A Dhaka court today allowed the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to interrogate Regent Hospital Chairman Mohammad Shahed at the jail gate to gather information about the crores of taka amassed by issuing fake Covid-19 results.

The date for this year's Higher Secondary School Certificate examination has not been fixed and no decision has yet been taken to cancel the Junior School Certificate (JSC) examination, an education ministry press release said today.

Shipra Debnath in a video message posted on social media has said that they would keep the dream of slain Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan alive with their YouTube channel "Just Go".

Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Shahab Uddin has been tested Covid-19 positive today, Dipankar Bar, senior information officer of the ministry confined The Daily Star.

A video of the officer-in-charge of Lalmonirhat Sadar Police Station has gone viral on social media that shows him taking bribe money from some people in connection with filing a “false case”.

Investigation agency of the International Crime Tribunal (ICT) today finalised and released the probe report on the crimes against humanity committed by four alleged Razakars from Noakhali.

A woman ended up giving birth to a baby girl at a roadside market in Gaibandha town after she was denied admission at the Gaibandha Mother and Children Welfare Centre.

Md Belayet Hossain, superintendent of police (SP) of Rajshahi range, is sued in connection with an extortion case registered with the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court.

A Supreme Court lawyer today filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directive on the government to preserve and display the portrait of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the parliament session room in Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.

Lawmakers are keen on projects related to the development of rural road system, construction of bridges and culverts, a Transparency International Bangladesh research said today.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque today said a decision on buying coronavirus vaccine from China and running trials for it in Bangladesh will be taken next week.

A C-130J transport aircraft of Bangladesh Air Force -- carrying 71 repatriated Bangladeshi nationals from Lebanon -- has returned home after handing over humanitarian and relief assistance to the victims of the horrific explosion in Beirut, Lebanon on August 4, according to a press release of the Inter Services Public Relations Directorate (ISPR).

The youth of the country, nearly one-third of the population, might become a burden for the country instead of an asset due to tobacco addiction, said Progga, a platform of anti-tobacco campaigners.

US-Bangla Airlines is going to resume flights on the Dhaka-Kuala Lumpur-Dhaka route from August 16, after five months of suspension due to Covid-19.

Rab arrested a union parishad chairman under Dhaka’s Dhamrai upazila early today on charge of embezzlement of relief rice.

After five months, regular functions of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court resumed today on a limited scale while following health guidelines.

Barrister Rumeen Farhana, a BNP lawmaker from reserved seat, has tested positive for coronavirus.

Approximately 70 percent of surveyed migrants, who returned from abroad between February and June, are unemployed, according to a study conducted on returnees in 12 districts of the country.

The Supreme Court today summoned Advocate Syed Mamun Mahbub to appear before it on August 20 for posting a derogatory status about Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain on Facebook.

A Dhaka court has placed three Awami League leaders of Faridpur town unit on two-day remand each in a Tk 2,000 crore money laundering case.