A human hauler driver is killed after his vehicle turned turtle on the Khulna-Mawa highway in Fakirhat upazila of Bagerhat.

Dr Senjuti Saha, a microbiologist working as a scientist at the Child Health Research Foundation in Bangladesh, has been appointed to the Polio Transition Independent Monitoring Board (TIMB) of the World Health Organization as a member.

A Bangladeshi citizen has been “shot dead” and another injured inside Indian territory near Utma border in Sylhet’s Companiganj upazila.

Police have arrested another brother of a local ward councillor in Cumilla Sadar upazila in a murder case filed against 10 people, including the councilor.

Thousands of beds for coronavirus patients in Bangladesh are lying empty despite the country struggling with a rising caseload as people are too scared to enter hospitals, officials and sufferers say.

Abdus Salam, a supervisor of the Moyur-2 launch, is sent to jail after a three-day police remand for his interrogation was completed in connection with a case filed for the death of 34 people in Buriganga launch capsize that took place on June 29.

Hundreds of chars and low-lying areas along the Teesta and Dharla Rivers have been inundated as Teesta waters began flowing above danger level since yesterday afternoon, leaving around 70,000 people of 17 unions of Lalmonirhat district marooned.

The flood situation in Sunamganj and Sylhet have worsened a week after improving following a previous bout of flash floods, as the most important river flowing through the districts -- the Surma -- was overflowing.

The prime accused in a case filed for the gang-rape of a mentally challenged girl in Noakhali was killed in a gunfight earlier today, police say.

Regular flight operations between Dhaka and Barishal will resume tomorrow while ensuring health guidelines, officials inform The Daily Star.

A woman is killed and her four-year-old child injured during a ‘’gunfight between a group of Parbatya Chattogram Jana Sanghati Samity and patrol teams of Bangladesh Army’’ in Rowangchhari upazila of Bandarban yesterday, according to a regional press release from army.

Internationally acclaimed historian Professor Abul Bashar Mosarraf Hossain of Rajshahi University (RU) passed away at Bangladesh Specialised Hospital in Dhaka, Prof Fazlul Haque, Dean of the Faculty of Arts at RU, says.

A local journalist has been physically assaulted by an assistant sub-inspector under Shajahanpur Police Station in Bogura.

Dr Md Aminul Islam, director general of Bogura Rural Development Academy (RDA), has died of coronavirus at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital.

A transport leader has been stabbed to death while another injured by miscreants in Dakshin Surma upazila of Sylhet.

Two brothers of a ward councillor in Cumilla have been arrested over the murder of a local sand trader.

A Dhaka court places the directors of three recruiting agencies -- which are linked to a human trafficking ring in Vietnam -- on three-day remands each.

Speakers at a virtual seminar today urged the government to scrap the speedy energy supply act, officially known as the Quick Enhancement of Electricity and Energy Supply (Special Provision) Act 2010, terming it “unconstitutional”.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman Iqbal Mahmood says the national anti-graft agency will intensify its drive to bring justice to those involved in corruption in the health sector and during relief distribution.

Malaysia is planning to introduce e-wages system, which will alert the government in case foreign workers are not paid, as part of its new measures to protect the migrants.