Most of the banks are keeping their ATM (automated teller machine) booth operation suspended for 6-8 hours at night following a hacking alert issued by the Bangladesh Bank in late August.

A local Jubo League leader escaped from police custody in Sadar upazila of Barguna last night hours after police had arrested him with 10 grammes of cannabis.

Two women have been killed, seven other people injured and a child has gone missing after a head-on collision between a speedboat and a fishing trawler on the Teknaf-Saint Martin's Island route this afternoon.

A mass grave of 26 martyrs was formally recognised by the district administration in Bogura’s Sadar upazila, nearly 49 years after the war of independence.

Farmers in Kurigram and Lalmonirhat districts are losing interest in jute cultivation due to rising production cost and lower selling price.

A legal notice has been sent to the Election Commission (EC) and Somoy Television over publishing a report over Dr Sabrina’s dual National Identity Card (NID) scam involving former National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairman Dr Mizanur Rahman.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today said the South Asian Regional Center of Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) in Dhaka will be a milestone for international partnership.

The power supply, which had been disrupted in the entire Mymensingh division following a fire at Mymensingh city's Kewatkhali Power Grid, was restored in three districts -- Jamalpur, Sherpur and Netrakona -- at 5:30pm.

One more person, who suffered severe injuries in the blast at a Narayanganj mosque, died at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery this evening.

The Ministry of Primary and Mass Education has given guidelines for reopening schools -- in compliance with public health and hygiene rules during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The government has decided to set up five dedicated light engineering industrial parks in Dhaka, Narayanganj, Jashore, Bogura and Narsingdi districts to utilise the potential of the domestic light engineering industry for national economic development.

The physical condition of Ghoraghat Upazila Nirbahi Officer Wahida Khanam, who is undergoing treatment at National Institute of Neurosciences & Hospital, has improved significantly, doctors say.

It was in the 1990s that my Mejho Mama (my mother’s second brother, who is no more) took us to the Russian Cultural Centre in Dhaka to watch a documentary film, “Muktir Gaan”. Then a teenager, my heart was always ready to fall in love. And I did. He was the narrator of the story -- the young man with the black-rimmed, thick glasses and a determined jaw, the one who could not join the frontline freedom fighters because of his myopia. I could feel his heartbreak, the emotions he described on setting his foot on the liberated part of his motherland, my beloved Bangladesh.

The government has designated the Central Police Hospital at Rajarbagh in Dhaka for Covid-19 certificates for police personnel who wish to travel abroad.

Chattogram Port Authority (CPA) fined a vessel owner Tk one lakh for illegally dismantling a vessel on Patenga beach.

Civil society members have condemned and protested an attack on a photography exhibition on extrajudicial killings organized by Drik Gallery on September 4.

India’s Border Security Force today said they have apprehended a Bangladeshi national when he was allegedly trying to smuggle cattle through a river route in Malda district of India’s West Bengal.

Parliament today passed a bill aimed at forming Bangladesh Reference Institute for Chemical Measurements to provide chemical metrology services across the country.

Thirty-six 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).

The High Court today summarily rejected a writ petition that sought its directive upon the government to form a high-standing committee to conduct an inquiry into the deaths of 84 wild elephants in Chattogram region in the last 19 years.