The average life expectancy of goldsmiths in Bangladesh is 59, in stark contrast with the national life expectancy of 72.3 years, according to a study by the Department of Public Health and Informatics (DPHI) at BSMMU.

Mobile courts fine at least 19 stores, including pharmacies, in Dhaka city, Savar, Narayanganj and Manikganj for selling products such as surgical masks, hand sanitisers and different medicines at prices higher than usual.

Manabzamin Editor-in-Chief Matiur Rahman Chowdhury and 31 others have been sued under the Digital Security Act on charge of “publishing false news and circulating it on social media”.

The High Court directed the government to find out if there are any errors in the version of March 7 speech of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman printed in the constitution.

In the wake of the confirmation of coronavirus cases in Bangladesh, BNP announces postponement of tomorrow’s scheduled nationwide demonstration demanding immediate release of its Chairperson Khaleda Zia.

The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education has asked all offices and educational institutions under its jurisdiction and people across the country to remain cautious to contain the spread of coronavirus.

A Dhaka court has granted bail to former minister Nazmul Huda’s wife Sigma Huda and their two daughters -- Antara Selima Huda and Srabanti Amina Huda -- in two graft cases.

A teacher’s left hand has been severed and at least 10 students of Dhaka’s Willes Little Flower School and College have been injured when a bus on a study tour collided with a parked truck in Gopalganj.

The High Court rejects the bail of suspended director of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Khandaker Enamul Basir in a case filed over a transaction of Tk 40 lakh as bribe.

Banglalink has declared the IEDCR hotline numbers toll-free for its users to facilitate preventive measures against the spread of coronavirus in the country, a press release says.

Police have arrested one in a case over sexual harassment of a student of Jagannath University (JnU) inside a running bus on the International Women's Day observed lately.

A Supreme Court (SC) lawyer appeals to the president and prime minister to pardon the jail sentence of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and release her from jail on humanitarian ground ahead of birth centenary celebration of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

The High Court has declared “Joy Bangla” as national slogan.

An elderly couple who landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport were sent to hospital after authorities detected they had fever.

A criminal has been killed in a gunfight with members of a rival group in Bogura town.

A woman was tortured brutally allegedly by her son and his wife and wife’s sister in Jahilkhana Road area of Rajapur on Sunday.

Twelve-year-old Lazim Molla had a fascination for Arabic and just this year, he joined a residential madrasa.

A three-day festival marking the 132th birth anniversary of spiritual leader Thakur Anukul Chandra began at his birthplace in Pabna’s Hemayetpur Satsangha Ashram on Sunday.

Massive use of topsoil for brick manufacturing badly affects fertility of agricultural lands in Amtali upazila of Barguna district.

A British national of Bangladeshi origin succumbs to coronavirus infection yesterday at a hospital in UK’s Manchester, the third death from the disease in the country.