A Thakurgaon court yesterday sentenced a man to life term imprisonment and another to six months in connection with a case for killing a man over land dispute in 2006.

A man was killed in lightning strike in Pirganj upazila of the district on Saturday afternoon.

Police recovered the throat-slit body of a housewife from Pashchim Bazar area in Netrakona’s Purbadhala upazila yesterday morning.

Park Market, the main kitchen market in Tangail town, sees no development in 33 years, causing immense sufferings to the buyers and sellers.

Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh has lifted coronavirus-induced restrictions for Biman Bangladesh Airlines and Saudi Arabian Airlines so that they are able to carry passengers on every seat when operating flights to different destinations in Saudi Arabia.

Father of a Chakma student has claimed that his daughter was raped by the headmaster of her school in Langadu upazila of Rangamati.

Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque has said Bangladesh is now largely safe from the Covid-19 pandemic.

The High Court in a full text of a verdict has observed that corrupt judges must be immediately removed in order to keep all other judges of the judiciary free from graft.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate the World Children’s Day and Child Rights Week 2020 virtually from her official Gono Bhaban residence in the city tomorrow.

A total of 111 Bangladeshi students have been selected for the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree scholarship under the Erasmus+ programme this year, said a delegation of the European Union to Bangladesh.

An association of owners and workers of goods-laden transport vehicles have called for a 48-hour strike across the country on October 12 and 13 to press home their nine-point demand, including amendment to the Road Transport Act.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has said he stands ready to work with Bangladesh to better align the two countries' strategies and jointly promote the construction of the Belt and Road initiative to take the China-Bangladesh cooperation to new heights, reports Xinhua.

A woman and her daughter were gang-raped by some youths in Chunarughat upazila of Habiganj district on Friday night.

After a five-year long investigation, Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police today pressed charges against 13 suspects, including sacked army major Syed Ziaul Haq who is considered the mastermind, in the case filed over the killing of blogger Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy in August 2015.

Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder, a sitting judge of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court, has been appointed as member of Bangladesh Judicial Service Commission (BJSC) for the next five years.

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

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) will issue a red alert on Interpol by this week to catch the Bangladeshi human traffickers based in Libya, who were responsible for the massacre that happened back in May.

Police have arrested two accused of a case filed for the rape of a twelve-year-old girl at Sardarergaon village in Sylhet Sadar upazila.

Cartoonists Rights Network International (CRNI) has presented its annual “Robert Russell Courage in Cartooning Award” to Ahmed Kabir Kishore, who was arrested under the Digital Security Act in Bangladesh over five months ago.

Two Rohingyas were killed in a reported “gunfight” between two rival groups in Ukhia upazila of Cox’s Bazar early today.