Five persons have been taken to police custody to be quizzed in connection with spreading rumours on coronavirus outbreak in the country.

Convicted war criminal and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdus Subhan dies of old age complications at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).

Five people die as a tourist boat capsizes in Kaptai lake in Rangamati, police say.

An attempt-to-murder case is filed against a teacher of Rajshahi University for allegedly assaulting one of his colleagues.

Thousands of students have been suffering from different problems, including the disruption of their regular education and athletics, due to sugarcane purchase centres that have been set up on their school grounds in Naldanga and Sadar upazilas of Natore.

Unidentified criminals killed a battery-run auto-rickshaw van driver and took away his vehicle in Dhanbari upazila of the district early yesterday.

The upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) of Parbatipur in Dinajpur formed a three-member committee yesterday to investigate the issuance of transfer certificates (TC) to 18 students of different classes at Jamirhaat High School in the upazila allegedly for not attending the school’s annual picnic.

In face of obstruction by illegal occupants, an eviction drive to remove illegal structures from railway land in Saidpur municipality was suspended on Tuesday.

People from all walks of life, including Language Movement veterans, freedom fighters, journalists and cultural activists, formed a human chain yesterday, protesting the ongoing construction work of the district central Shaheed Minar, changing it from its original location.

It was hard for any ordinary farmer to see the prospect of an uncommon vegetable in haor region where cultivation of any crops other than paddy is somewhat unlikely.

A female worker of a ready-made garment factory in Savar’s Ashuliya is allegedly raped by a local youth.

An environmental organisation in Cox’s Bazar submits a memorandum addressed to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, calling upon the authorities concerned of the government to take prompt measure to save Saint Martin’s island from pollution originating from tourism.

The authorities of Varendra University suspend three students on charge of raping a female student of Rajshahi University.

Bangladesh Road Transport Workers’ Federation threatens to file lawsuits against road safety crusader Ilias Kanchan across the country.

BNP lawmaker Harunur Rashid in the parliament demands that the government amend the University Ordinance 1973 to force the four leading public universities to accept uniform admission test.

The 312 Bangladeshis returning from the Chinese city of Wuhan can go home on Saturday upon completion of a 14-day quarantine in Ashkona Hajj Camp, Health Minister Zahid Maleque says.

Police arrest 16 youths on charge of gambling online on various sports in the Chattogram’s Riazuddin Bazar area.

Bangla Academy, Swadhinata and Ekushey Padak winning veteran poet Nirmalendu Goon is hospitalised last night with pneumonia and respiratory complications.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina changes the portfolios of three ministers to reshuffle her cabinet for a third time.

Saudi Arabia has sent back 183 more Bangladeshi migrant workers, including 20 women, according to Brac Migration Programme.