Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said it is unfortunate that Japanese authorities have barred Biman Bangladesh Airlines from operating special chartered flights to repatriate stranded citizens to and from Japan.

US-Bangla Airlines has repatriated 45 Indian sailors -- stranded in Bangladesh due to suspension of regular passenger flights on international routes due to Covid-19 – to New Delhi by a special chartered flight today.

The death toll from Covid-19 in Bangladesh Police now stands at 20 as another member of the force died from the infection.

The budget session for 2020-21 fiscal year has begun at Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban amid the coronavirus pandemic in the country.

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) today informed the High Court that there are a total of 733 intensive care unit (ICU) beds at government hospitals across the country.

The 31st span of the much-anticipated Padma Bridge is installed today, bringing a total of 4.650 kilometres of the structure into view.

Police arrested a businessman for allegedly torturing a 15-year-old boy in Lalmonirhat town -- supposedly for stealing a two-litre bottle of edible oil.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court will conduct judicial functions till June 30 through virtual system, without physical presence, in order to contain the coronavirus outbreak.

As Covid-19 hit the nation hard, some 11,025 women faced different forms of domestic violence during the shutdown across the country in May, says a tele-survey report of Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF).

Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL), the implementing agency of metro rail projects, has signed a contract with a consortium of agencies -- foreign and Bangladeshi -- for general consultancy services for Mass Rapid Transit Development Project (Line-5: northern route).

Nahida Rahman Shumona, who is currently serving as director general of regional organisations wing at the foreign affairs ministry, has been appointed as the next high commissioner of Bangladesh to Brunei.

A shortage of passengers has forced Biman Bangladesh Airlines to cancel its scheduled flights for today and tomorrow on three domestic routes.

Bangladesh has outright rejected a reported Malaysian plan to ask Dhaka to take in 269 Rohingyas who managed to land on its soil, with the foreign minister saying Dhaka was neither obligated nor willing to do so.

Laxmipur-2 MP Mohammad Shahid Islam, who was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department of Kuwait on charges of human trafficking and money laundering, has denied the allegations brought against him.

The upazila administration removed some illegal fishing structures from different areas of the Kanchamatia river in Ishwarganj upazila of Mymensingh on Monday.

Locals have demanded withdrawal of a decision by Roads and Highways Department (RHD) to acquire the land of a historical bridge named Hatirpool, two century-old graveyards and a 40-year-old mosque for expansion of Dhaka-Sylhet highway.

At least 20 cattle died in the last two months in Saidpur upazila and hundreds others infected by a highly contagious viral disease known as lumpy skin disease (LSD).

Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh has decided to resume flight operations on the Dhaka-Jashore route from Thursday.

After Gopalganj farmer Nikhil, college student Imran from Jashore becomes second victim of alleged police brutality

The Department of Environment (DoE) fines two people Tk 50 lakh for illegally cutting and eventually destroying around 50,000 square feet of hills in Arefin Nagar and Foy’s Lake of Chattogram.