State Minister for Civil Aviation M Mahbub Ali today said that work is underway to operate flights 24 hours a day at all airports in the country.

Four bus terminals will be constructed around the capital, mayors of Dhaka city corporations said today.

The government has been training workers to send skilled Bangladeshi workforce to a post-coronavirus global labour market, Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad said today.

Separate health screenings are being arranged for passengers from the United Kingdom at the three international airports in the country, Air Vice Marshal M Mafidur Rahman, chairman, Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB), said today.

Pan Pacific Sonargaon Dhaka has organised a line-up of exciting programs to rejoice the end of the year 2020 celebration of Christmas and New Year by maintaining proper Health and Safety Protocol along with maintaining social distancing measures.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today stayed for eight weeks a High Court verdict that acquitted three convicted accused who were sentenced to death by the trial court concerned in a case filed for abducting and killing a six-year-old in Cox’s Bazar in 2013.

A group of Dhaka University students today demanded ensuring residential facilities for them before exams of the final year and masters from December 26 during the coronavirus pandemic.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu today lauded Bangladesh’s progress, saying that the country has become a “rising star” in South Asia under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

CID has appealed to the court to freeze all bank accounts and property of independent lawmaker Mohammad Shahid Islam Papul and his family members.

Over 100 Saudi-bound Bangladeshi expatriate workers were forced to return from Abu Dhabi airport last night following the sudden decision of the Saudi government to suspend all international flights, including to and from Dhaka.

Junayed Babunagari, amir of Hefajat-e-Islam, said Shah Ahmad Shafi, former amir of the Islamist group, died a natural death, calling the allegation of “killing” Shafi “politically motivated”.

A Bangladeshi national was shot dead by India's Border Security Force (BSF) along the Gubrakura border under Haluaghat upazila of Mymensingh last night.

Twenty-nine Bangladeshi nationals, who were released from Malir and Karachi jails of Pakistan, are set to return to the country today.

Commuters of Sylhet continued to suffer as road communication of the division with the rest of the country remained suspended for the second consecutive day today.

At least two people were killed and 20 others injured in a clash between two groups of villagers in Habiganj’s Baniachang upazila.

A mobile court in a drive demolished an illegal charcoal factory in Mirzapur upazila yesterday.

Women from around 11 thousand families with limited resources -- in chars or river islands of Kurigram’s Chilmari upazila -- are learning to ensure balanced nutrition for their families by growing fruits and vegetables around their houses for their own consumption.

Irrigation in 15,000 hectares of land in the upcoming Boro season seems uncertain as various parts of the canal under the Ashuganj-Palash Agro Irrigation Project have been filled with sand to upgrade the highway from Ashuganj river port to Akhaura land port into four lanes.

A Cumilla court today sent a teenager to jail for allegedly raping a schoolgirl after kidnapping her in the district’s Brahmanpara upazila.

Police have recovered the body of a teen domestic help from the residence of Inspector Ashikuzzaman, in-charge of Kolatia Police Outpost in Keraniganj.