The victims of ongoing erosion by the Teesta joined a human chain on the riverbank at Balapara of Mahishkhocha union in Lalmonirhat’s Aditmari upazila on Monday demanding immediate government steps to save them from the menace.

Three local leaders of ruling Awami League (AL) and its youth wing were killed in separate incidents in Patuakhali and Tangail during the Eid vacation.

Seven people, including three children, have drowned in Tangail and Patuakhali, report our correspondents.

City Bank has introduced a dual currency debit card, joining a growing list of lenders that are offering the facility to lure in the progressively global-minded customers in the country that are averse to using credit cards.

SS Steel, a newly listed company, plans to acquire Saleh Steel Industries with the view to staking a larger claim on the Tk 55,000 crore-industry, in yet another indication of the impending recovery of the Bangladesh economy from the fallout of the global coronavirus pandemic.

For the first time ever, all 187 member states in the International Labour Organisation (ILO) ratified the convention on child labour, a commitment to stop child labour worldwide.

A case has been filed against 75 people, including an Awami League leader, in connection with the double murder that took place last Sunday at Keshabpur union in Patuakhali’s Baufal upazila.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said persons responsible for the killing of retired Army Major Sinha Md Rashed would be brought to justice after proper investigation as she called his mother over phone.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) this afternoon filed a case against Jubo Mohila League's suspended leader Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman Sumon for amassing about Tk 6.24 crore illegally.

A newly-married couple drowned in the Sati river in Sadar upazila of Lalmonirhat today.

Md Abdul Mannan, secretary to the Health Services Division under the Ministry of Health, today said China's Sinovac Biotech Ltd has applied for government permission to conduct the third phase of a Covid-19 vaccine trial at seven hospitals in Bangladesh.

A teenager has been raped allegedly by her cousin in Jhikargacha upazila of Jashore.

A virtual court in Dhaka has again rejected bail petition of two officials of JKG Health Care in a case filed over issuing fake Covid-19 certificates.

A virtual court in Dhaka has again rejected bail petition of two officials of JKG Health Care in a case filed over issuing fake Covid-19 certificates.

Khorshed Alam Sujon has been appointed the administrator of Chattogram City Corporation.

A teacher of Chattogram Medical College died of Covid-19 at CMCH last night.

The Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to hoist local cautionary signal three as a low pressure area has formed over North Bay and adjoining area.

A total of 6,106 poor and helpless people were provided with legal aid without any cost during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic through the national helpline number 16430.

Three cousins have drowned in a pond at Kalaiya union in Patuakhali’s Baufal upazila.

Former lawmaker and Jatiya Party leader ATM Alamgir died at Green Life Hospital in Dhaka while undergoing treatment after being diagnosed with Covid-19. He was 70.