The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) increases the hotline numbers to report any suspected cases of coronavirus to 12 from four, after three cases were confirmed in Bangladesh on Sunday.

A Rohingya man, allegedly a yaba trader, has been killed in what law enforcers claimed to be a gunfight in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says that the law ministry will take necessary steps to consider BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s appeal to release her from jail.

Five years after the murder of a child in Narsingdi, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has disclosed that the father had assisted the criminals to kill his daughter in exchange for money.

“Harun murdered my child. If there were a punishment higher than death sentence, that too would not be enough for his crimes.”

“Harun murdered my child. If there were a punishment higher than death sentence, that too would not be enough for his crimes.”

Four people die and three others get injured as a tree falls on the rickshaw-van in Dhamrai, on the outskirts of the capital.

Six passengers of a CNG-run three-wheeler are killed when a truck rams into it at Mirzapur upazila of Tangail.

A suspected drug smuggler has been held by the police in Noakhali’s Charmatua union.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) is yet to spread in the country and is still limited within a cluster, said World Health Organization Representative in Bangladesh Dr Bardan Jung Rana.

A Dhaka court today sentenced Harun Or Rashid to death for the rape and murder of schoolgirl Samia Afrin Saima last year.

Qatar has temporarily suspended entry for people from Bangladesh and 13 other countries as a preventive measure due to the spread of coronavirus worldwide.

A court here yesterday sentenced a man to life term imprisonment for killing his wife in Shibganj upazila in 2017.

A man was arrested yesterday in Patuakhali Sadar upazila after a case was filed earlier that day against him and five of his family members, over allegedly burning his wife to death.

Police yesterday arrested a man on charge of cutting government-owned trees on GK (Ganges-Kobadak) canal under the Water Development Board (WDB) in Kushtia’s Kumarkhali upazila.

A five-year-old girl is raped in the city’s Jatrabari area, the victim’s family and police says.

State Minister for Religious Affairs Sheikh Md Abdullah says there is no reason to panic over coronavirus outbreak and those who want to perform hajj should complete their registration process on time.

Law Minister Anisul Huq says the government will examine the state counsels’ (deputy attorney generals) “unawareness” about the High Court’s bail to GK Shamim, a top government listed contractor, in two criminal cases.

Law enforcers say that they have arrested 13 people from different places in Kurigram for their alleged involvement in crimes against humanity committed during the war of liberation in 1971.

Limon Hossain, who lost a leg after being shot by the Rapid Action Battalion in 2011, has started his career as a teaching assistant at the Department of Law of Gono University in Savar.