A Bangladeshi construction worker was crushed to death while his colleague escaped with minor injuries after they were pinned under a slab of piling concrete at Simpang Ampat today.

A college student was killed and another was injured when a truck hit their motorcycle in Dhaka’s Jatrabari area this morning.

Stressing the importance of ensuring the universal, equitable, timely and affordable access to quality vaccines, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Covid-19 can never be controlled unless it is stopped everywhere.

At least six people were killed and five others injured when a truck hit a bus in Tangail’s Mirzapur upazila this morning.

The island of Bhasan Char has been teeming with activity as 1,642 Rohingyas reached the island which was readied up for their relocation from Cox's Bazar.

A section of Islamic clerics, mostly Hefajat-e-Islam leaders, have issued a “fatwa” (religious edict), saying that construction of idol or sculpture of any living being is forbidden in Islam.

A Tangail court on Wednesday rejected the bail petitions of former Tangail municipality mayor Shahidur Rahman Khan Mukti and sent him to jail after he surrendered before it in connection with a case for murdering valiant freedom fighter Faruk Ahmed.

A woman was killed allegedly by her drug addict husband for money in Joypurhat Sadar upazila early yesterday.

A woman, who was set on fire allegedly by her husband over family feud in Jashore’s Abhaynagar upazila on November 26, succumbed to her burn injuries on the way to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) early yesterday.

Farmer Shahidul Islam, from Dolua Dogasi village of Sadar upazila, was harvesting ripe Aman paddy in the field with labourers on Monday and his 9-year-old nephew Badal, a fourth grader, was also working with them.

The finance ministry today fixed the maximum limit of national savings certificates that people would be able to purchase individually and under joint names.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said the government is not relocating any Rohingya to Bhasan Char forcibly but that they are going there voluntarily.

A worker died after falling from a ship at a shipbreaking yard in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila this afternoon.

The Khulna district administration in several drives detained 155 people and fined 271 people a total of Tk 1,18,200 for not wearing masks and maintaining proper hygiene rules amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

The High Court has cleared the way for the Anti-Corruption Commission to question Deputy Attorney General Jannatul Ferdousi Rupa in connection with the allegation of corruption against her.

In the last ten months until October this year, at least 195 women and children were either raped, murdered or physically and verbally abused in Narayanganj.

A civil court in Rajshahi today ordered the government to bear the costs of a case in which an error was made in the Revisional Survey to determine the record of rights (khatian) of a farmer’s land.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Bangladesh cannot forget the atrocities committed by Pakistan in 1971.

Unidentified criminals hacked a youth to death in broad daylight at Dakkhin Jamshing area in Savar today.

The pace at which people access digital services in Bangladesh has picked up since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, giving rise to data management challenges in the post-Covid period, according to policy-based magazine WhiteBoard.