The 17th edition of an international tourism fair -- US-Bangla Airlines Dhaka Travel Mart 2020 -- which was scheduled to begin in the capital from March 12, is postponed due to growing threat of the lethal COVID-19 infection.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says a slight increase in power and water tariffs was unlikely to cause people sufferings.

A case was filed under the Women and Children Repression Prevention act against a teacher of Rajshahi University on Thursday for allegedly sexually harassing his students.

Rab claims to have arrested seven alleged members of the banned militant group Ansar al Islam from separate raids in Dhaka and Pabna districts early.

Opposing the government’s move to hike the tariffs of power and water, Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader says it will only inflict immense sufferings on people already struggling to cope with the increased prices of essentials.

Thirty-three female workers of a wig factory in Nilphamari are hospitalised after they fell ill while on duty.

A suspected robbery gang leader is killed in a reported gunfight with police in Sadar upazila of Moulvibazar.

At least three people are killed and 15 injured as a bus falls into a road-side ditch in Daudkandi upazila of Cumilla.

Five people are killed and four others injured in separate road accidents in Jashore, Pabna and Manikganj.

A group allegedly led by the personal assistant of a Patuakhali lawmaker stabs the three sons of the owner of a fish enclosure when they protested the group’s occupation of the enclosure in the district’s Kalapara upazila.

A Supreme Court lawyer has filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directive on the government to provide state honour and honorarium to the language heroes and language martyrs in order to protect and preserve the memories of the Language Movement.

A Bangladeshi militant and an Indian belonging to Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terror group have been convicted by a court in Kolkata on charges of money laundering and terror financing in connection with the Burdwan blast case of October, 2014.

A robber was killed in a gunfight in Monirampur upazila of Jashore, police say.

A suspected human trafficker has been detained and 16 Rohingyas have been rescued from Maheshkhali in Cox’s Bazar as they attempted to go to Malaysia.

Two robbers are killed during a gunfight between two gangs of robbers in Feni’s Songazi upazila, police say.

A woman dies in fire at a building in Dhaka's Mohammadpur area.

Indiscriminate earth and sand extraction from the Pungli river at Kalihati upazila poses threat to two bridges, one on Joydevpur-Elenga highway and the other on Joydevpur-Bangabandhu Bridge rail route.

A man, brutally tortured allegedly by a moneylender and his family members at the latter’s house at Baluadanga of Dinajpur Municipality, is groaning in pain at M Abdur Rahim Medical College Hospital.

A Sirajganj court yesterday sentenced six people to life term imprisonment for raping a girl.

A woman was strangled in Dewanganj upazila on Wednesday.