A sand-laden truck fell into a canal after the Bailey bridge it was crossing collapsed in Mollahat upazila of Bagerhat today.

The government today warned of stern action if anyone spreads misleading or fake news on general holiday or lockdown in the wake of coronavirus pandemic.

A ninth grader was stabbed to death by his friend after an argument over playing games on the mobile phone in Jashore Sadar upazila last night.

The red carpet was rolled out as Nepal President Bidya Devi Bhandari arrived in Dhaka this morning on a two-day official visit.

Cutting off top soil from croplands for selling it to the brick kilns is still going on unabatedly at different places in Tangail, defying laws.

With cataracts in his eyes and difficulty in breathing, the frail 70-year-old man was toiling to bark logs with his axe in a sawmill of Domar upazila town.

The online process of filling out forms for this year's Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations will start from April 1 and will continue till April 7.

The local police and administration were negligent in carrying out their responsibility to control the situation and prevent attacks on the Hindu community in Noagaon village of Sunamganj's Shalla upazila on March 17.

A Patuakhali court issued an arrest warrant against the former Civil Surgeon of the district today. The warrant was issued after the court accepted the charge sheet of a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission for misappropriating Tk 26 lakh through fake vouchers.

Almost a year after their arrest, 11 Bangladeshi Tablighi Jamaat members were sent back home after they were released from detention in a guest house in Uttar Pradesh’s Bhadohi district yesterday (Saturday), a senior police official said.

Eleven people were killed, including six members of a family, and 11 others injured in two separate road accidents on the Dhaka-Khulna highway in Faridpur today.

Forest Department recovered a dead tigress from the Sundarbans on Friday night.

Coastguards seized huge quantity of shrimp fry from a passenger bus in Louhajang upazila early yesterday.

Overcoming legal hurdles on the much-awaited eviction drive along the Ichhamati river, running through Pabna town, the district administration is set to resume the drive on March 31.

After failing to find a job due to coronavirus outbreak, Shakil Ahmed, a B.Sc honours student of agriculture department at Noakhali Science and Technology University, did not sit idle and started farming and found success in it.

There had been times when relief workers from government or renowned aid organisations failed to reach inhabitants of remote villages in hill district of Khagrachhari after a natural disaster or a humanitarian crisis.

Two alleged smugglers were arrested with 4.5kg gold from a bus in Jashore this evening.

Detective Branch of Police have arrested a man on charge of swindling people out of Tk four crore by promising them jobs from Bogura’s Shibganj upazila.

Two people died in a train accident in Faridpur, while a man was killed and another critically injured in a separate train accident in Lalmonirhat today.

Police yesterday recovered a man’s body with his arms and legs tied from a roadside ditch in Uttar Karati village in Tarail upazila of Kishoreganj.