Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reiterates her steadfast commitment to ensure housing for all, including the flood and river erosion-hit people, as she inaugurated the world’s biggest housing project for climate refugees in Cox’s Bazar.

An alleged serial child rapist has been killed in a “gunfight” with police in Chattogram city's Bayezid Bostami area during a police drive.

Following a rumour over reopening of educational institutions after Eid-ul-Azha, the Ministry of Education clarified that the government is yet to take any decision in this regard.

The two mayors of Dhaka city blame Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority and Bangladesh Water Development Board for the city's waterlogging problem that started on Monday due to heavy rain.

Around 50,000 people in five upazilas in Lalmonirhat have been marooned as the Teesta and Dharla rivers swelled above danger levels yesterday evening.

The prime accused, arrested in connection with a case for killing four of a family in Modhupur upazila of July 15, confessed to the crime before court on Tuesday.

Hundreds of farmers in the district have started planting Ropa Aman paddy with the hope of getting fair prices. The growers are eager to start Aman farming earlier to get high yield.

A large area of Patgram upazila’s Dahagram union, a Bangladeshi enclave surrounded by Indian territory on three sides and the Teesta river on the other, is experiencing severe erosion due to floods.

The American Chamber of Commerce in Bangladesh (AmCham) announces the ‘AmCham frontline journalism Award’ for journalists working in national dailies and televisions.

Saima Wazed Hossain, chairperson of the National Advisory Committee on Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Autism, is among four eminent personalities chosen as ambassadors of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF).

At least seven people were killed as a Leguna collided with a covered van in Chakaria upazila of Cox’s Bazar this evening.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque says the government will consult the National Technical Advisory Committee before deciding on whether to use the Covid-19 vaccine which is being made by China.

Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) starts clinical trials of Favipiravir to test its effectiveness as treatment for Covid-19 patients in the country.

As Kuwait’s Public Prosecution continues an investigation into Bangladeshi MP Shahid Islam Papul’s case of human trafficking and money laundering, it found new information that thousands of Pakistanis, Syrians, and Iraqis were also granted Kuwaiti visas in exchange for bribes.

Thousands of people of about 20 villages have been facing serious problems as a bridge on a river in Jamalpur’s Sarishabari upazila collapsed around midnight yesterday.

Germany government has newly contributed $4.5 million funding to the United Nations World Food Programme to support the Rohingya community in Bangladesh.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan today called his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina and discussed various issues related to Covid-19 and flood situation.

A doctor couple was burnt severely in a fire, reportedly igniting after a cigarette came in contact with hand sanitiser at their home in Dhaka’s Hatirpool area early today.

Reflecting the severity of the pandemic in Delhi, an official survey by the Indian health ministry has found that at least one in five persons in the Indian capital has been exposed to coronavirus.

After Prof Abul Kalam Azad stepped down as director general of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) yesterday, its Director (Hospital) Aminul Hasan is now being removed from the post amid severe criticism over Covid-19 tests.