The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is going to file a case against Regent Group Chairman Md Shahed and three others for embezzling about Tk 1.5 crore from NRB Bank.

Ministry of Disaster Management and relief is going to purchase 60 special rescue boats to help flood victims in flood affected districts.

Six people were injured as a bus plunged into a road-side canal in Janigaon area of Sunamganj Sadar upazila earlier today.

A rapist has been killed in a shootout between Rapid Action Battalion members and drug peddlers in Rajshahi’s Puthia upazila, a Rab official said.

Floods may strike Lalmonirhat for the third time this monsoon as Teesta River has crossed the danger level due to onrush of water from upstream India and heavy rainfall, according to Water Development Board.

A schoolboy was killed in lightning strike in Pirganj upazila of the district on Sunday.

A housewife was killed allegedly by her husband for dowry in Chatmohar upazila on Sunday night.

Flood-hit people in different parts of Sirajganj are not seeing any immediate respite from their sufferings although floodwater has started receding from Saturday. Meanwhile, water level in the Jamuna river has started to rise again. As a result, many new areas in six upazilas of the district have been flooded in the last one week.

A Bangladeshi national, who was involved in the fatal attack on a rival seller of illegal cigarettes, has been sentenced to 15 years' jail and 15 strokes of the cane.

Health Services Division Secretary Abdul Mannan has said Bangladesh would be among the first to get any Covid-19 vaccine developed in any country across the world.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen urged Spain to recruit agricultural labourers from Bangladesh during the post-Covid pandemic period considering their skills in grain production.

Bangladesh’s policy to set up coal-fired power plants will result in a long-term financial burden, a speaker say at a webinar.

Nasiruddin Mridha, sukani (launch employee), confesses before a magistrate that it was his negligence which led to vessel Moyur-2 hitting another launch--Morning Bird--in Buriganga river on June 29, killing at least 34 people.

The government has decided to appoint Tarik Ahsan, currently serving as the High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Pakistan, as the next ambassador to Portugal, a foreign ministry release said today.

After months of exploitation by their agents in Vietnam, 17 more Bangladeshis have travelled to Hanoi from Guntao and held a sit-in near the Bangladesh embassy there, calling upon the mission to come to their aid.

Class XI admission seekers will have to submit their online applications between August 9 and 20 in the first phase, authorities said today.

A Dhaka court gives police 10 more working days to complete the investigation into the allegation brought against 219 returnees from Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain.

Scientists at Oxford University say their experimental coronavirus vaccine has been shown in an early trial to prompt a protective immune response in hundreds of people who got the shot.

The government will resume air-connectivity on the Dhaka-Rajshahi-Dhaka route from tomorrow as the sixth domestic destination, following reopening of air travel to Chattogram, Sylhet, Saidpur, Jashore and Barishal since the suspension of flights due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Abdul Awal Khan, BNP’s assistant organising secretary, died with coronavirus infection in the city today. He was 54.