Around 25,000 families from five upazilas in Sirajganj are barely surviving on embankments or roads as their houses have been flooded.

Bangladesh now ranks eighth in the global weekly increase of new coronavirus cases, according to World Health Organization (WHO).

A five-month-old infant in Adabor and a woman in Mohammadpur are killed in the capital.

Three passengers of a three-wheeler are killed in a road accident on Dhaka-Bonpara highway in Sirajganj’s Tarash upazila.

An alleged drug peddler is killed in a "gunfight" with police in front of Marine Drive Road under Teknaf Sadar Upazila in Cox’s Bazar.

Police arrested a physician last night on charges of raping his personal chamber assistant in Pirojpur on Wednesday afternoon.

BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia’s advisor Muhammad Abdul Haque, popularly known as MA Haque, dies at a hospital in Sylhet. He was 67.

Police recovered the body of a footwear trader from Mithapur village in Sadar upazila yesterday.

At least five people were killed and two others injured in separate incidents of lightning strike in Lalmonirhat and Panchagarh yesterday.

A group of ethnic Hajong youths voluntarily repaired the broken portion of a bridge in a remote area of Lengura union under Netrakona’s Kalmakanda upazila on Monday.

Swapnabuni, a local voluntary organisation, has recently started distributing food among the flood-hit families in different char areas of the Brahmaputra and Dharla rivers in Kurigram Sadar upazila.

Police on Wednesday night arrested a man in connection with a case for raping a physically challenged girl in Khoksa upazila of the district on Tuesday.

Anwar Khan Modern Hospital will provide treatment to district registrars, sub-registrars and their family members on a priority basis if they are infected with Covid-19.

A Bangladeshi citizen has been “shot dead” and another injured inside Indian territory near the Gowainghat border in Sylhet.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has approved the decision to shut down production of 25 state-run jute mills under Bangladesh Jute Mill Corporation (BJMC) by providing cent percent dues of some 25,000 workers of the mills.

A Bangladeshi national, who was apprehended by the police with 25 other fellow countrymen recently for allegedly violating lockdown, died in a government hospital in Assam's Dhubri district, Assam police says.

People in Chattogram are concerned after instances of misleading Covid-19 test reports from private labs emerge there, while an expert says there is a lack of trained manpower in the private labs in port city.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP), in support of Bangladesh government’s emergency response, has dispatched cash assistance to communities at risk of monsoon flooding in northern Bangladesh.

Bangladesh and India railways have achieved a record by running more than 100 trains in June 2020 to transport goods between the two countries, amid the coronavirus pandemic that disrupted regular truck movement.

Bangladeshi expatriates have sent USD 18.20 billion remittance -- equivalent to Tk 1,54,700 crore -- in the last fiscal year.