Muggers snatched around Tk 35 lakh from a sales representative of a mobile phone company in broad daylight in New Market area of Rajshahi city today.

Sittings of the ongoing budget session of 11th parliament will be cut short further as around 100 staff and employees of the parliament secretariat and 12 MPs and ministers have so far been infected with Covid-19.

Lychee growers in Pabna are all smiles as the fruit is fetching a good market price across the country after a shaky harvest.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stresses the need for strengthening Bangladesh Navy further in a bid to protect the country’s maritime area.

In a major reshuffle in the police department, a total of 215 superintendent of police (SP)-ranked officials have been transferred.

Doctors in Khulna today gave a 72-hr ultimatum to authorities concerned demanding withdrawal of Sadar Police Station’s officer-in-charge and arrest of all responsible for the death of Dr Abdur Rakib Khan.

To probe into the graft allegations over N95 mask, PPE and safety gear procurement at Central Medical Stores Depot (CMSD), the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) forms an inquiry committee.

Combatting human trafficking is one of the top priorities of Kuwait, said its Interior Minister Anas Al-Saleh, terming the country’s security a “red line”, reported Kuwait Times on Wednesday.

Another doctor died with Covid-19 infection at Enam Medical College Hospital in Savar last night.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has sought the income tax documents of Mohammad Shahid Islam, MP of Laxmipur-2 constituency (independent), his family and his sister-in-law from the National Board of Revenue.

Bangladesh Police have arrested around 109 people in 51 cases filed with different police stations regarding extortion at various points on the roads and highways in the country since the beginning of June.

A teacher of Rajshahi University (RU) was arrested under Digital Security Act early today, for "criticising veteran politician and Awami League presidium member Mohammed Nasim", said police.

Achieving 8.2 percent GDP growth during this pandemic is almost impossible as GDP growth and revenue collection will be lower this year because of slow business, said AB Mirza Azizul Islam, an economist and a former adviser to the caretaker government.

A Bangladeshi cattle trader has been shot dead by India’s Border Security Force personnel along the Bangladesh-India border in Naogaon.

Police on Tuesday recovered the throat-slit body of a man in Nawabganj upazila, a day after he went missing on Monday.

Police on Tuesday night arrested a youth on charge of raping a schoolgirl and spreading the video of the incident on social media.

While humans are trying to fight the deadly novel coronavirus across the globe, cattle in the country’s northern districts, under Rangpur division, are getting infected at an alarming pace by another highly contagious virus -- lumpy skin disease (LSD).

When the government is planning to store sufficient food grains for ensuring support in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the rice procurement drive in Pabna faces a hurdle due to alleged irregularities by a section of officials and ‘low prices’ offered to millers and farmers.

Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested three members of an inter-district robbers’ gang from Auliapur area in Sadar upazila early yesterday.

The government has suspended 11 more union parishad public representatives over various allegations including misappropriation of relief items for people who were hit hard by the economic fallout during the Covid-19-induced closure.