A child dies when two boats carrying 40 members of a bridal party sink in Padma river in Rajshahi.

Myanmar’s legal counsel in an ongoing genocide trial at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) once compared the government’s treatment of Rohingya Muslims to Nazi Germany’s treatment of Jews during the Holocaust, according to a previously unreleased video footage of 2013 obtained and published by Fortify Rights.

As the number of rape and violence against women is increasing, the government is considering formation of a commission to stop such incidents.

The nation is set to observe the historic March 7, commemorating Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s landmark speech in 1971 which was touted as the indirect declaration of Bangladesh’s independence.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain and other judges of the Appellate and High Court Divisions of the Supreme Court pay homage to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, placing wreaths at his grave in Tungipara upazila, Gopalganj, as a part of celebrating the “Mujib Borsho”.

Industries Minister Nurul Mazid Mahmud Humayun has said that the government will form a salt board in Cox’s Bazar and provide sufficient subsidy considering salt cultivation an agricultural pursuit.

Detectives Branch (DB) of police claim to have arrested two local leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of Awami League, with 30 pieces of yaba tablets in Nageshwari upazila of Kurigram.

A police constable of Barishal Police Lines reportedly dies by suicide in Barishal city.

At least 22 people are killed and nine others injured in separate road accidents in Habiganj, Brahmanbaria, Cumilla, Savar of Dhaka, Feni and Mymensingh.

At least six people are killed as a micro-bus catches fire after colliding head-on with a bus on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Bijoynagar upazila of Brahmanbaria.

Brac, a Bangladesh-based non-government organisation, has been ranked the top NGO in the world in 2020, for the fifth consecutive year.

A 58-year-old mentally challenged woman, who was chained for over three decades, was rescued from her brother’s house in Barlekha upazila on Wednesday.

Angry family members and relatives went on a rampage at private hospital in Patuakhali town on Wednesday night following the death of a patient due to alleged wrong treatment.

Irregularities have been found in the widening work of a 6.24km long road stretching from Sadar upazila’s Mogholhat area to Aditmari upazila’s Durgapur area.

Indiscriminate earth lifting threatens a locally important bridge over the Fanai River in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar.

A teenage boy of Bangladeshi origin was killed allegedly by some unidentified criminals in London, United Kingdom (UK) on Tuesday.

Police early yesterday arrested the prime accused in connection with a case for killing a teenage girl at Barunagaon village in Sadar upazila on Wednesday.

A man from Kholahati Kalmati village in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila have alleged harassment and death threat by his younger brother, also a leader of Jamaat-e-Islami.

Colleagues of slain lawyer’s assistant Siddiqur Rahman Khaliph demanded immediate arrest and exemplary punishment of his killers.

A local Awami League (AL) leader was held under the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act over Facebook post in the town early yesterday.