The government has decided to recruit 2,000 more doctors to tackle the Covid-19 crisis. The Ministry of Health has already sent a letter to the ministry of public administration demanding the appointments. However, doctors are worried about the process by which they will be recruited.

After nearly 100 burglaries at different mobile and Bkash agent shops across the country, five members of an organised gang of thieves are arrested by police in Chattogram port city's Bakalia area.

Renowned singer Selim Chowdhury has tested positive for Covid-19.

In a major development, Biman today decided to resume its flights on the Dubai and Abu Dhabi routes from July 9, paving the way for thousands of stranded Bangladeshi workers to return to their workplaces in the UAE.

Some 1,387 children across the country faced different forms of violence in the last six months since January, according to a study of Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum (BSAF).

After Japan, it’s now Italy, which has suspended Biman’s special chartered flights to and from the European country after several Bangladeshi passengers on yesterday’s flight tested positive for Covid-19 despite having documents certifying that they had tested negative and were safe to travel.

Three members of a family were killed as a private car fell into a roadside ditch in Daudkandi upazila of Cumilla earlier today.

Bangladesh Railway (BR) will use trains to carry cattle and other sacrificial animals to different regions ahead of Eid-ul Ahza to facilitate cattle traders.

A virtual court places Abdus Salam, a supervisor of Moyur-2-launch, on a three-day remand in connection with a case filed over the death of 34 people in the Buriganga launch capsize that took place on June 29.

Four day labourers went missing as two boats capsized in the Padma River near Kumarkhali upazila of Kushtia this morning.

Six people in total showing coronavirus-like symptoms died Cumilla, Jhenidah and Patuakhali in the last 24 hours.

Malaysian Immigration Department has circulated a notice today, seeking public information on a Bangladeshi national to be investigated under the Immigration Act, after he spoke of mistreatment of migrants during Covid-19 lockdown in an Al Jazeera documentary aired last week.

In response to severe flooding that submerged parts of Bangladesh in late June, the European Union is providing EUR 100,000 (Tk 90.6 lakh) to Bangladesh Red Crescent Society for early anticipatory action in order to reduce impacts on the most affected communities.

Two persons, including an alleged robber, have been killed in a “gunfight” with police in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

The High Court has stayed a government decision that cancelled freedom fighter status of 119 members of Border Guard of Bangladesh (BGB), clearing their way to get benefits as freedom fighters.

Bangladesh and nine other countries handed over a joint statement supporting UN Secretary-General Antonio Gueterres’ appeal for global ceasefire.

The president of Jana Sanghati Samity MN Larma (reformist group) of Bandarban unit, along with five of its activists, was shot dead in attack which also left three others injured in Bandarban’s Baghmara this morning.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has alleged that the 27 Bangladeshis in Vietnam who were demanding to be repatriated had “occupied Bangladesh mission in Hanoi” on July 2.

Many ordinary people are compelled to receive ‘wrong treatment’ from so-called local doctors amid the pandemic. In some cases, such treatment has even led to the death of the patient.

A staggering 50 lakh cubic feet (cft) of sand extracted by Bangladesh Water Development Board from the Meghna River in Ashuganj upazila of Brahmanbaria district has been illegally sold out.