare Ltd--will buy two million shots of BANCOVID, a vaccine candidate, developed by Bangladeshi company Globe Biotech Ltd if it passes trials, said the company officials.

At least three people were killed and 20 others injured as a Dhaka-bound bus fell into a roadside ditch in Manikganj's Singair upazila this afternoon.