At least 19.26 hours and Tk 22.8 crore were lost to quorum crisis in the first five sessions of the 11th parliament, Transparency International Bangladesh said in a study today.

The Anti-Corruption Commission has filed a case against former lawmaker of Pirojpur, AKMA Awal, for amassing Tk 33 crore illegally.

The High Court today wanted to know the progress in implementation of the 25 recommendations made by the Anti-Corruption Commission to prevent corruption and irregularities in the health sector.

School closure due to the coronavirus pandemic will be extended and decisions regarding holding Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations will be announced next week -- Monday or Tuesday.

Another accused -- Tarequl Islam Tarek -- was also placed on a five-day remand in a case filed over the gang-rape of a woman at Murari Chand College in Sylhet on Friday.

The High Court has cleared the way for the authorities concerned to hold the Ordinary and Advanced Level examinations scheduled to start tomorrow.

Thirty-two 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).

Another accused -- Mahfuzur Rahman Masum-- is placed on a five-day remand in a case filed over the gang-rape of a woman at Murari Chand College in Sylhet on Friday.

A Barguna court sentenced six people including Ayesha Siddika Minni to death in Rifat Sharif murder case.

A union parishad chairman of Savar was arrested last night on extortion charges.

Security has been beefed up at Barguna Court premises, centring the verdict of Rifat Sharif murder case set to be delivered today.

Hundreds of flood-hit people have taken shelter at ten flood centres in three upazilas of the district amid a risk of Covid-19 infection It is hard to maintain social distancing as large numbers of people are staying in congested spaces.

At least three hundred trucks with imported cargo risk lives and property while crossing the Dudhkumar river every day, using the British-era Sonahat Bridge, which was supposed to retire 19 years back, but construction of a replacement bridge still remains uncertain.

Police have detained a 35-year-old man for the rape of a seven-year-old child in Khulna’s Rupsha upazila.

Police have recovered an unidentified body from a remote area near Fatikchhari upazila of Chattogram.

Deputy Inspector General (Chattogram Range) Anwar Hossain today termed the recent reshuffle in Cox’s Bazar police administration remarkable and said officers could expect newer postings instead of remaining in the same place.

A virtual seminar titled “Challenge and solution to prevent food loss and waste in Bangladesh” is held to mark the first International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste

Law enforcers allegedly tortured activists of Bangladesh Chhatra Union in police custody after picking them up from in front of Viqarunnisa School in Dhaka, where the BCU activists were drawing graffiti.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Bangladesh government today signed an agreement for $3 million in grant for procuring urgent medical supplies including the Covid-19 vaccine.

Rapid Action Battalion today arrested another accused of the case filed over the gang-rape of a woman on Friday at Murari Chand (MC) College in Sylhet.