Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 3,50,000 yaba pills, worth Tk 10 crore, at Hnila union adjacent to Naf River under Teknaf upazila in Cox’s Bazar last night.

The High Court grants ad-interim bail to Abul Asad -- editor of Bangla daily Sangram -- for one year in a case filed under the Digital Security Act on charges of “circulating provocative report and sedition”.

The High Court has fixed September 29 for delivering its verdict on the rule over compensating Russel Sarker, who lost his leg after a bus of Green Line Paribahan ran him over in April 2018.

Doctors of Kuwait-Bangladesh Friendship Government Hospital started a sit-in protest at the hospital director’s office, demanding accommodation as they were driven out from a designated hotel this noon.

Many Saudi returnees -- stranded in the country for over seven months due to the pandemic – demonstrated for the third consecutive day today in Dhaka, demanding government intervention to ensure their return to the Gulf country before their visas expire on September 30.

Nationwide Vitamin A-plus campaign is set to be held from October 4 to 17, with the aim to administer vitamin capsules to children aged between six to 59 months.

The High Court will deliver its verdict on September 29 on the suo moto (voluntary) rule issued over compensating Jaha Alam who suffered in jail for three years instead of the real accused in several corruption cases.

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Thomas Andrews, has questioned Myanmar for not fulfilling its commitment over Rohingya repatriation.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) seized Tk 4 crore this morning from a bank account belonging to the brother-in-law of Cox's Bazar municipality mayor Mujibor Rahman.

Rapid Action Battalion has arrested a man along with 29 turtles from a bus on Patuakhali-Kuakata highway in Patuakhali last night.

Gonoshasthya Kendra Founder and trustee Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury has alleged that the government did not approve the coronavirus antibody and antigen kits developed by their organisation due to a “business motive”.

Economic activities in three upazilas of Kurigram and Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila did not escalate as anticipated despite the inauguration of the Sheikh Hasina Bridge over the Dharla river in 2018.

The reserve forest in Kuakata sea beach is disappearing day by day due to continuous erosion by the Bay. Sand is getting removed from the tree roots due to frequent tidal surges.

Bangladesh has requested the Saudi government to extend the tenure of ‘Iqama’ (valid work permit) and visa of Bangladeshi expatriates for three more months so that workers stuck here can return to the Gulf country.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says action will be taken against the former vice president (VP) of Dhaka University Central Students' Union (Ducsu) Nurul Haque Nur as per law in a rape case filed against him.

Seven people suffered burn injuries when they were melting iron at a steel mill in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila today.

Bangladesh today sent medicine and other medical supplies to Nepal to help the South Asian nation under the Saarc Covid-19 emergency fund as a gesture of friendship.

A housewife allegedly died by suicide after failing to pay installments of loans from some local NGOs in Hathazari upazila of Chattogram district early today.

Following a protest by migrant workers amid a shortage of tickets to Saudi Arabia, the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) says it will permit Saudi Airlines to operate more flights so that Bangladeshi expatriates can return to their workplaces in the Gulf country.

The chartered flight that was expected to repatriate a group of 170 Bangladeshis from war-torn Libya has been suspended today.