A local Jubo League leader has been shot dead by unidentified men at Ching Kyaw Karbari Para of Bagmara area under Bandarban Sadar upazila.

A floating hospital, jointly set up by Bidyanondo Foundation and Bangladesh Coast Guard, started its journey by providing treatment to underprivileged people of Banishanta Polli in Dacope upazila of Khulna today.

The High Court today questioned the legality of the Public Service Commission's (PSC) recommendation of appointing 5,054 senior staff nurses.

A neighbour torched the houses of a late freedom fighter and his younger brother in Bogura’s Sariakandi upazila last night.

Information Minister Hasan Mahmud today said online editions of newspapers will be registered on a priority basis.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said Bangladesh would provide 50,000 tonnes of fertilizer to Nepal responding to a call by her Nepalese counterpart KP Sharma Oli as the landlocked country was exposed to a critical shortage of the crucial agriculture input.

Supreme Court lawyer SM Munir has been appointed as additional attorney general for moving cases on behalf of the state.

The High Court today directed the judge of special tribunal-2 of Dhaka to conduct an inquiry into the allegation that an innocent day labourer, Md Liton, is serving a jail sentence instead of a convicted man of the same name in Bhola’s Lalmohan upazila.

Bangladesh has established minimum requirements for the production of non-medical fabric masks for community use, taking an important step towards safe and regulated production of masks and providing essential guidelines to local manufacturers, the RMG sector and NGOs to join the fight against Covid-19.

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) approves a project for upgrading the Sylhet-Tamabil highway into four-lane, including a separate slow-moving vehicular traffic lane (SMVT).

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) today said the recent directive of the Ministry of Information to register all online news portals and online editions of national newspapers and television channels would ensure full government control and interference by it over the media.

The Department of Environment (DoE) Chattogram fined five businesses, including a shipbreaking yard, a total of Tk 10,30,500 for operating without clearance certificates as well as damaging the environment by releasing untreated waste.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today paid her last respects to former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee before his funeral.

The officer-in-charge of Narayanganj Sadar Police Station Asaduzzaman and closed sub-inspector Shamim Ala Mamun today explained to a Narayanganj court on the incident of a girl found alive after three accused gave confessional statements on the rape and killing of the girl.

Three more prosecution witnesses today gave their statements before a Dhaka court in connection with a Tk 4 crore money laundering case filed against former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and 10 others.

The High Court today sought the revised charts of fees and charges for medical tests at private clinics, hospitals and diagnostic centres.

Twenty-nine Indian sailors -- stranded in Bangladesh due to coronavirus outbreak -- left Dhaka on a special flight of Novoair today.

Thirty-five 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).

Md Shafiqul Islam, former deputy assistant director of Rab-1 and the complainant of the arms case against expelled leader of Jubo Mohila League Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman, gave his deposition before a Dhaka tribunal.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has frozen Tk 7.36 crore in different bank accounts of former BNP lawmaker Ruhul Kuddus Talukder Dulu and his wife Sabina Yasmin.