Three children drowned in Lalmonirhat and Kurigram on Wednesday.

Police recovered the body of a youth from a waterbody in Naogaon’s Atrai upazila on Wednesday, a day after he went missing from a relative’s house in Manda upazila of same district.

Nigerian Postal Service released a commemorative stamp today marking the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

South Korea has pledged to provide $800,000 worth of test kits to help curb the further spread of coronavirus in Bangladesh.

A Russian national has reportedly died of alcohol poisoning at a private hospital in Rajshahi, police said.

New details on Bangladeshi MP Mohammed Shahid Islam’s dealings and businesses in Kuwait have surfaced, a daily Kuwaiti newspaper Al Qabas reported according to Gulf News.

The bank accounts of Shamima Nasrin, chairman of online shopping platform Evaly.com and its Managing Director Md Rassel have been frozen.

The government has reduced the rate of Value Added Tax (VAT) on International Terrestrial Cable (ITC), International Internet Gateway (IIG) and Nationwide Telecommunication Transmission Network (NTTN) to five percent.

Bangladesh has won the People's Choice Award at Stockholm Junior Water Prize for using naturally produced polyglutamic acid along with moringa to purify water.

Jatiya Party Secretary General Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu today said JP would not accept any decision taken by the Election Commission that would curtail the rights of political parties or people's voting rights.

The Election Commission (EC) is going to file a case against JKG Healthcare Chairman Dr Sabrina Arif Chowdhury for having acquired dual National Identity Cards (NIDs) with fake information.

Two employees of Savings Department of General Post Office (GPO) in Chattogram were detained by the authority and handed over to the police on charge of embezzling Tk 45 lakh from clients which was deposited at GPO.

The High Court today asked for the case records and summoned two investigation officers in order to examine how three accused gave confessional statements on the rape and killing of a girl even though she was found alive in Narayanganj.

Outgoing Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Riva Ganguly Das today proposed restoration of air connectivity with Bangladesh, following the months-long cancellation of air services with the neighboring country due to the Covid-19 outbreak since April.

The trial of the case filed against JKG Health Care Chairman Dr Sabrina Arif Chowdhury and seven others over issuing fake Covid-19 certificates began today at a Dhaka court with deposition of the complainant.

Japan has signed a grant agreement of $5 million with Bangladesh for promoting quality primary education in the country, the Japanese Embassy in Dhaka said today.

Bangladesh has sought more Swiss investments in the country’s hi-tech parks, taking advantage of various incentive packages that the country offers, a large, trained youth population, and a growing middle class.

The Supreme Court today upheld High Court orders that stayed the trial proceedings against six BNP leaders, including its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, in nine separate vandalism and arson cases filed in 2015.

The Covid-19 pandemic has pushed nearly 62 percent ethnic minority people who live in plains below extreme poverty line, according to a survey of Indigenous People's Development Services (IPDS).

Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations will not be held this year.