Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has said that BNP drafted the recent statement of 42 eminent citizens on the Election Commission (EC).

A Dhaka court today placed 11 people on one-day remands each in connection with a case filed for vandalism during yesterday’s written test of the Bangladesh Bar Council enrollment exam.

Bangladesh Air Force personnel rescued four students after they lost way while trekking a remote hilly area in Cox’s Bazar and sought help through 999 National Emergency Helpline.

A Dhaka court today sentenced Col (retd) Shahid Uddin Chowdhury to nine years in jail in a tax evasion case.

Two motorcyclists were killed and one other person was injured as a bus hit their motorcycle on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Sylhet’s Bishwanath upazila this afternoon.

Killing of Bangladeshis by Indian Border Security Force (BSF), smuggling of drugs and illegal arms into the country from India, illegal trespassing by Indian nationals including BSF members are among key issues to be discussed in the upcoming director general level conference between border forces of the two countries.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says process is on to purchase ultra-modern and high-performance fighter planes for Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) as part of the government’s move to implement the “Forces Goal-2030”.

A case has been filed against Nurul Haque Nur, former vice-president of Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu), with a Brahmanbaria court for making “derogatory remarks” on the government and several government institutions during a Facebook live session.

Election Commissioner Brigadier General (retd) Shahadat Hossain Chowdhury has said the allegations of corruption and other misconducts brought against the Election Commission by 42 distinguished citizens are “baseless.”

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained two hundi traders with USD 5,00,000 from Sharsha upazila in Jashore today.

When Ayub Ali, 55, a COVID patient, thought of returning to work after getting discharged from hospital, he realized that he could not walk even small distances without his heart rate increasing. He had to be readmitted to hospital. Ayub has a family history of heart disease, but did not have a pre-existing condition. He had borderline diabetes and hypertension.

A Dhaka court today sentenced two persons, including the mother, to death for killing six-year-old Khandaker Samiul Azim Wafi in June 2010.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque has said the economic situation of the country is good now as the coronavirus situation is under control.

A policeman died as he lost control over his motorbike in Patuakhali’s Baufal upazila last night.

A housewife was killed allegedly by her dowry greedy husband in Rangpur’s Mithapukur upazila on Friday night.

Only 38 brick kilns out of 144 in Lalmonirhat and Kurigram have legal approval from the Department of Environment (DoE). These 106 brick kilns have been operating illegally for years. The topsoil of the farmlands is being ruined for manufacturing bricks in the kilns.

Volunteers came to the rescue of char residents in Char Rajibpur and Roumari upazilas of Kurigram by building bamboo walk bridges on drying shallow channels of the Brahmaputra river.

Expatriates Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad says his ministry will take steps so that outbound migrant workers get coronavirus vaccine on a priority basis.

A seven-year-old boy was found dead at a 14-storey building in Mirpur-10 today, two days after he went missing from Dhaka’s Mirpur-6 area from near his house.

Saying that internal dispute in Gonoforum has been settled, the party’s President Dr Kamal Hossain today said there is no problem in the party at present.