Twenty-eight people have died with Covid-19 infection in 24 hours (till 8am today) across the country.

Seven lakh out of the total 50 lakh OMS cards, distributed during the closure declared by the government due to Covid-19 pandemic, were found to be fake, Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder admitted to a parliamentary body.

Prof Abdul Bari resigned from the post of registrar, Rajshahi University, today.

This year saw more incidents of rape and violence against women than previous years despite the Covid-19 pandemic, rights body Ain O Salish Kendra said today.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today reiterated that the government will not allow reopening of educational institutions unless the COVID-19 situation improves -- for the sake of students’ and teachers' safety.

Awami League’s Faridpur town unit organising secretary Jafar Iqbal Haroon Mandal was shown arrested today in a Tk 2,000 crore money laundering case.

Road communication of Pabna with 22 districts has been suspended since this morning following an indefinite transport strike.

Two operatives of the banned group Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islam Bangladesh (Huji) were arrested with a huge amount of books on Jihadi philosophy in Rajshahi city yesterday.

Speakers at a discussion urged for necessary steps to protect all remaining open waterbodies and reclaim lost ones in Sylhet city area for a better and sustainable environment-friendly future.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina donated Tk 10 crore to Dhaka Shishu Hospital to provide free treatment to the children who are born with cardio diseases.

Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee (Committee for Realisation of Bangladesh Liberation War Ideals and Trial of War criminals) distributed warm

The construction work of 250-bed hospital in Pirojpur town is going on in full swing. A total of 30 percent work of the construction has been completed so far.

In a display of disregard for human health and the environment, for the past couple of years, the authorities of Pangsha municipality in Rajbari have been dumping garbage from the town onto a spot right beside the Rajbari-Kushtia regional highway.

Topsoil of croplands are being used for manufacturing bricks in different brick kilns of Tangail’s Basail upazila, damaging the fertility of lands and also destroying local environment.

61pc of project funds misappropriated: TIB report

Returning officer of Savar municipality Md Munir Hossain Khan today asked local journalists to avoid writing all kinds of negative news regarding upcoming Savar municipality elections.

Police arrested three Jubo League activists in Nagarkanda upazila of Faridpur in a case filed against them for assaulting a medical officer, nurse and an office assistant during the ongoing measles-rubella vaccination programme.

Amid the coronavirus situation, the government will hand over new books -- free of cost -- to about 4.5 crore students at the beginning of the new year.

With an aim to reach policing at the peoples’ doorstep and lessen the gap between plaintiff and police, Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) today introduced a Short Message Service (SMS) based complaint and response management system.

Prof Lutfar Kader Lenin, joint director of Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery, died with Covid-19 today.