A Dhaka court today sentenced three policemen -- including former sub-inspector of Pallabi Police Station Jahidur Rahman -- to life imprisonment and two other accused to seven years' jail in the case filed over the custodial death of Ishtiaque Hossain Jonny in 2014.

Six persons have been killed as an ambulance collided head on with a covered van in Ujirpur upazila of Barishal.

A court in Jamalpur today sentenced a man to death and five others to life imprisonment in a case filed over the murder of one Momin in Sadar upazila of the district in 2007.

The number of global under-five deaths dropped to its lowest point on record last year -- down to 5.2 million from 12.5 million in 1990 – but Covid-19 could reverse decades of this progress toward eliminating preventable child deaths, global health and welfare agencies warned today.

Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmad today told the parliament that the number of Bangladeshi migrant workers returning from abroad due to the global coronavirus pandemic is not “alarming”.

Forty-one 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).

Four accused in Major (retd) Sinha murder case gave confessional statements in front of a Cox's Bazar court today.

A tribunal in Dhaka has set September 15 to decide whether it will frame charges against all the 25 accused in Buet student Abrar Fahad murder case filed last year.

The High Court today directed Titas Gas Ltd to give Tk 5 lakh as initial compensation in seven days to each family of the victims, who died and suffered injuries in the Narayanganj mosque blast.

At least 10 people including women and children drowned while 10 other passengers remained missing in a collision between two trawlers in a river at Netrakona's Kalmakanda upazila today.

Saying that perpetrators must face music, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today told Parliament that the government is thoroughly investigating to identify the masterminds behind the attack on Ghoraghat Upazila Nirbahi Officer Wahida Khanam.

Expelled Jubo Mohila League leader Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman today claimed innocence after a Dhaka tribunal read out charges from statements of prosecution witnesses to them in an arms case.

A tribunal in Dhaka today deferred to September 20 the hearing of a case filed against Md Majnu over rape of a Dhaka University student in the capital's Kurmitola area.

Noted actor KS Firoz, who had worked dominantly in theatre, radio, television and cinema, has passed away at 6:20am today at Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Dhaka.

The High Court questioned the inaction and apathy of the authorities concerned in removing “obscene and immoral” video contents from the OTT (over-the-top) web-based platforms across the country.

Peter Szijjarto, minister of foreign affairs and trade of Hungary, will arrive in Dhaka tomorrow morning on a brief official visit as the two countries want to boost bilateral ties.

Police arrested a youth for allegedly attempting to rape a schoolgirl in Netrakona’s Kalmakanda upazila on Monday.

Two minor cousins drowned in a pond in Sadar upazila yesterday.

Farmer Jinnat Ali of Dhitpur village in Sadar upazila of the district cultivated sugarcane on his three and half bighas of land this year and the yield had been good. But the recent flood damaged his sugarcane fields fully.

Growers of vegetable saplings in two unions of Nazirpur and Nesarabad upazilas are counting huge losses due to the flood this year.