Mizanur Rahman, a youth living on a char on Brahmaputra River in Kurigram, is visually challenged since birth, but that did not prevent him from earning a living.

A Bangladeshi man who landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport from the Maldives has been sent to hospital to be quarantined.

A rickshaw puller and his passenger are killed as a truck rams into the rickshaw on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Bhaluka upazila of Mymensingh.

The ruling Awami League-backed panel has won six posts including that of the president out of 14 posts in the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) election.

A suspected robber is killed in a reported gunfight with police in Chandina upazila of Cumilla.

All 112 people, including 23 Bangladeshis, who were admitted to a quarantine facility in India for over a fortnight after their return from China, have tested negative for coronavirus and are expected to be released today, a senior official says.

A Moulvibazar court yesterday sent four members of a family to jail in connection with a case for killing a housewife for dowry at Pallakandi village in Kulaura upazila on Tuesday night.

A Tangail court yesterday sentenced two people to life term imprisonment in a case filed for killing a teenage girl after rape in 2016.

Hundreds of electric poles, now standing in the middle of the road due to widening of a 21-kilometre regional highway in Barguna, causes trouble for vehicular movement, in addition to disturbance in the road renovation work.

To stop erosion by the Karkhana and Pandob rivers, a group of local people have built an illegal dam in Varani Khal (canal) halting natural flow of the water at Sundarikathi village in Barishal’s Bakerganj upazila.

As many as 150 families sheltered at Ashrayan-2 project in Digholia upazila are living under threat of erosion.

Citing the Communicable Diseases (Prevention, Control and Eradication) Act, 2018, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) yesterday published a circular that said hiding information about any coronavirus patient is a punishable offence.

Police detained 12 Rohingyas including nine children from Mongla port in Bagerhat last night as they were entering the country through an India-Bangladesh border on Monday.

In the wake of the confirmation of the first coronavirus cases in Bangladesh, the government cancels all parades and freedom fighters’ gatherings across the country -- planned on the occasion of Independence Day -- with a view to stop the spread of coronavirus.

The Supreme Court has summoned the judge of Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-7 of Dhaka for granting bail to an accused in a rape case despite the apex court’s stay order on the bail.

After the detection of first coronavirus cases in Bangladesh, Awami League-led 14 Party Alliance shortens the year-long programme to celebrate the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, considering public health concerns.

Around 10,000 masks and 10,000 soap are distributed in primary and secondary schools of Mollahat upazila under Bagerhat district today -- in a bid to combat coronavirus.

The US government has mobilised $2,500,000 through USAID to support Bangladesh's COVID-19 readiness and response efforts.

Police arrest an Imam of a mosque for allegedly raping an eight-year-old in the city’s Pallabi area.

The Supreme Court upholds a High Court order that issued a status quo on recruitment of 1,650 deputy assistant agriculture officers on charge of irregularities in application of the quota system in the appointment process.