Another doctor who was diagnosed with coronavirus died at a hospital in Dhaka today.

The High Court will pass an order tomorrow on a writ petition seeking its directive upon the authorities concerned to give Tk 50 lakh each as compensation to the families of the victims, who died and suffered injuries in the Narayanganj mosque blast.

To encourage engineering research in the country, a bill is passed in the parliament.

A tribunal in Dhaka has concluded recording the statements of witnesses in an arms case against expelled leader of Jubo Mohila League Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman.

A seven-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a teenage boy in Jashore’s Chaugachha upazila yesterday.

Eighty-four more trains -- mostly local and commuter -- are going to be added to the fleet between September 10 and 16, as Bangladesh Railway (BR) is trying to normalise service.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a petition with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, challenging a High Court order that granted anticipatory bail to Toufique Imrose Khalidi, editor-in-chief of online news portal bdnews24.com, in a corruption case.

Three people, including a man and his minor son, were killed in separate incidents of lightning strikes in Sonatala upazila yesterday.

At least 15 people, including six bullet-hit, were injured in a clash between two groups of ruling party men over capture of a waterbody at Bhatikoya village in Sujanagar upazila on Sunday evening.

A court here on Sunday a sentenced a man to death and two others to life imprisonment for killing a man in Bochaganj upazila in 2012.

Jute acreage is increasing in the district every year as growers, inspired by higher prices, are bringing more lands under cultivation of the cash crop.

The number of Covid-19 patients in eight districts of Rangpur division is on the rise, especially after the Eid-ul-Adha.

Bangladesh Railways has decided to sell half of all train tickets through station counters instead of selling all tickets online from September 12.

Proshanta Kumar Halder, who was allegedly involved with the embezzlement of huge amount of money from the International Leasing and Financial Services Limited (ILFSL), a non-banking financial institution, has said he would return to the country to return the money and settle the transactions and liabilities with the company if he gets proper security of his life.

The government has decided to appoint Md Golam Sarwar as the next High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Malaysia.

Facebook authority has appointed Sabhanaz Rashid Diya as a public policy manager and she is going to look after all matters pertaining to Bangladesh

Beximco Synthetics, a polyester filament yarn manufacturer, applied for delisting from the stock market.

The United Kingdom has announced that it would fund one British and two Bangladeshi universities for conducting a research project to increase vaccine access in developing economies including Bangladesh.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called for discarding the term “martial law” from military lexicon, saying that it never brought any good to the country or the armed forces.

Two more murder cases were filed against former officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das and a few others including policemen with a court in Cox’s Bazar today.