A former leader of the banned East Bengal Communist Party was shot dead by unknown criminals in broad daylight in Monirampur upazila of Jashore this afternoon.

On July 3, eleven Bangladeshi job-seekers returned from Vietnam. All of them had business visas.

In a major setback for many Bangladeshi expatriates waiting to return to their workplaces in Italy, the European country has put restriction on entry of passengers from Bangladesh into its territory till October 5.

A physician of Dhaka Medical College Hospital is killed when a battery-run three-wheeler hit his motorbike on Lalmonirhat-Burimari highway under Aditmari upazila in Lalmonirhat.

The Ministry of Education has not taken any decision yet to provide any kind of “auto promotion” to any students to promote them into the next classes.

The budget and eighth session of current 11th parliament was prorogued today after only nine working days, which was the shortest parliament session in the recent history of Bangladesh Jatiya Sangsad due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Public prosecutors, government pleaders and individual lawyers across the country will be provided training in order to increase their competence in moving cases before the courts through a virtual system.

A case has been filed against 10 named and some unnamed people in connection with yesterday’s gun attack in Bandarban’s Bagmara area that left six people killed and three others injured.

Deputy Leader of the Opposition and Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader today told parliament that Bangladesh has been affected very much due to fake Covid-19 test certificates as different countries have put restrictions on Bangladeshi passengers in entering their countries.

Twenty-seven police personnel who recovered from Covid-19 infections in Cumilla have started for Dhaka to donate plasma for treatment of severely ill coronavirus patients.

Malaysian authorities’ move to go public with the personal details of a Bangladeshi migrant worker, who is wanted by them for speaking up on alleged mistreatment by immigration officers, has sparked criticism from rights activists.

Three alleged Rohingya yaba smugglers have been killed in a “gunfight” with Border Guard Bangladesh in Ukhia upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

The US Embassy has provided essential personal protective equipment (PPE) to Bangladesh Police as part of continued US support for Bangladesh’s Covid-19 response efforts.

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that India “fully understands the urgency of an early, safe and sustainable repatriation of displaced persons from Myanmar’s Rakhine state in the interest of all”.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called for a “vigorous worldwide response” to combat the adverse impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on the migrants as she placed a three-point suggestion to this end.

A cement factory official is killed when a truck hit his motorcycle at Mirakhali area under Rampal upazila on Khulna-Mongla highway this evening.

A rusty but live hand grenade creates huge tension at a re-rolling mill in Chattogram last night before it was defused by police.

Bodies of two people out of four, who went missing following a boat capsize in the Padma river in Kumarkhali upazila on Tuesday, were recovered yesterday.

A section of tea worker leaders in 19 tea gardens under Kulaura upazila have allegedly pocketed lakhs of taka from several thousand unsuspecting poor tea workers.

Coastal fishermen, especially those fishing at sea, are passing days amid much hardship, facing the coronavirus pandemic, super cyclone Amphan and lastly the ongoing 65-day-long ban on fishing while the compensation provided by the government is too small to meet their requirement.