Radwan Mujib Siddiq, trustee of the Centre for Research and Information (CRI), has pointed out people’s reluctance in wearing masks and maintaining physical distancing, and encouraged all to maintain those mandatory rules reminding them that the Covid-19 pandemic is not over yet.

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested four men in Gazipur city earlier today, while they were about to commit a robbery.

The country’s foreign exchange reserves today hit a new record of $43.17 billion thanks to the upward trend of remittance and lower import payments, Bangladesh Bank data showed.

The 11th parliament will go into its 11th session on January 18 amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.

Two journalists of a private TV news channel were allegedly beaten up by miscreants while they were collecting information on a report covering the irregularities in a state-run rehabilitation project in Bogura Sadar upazila.

A parliamentary body today recommended to temporarily suspend air communications with the UK to prevent spread of a new strain of Covid-19.

Four public engineering universities in principle decided to form a cluster to hold uniform admission test but difference of opinion surfaced over forming admission committee and on exam centre.

The country's stock index has touched 5,400 points at the end of trading in the year 2020 after around 18 months.

Twenty-two people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8:00am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Gyantapas Abdur Razzaq Foundation is going to organise the 2nd essay competition for the purpose of encouraging research, writing and thinking at all levels of education, according to a press release.

Department of Environment (DoE), Chattogram region, has fined Toma Construction and Company Limited for razing almost 22 million cubic feet of hills from reserve forest area at Lohagara upazila of Chattogram.

A Supreme Court lawyer today filed a writ petition with the High Court, seeking its directives on the authorities concerned to stop operations of mobile phone apps -- Bigo Live, Tiktok video and Likee -- in order to “protect youths from social degradation”.

A Dhaka court today directed the deputy inspector general of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to investigate the case filed against Dhaka South City Corporation’s former mayor Sayeed Khokon and six others over embezzlement of Tk 34.89 crore.

The High Court today issued an injunction restraining electronic, print and social media, including Facebook and YouTube, from broadcasting and publishing statements, interviews and conversations of all fugitive convicts and under trial accused, including Proshanta Kumar Halder, till further order.

Mentioning that no security threat has emerged in the country centring New Year celebration tomorrow (December 31) night, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal today said that security forces are ready to face any situation that may arise.

The parliamentary watchdog on health and family welfare ministry that remained invisible for the last nine months, is finally going to hold a meeting this afternoon.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the government is developing every force to protect the country’s independence and sovereignty.

Anti-Corruption Commission's lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan today submitted a petition to the High Court for issuing a contempt of court rule against Ekattor TV, a private television channel, for connecting Proshanta Kumar Halder, better known as PK Halder, as a guest to a live talk show on December 28.

Four people were killed and four others injured as the gas cylinder of a CNG-driven microbus exploded after the vehicle hit a goods-laden truck on Sylhet-Zakiganj regional road in Sylhet’s Golapganj upazila early today.

A man was killed and four others were injured as a freight train hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at a rail crossing in Cumilla this morning.