Another 161 passengers from the United Kingdom landed in Bangladesh today amid the spread of a new strain of Covid-19 in that country.

French Ambassador to Bangladesh Jean-Marin Schuh and Project Officer-in-charge of the water and sanitation sector of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) in Dhaka Fanny Nesen have visited the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) headquarters.

The High Court today stayed for six months the education ministry's decision to remove the name of late president Ziaur Rahman from the titles of two high schools in Bogura.

Three people including two teenage boys were killed as a truck hit a motorcycle they were on in Ghatail upazila of Tangail this morning.

A bus helper has been arrested in a case filed over attempt to rape in a moving bus in Sunamganj.

A journalist was assaulted, allegedly by a presiding officer, when he went to cover municipality elections at a centre in Dhamrai today.

An employee of a non-government organisation at Benapole land port was found dead early today.

A Dhaka court today deferred the charge framing hearing of a case filed against Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee and five others -- on charges of embezzling Tk 1.27 crore from Islamic Foundation's Zakat Fund -- to January 11.

Voting in 24 municipalities started this morning, using electronic voting machines (EVMs).

The second wave of Covid 19 hits the country but there is no progress in dealing with coronavirus patients at the hospital in the district.

Farmers in different upazilas of the district are passing busy time in planting Boro saplings amid the ongoing cold and foggy weather across the region.

Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA) recently served legal notices on 20 different officials of the government, urging them to save the environment by putting a stop to illegal extraction of sand in four upazilas of Habiganj.

Tribunal judges, prosecutors and police officers of cases filed under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act are not abiding by its provision of explaining reasons for not completing trials within 180 days, the Supreme Court administration said in a notification today.

A man was killed this evening in an altercation over sharing the money of a shrine in Brahmanbaria’s Ashuganj upazila.

Eleven noted citizens in a joint statement have said Kushtia Superintendent of Police SM Tanvir Arafat’s recent statement, about the vandalism of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and revolutionary Bagha Jatin’s statues, was in favour of the spirit of the Liberation War.

Department of Environment (DoE) (Chattogram region) fined two people Tk 12 lakh in connection with filling up a 30,000 square feet canal in Brahmanbaria’s Sarail upazila today.

Bangladesh Bank has directed banks to give out loans and credit cards to IT freelancers in the country in order to promote the freelancing sector.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today inaugurated the brand new Dash 8-400 aircraft of Biman Bangladesh Airlines and expresssed her desire to establish strong regional connectivity by cashing in on the country’s geographical location in Southeast Asia.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines today announced resumption of regular flights on the Dhaka-Muscat-Dhaka route from December 29 following the Oman government’s lifting of the ban on operating international flights to and from Muscat.

Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed asked the force members to serve people with love and dedication so that children feel proud of their police parents.