Thanks to slow progress in construction work, people of Pirojpur will not see their much-awaited bridge on the Kacha river inaugurated this month.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today stayed a High Court verdict that in 2017 had declared illegal the annual readmission and session fees charged by English-medium schools.

A mobile court today fined Fu-Wang Foods Ltd, a food manufacturing company, Tk 1 lakh in Gazipur for producing goods in an unhygienic environment.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has expressed his optimism that Bangladesh’s expectations from India will be met as the two countries maintain a strong and a very friendly relationship.

The fourth phase elections to municipalities will be held on February 14, the Election Commission announced this evening.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained an alleged Indian cattle smuggler from Bangladeshi territory on Dantbhanga border in Roumari upazila of Kurigram today.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines today announced to resume its flights to Saudi Arabia from January 6.

Eminent novelist Rabeya Khatun passed away this evening.

Stressing the need for becoming self-sufficient in food production, Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque today warned that it would be difficult to procure food even with money available if there is a food crisis or famine due to the global Covid-19 pandemic.

Lawmakers from treasury and opposition bench and representatives of various organisations today called for setting an example by enforcing the death penalty for rape.

A Dhaka court today again asked the ACC to submit by February 16 the probe reports of two graft cases filed against Regent Hospital Chairman Mohammad Shahed and several others over misappropriating Tk 4.22 crore from two banks.

Seven people, including a newborn, were killed when a bus hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Tarakanda upazila of Mymensingh today.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked police personnel to stop cybercrimes alongside money laundering, human trafficking, terrorism, drug abuse, gang activities and repression of women and children.

The High Court today granted bail to a union parishad member in a case filed for gang-rape and torture of a woman in Noakhali’s Begumganj in September last year.

At least 464 people were killed and 513 were injured in 402 road accidents throughout the country in December last year, according to a report of Road Safety Foundation.

Police have rescued a school student -- who was abducted from Dharla River shoal area of Banagram village under Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila on December 16 -- from a house in Chattogram last night.

Four mega projects including Padma Bridge and Dhaka's metro rail will open to public by June next year, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said.

An elderly man died after being hit by a train in Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar area this morning.

A huge fire that broke out at Konka Electronics factory in Narayanganj's Sonargaon area this morning is now under control.

A man’s body was recovered from the Buriganga river last night, four days after he went missing from Narayanganj Sadar.