The Supreme Court has refused to allow former BNP state minister for civil aviation Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin and his son, both sentenced to jail in a corruption case, to move appeals before the court without surrendering to the lower court.

Malaysia has agreed to reopen its labour market for Bangladeshi migrant workers soon, according to a press release of expatriates’ welfare ministry.

Indian High Commissioner Vikram K Doraiswami today urged Bangladesh to reduce all general charges for using Bangladeshi airports by Indian airlines for the time being as Covid-19 has affected Indian airlines like other air operators in the world.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today renewed her call to the international community, including the United States, to help Bangladesh rehabilitate Rohingyas in their homeland, Myanmar.

The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has warned all immigration points of the country to watch out for Sub-Inspector Akber Hossain, who is on the run since the death of Rayhan Ahmed at a Sylhet hospital after being allegedly tortured in police custody.

A mobile court of Cox’s Bazar district administration was barred allegedly by encroachers when it went to remove the illegal structures from Sugandha Point of the beach today.

Department of Environment, Chattogram fined a construction firm Tk 50,000 for razing 57,000 cubic feet of a hill at Kaokhali upazila of Rangamati today.

A faction of Bangladesh Sadharon Chhatra Odhikar Songrokkhon Parishad announced a new 22-member convener committee after declaring its joint conveners Nurul Haque Nur -- also Ducsu former vice-president -- and Muhammad Rashed Khan as "unwanted" today.

A Tangail court sentences five people to death for gang-raping a madrasa student in 2012.

Stressing the need for educating children on gender equality at home, CRI Trustee and Co-chairman and Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) Thematic Ambassador Saima Wazed Hossain has said she wants everyone in the country to be taught the way she teaches her children that women and men are no different.

For the first time in the country, Nagad, the mobile financial arm of the Postal Department, has brought down the cash-out charge to Tk 9.99 per Tk 1,000, the lowest rate ever in the country’s burgeoning mobile financial service segment.

Agriculture Minister Dr Muhammad Abdur Razzaque today said rice might be imported from neighbouring countries, if required, to tackle any possible food crisis.

Criminal Investigation Department arrested a member of a fraud gang which produced counterfeit revenue stamps and non-judicial stamps and circulate those in the market.

Three policemen were injured as miscreants attacked them while arresting an accused in a case filed over a clash in Baniachang upazila of Habiganj last night.

The Election Commission (EC) today filed a case against independent lawmaker Mujibur Rahman Chowdhury, popularly known as Nixon Chowdhury, for violating the electoral code of conduct.

The United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees will co-host a donor conference on October 22 to promote support for Rohingya refugees and host countries.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the administration to take extensive measures against rape and raise public awareness against such incidents in society.

The Directorate of Registration has collected Tk 2,194.44 crore as revenue through conducting registrations of deeds in the last three months of July, August and September.

US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen E Biegun this morning paid tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

The US considers Bangladesh as the centerpiece in its Indo-Pacific Strategy, said US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Beigun.