A woman went missing after a trawler capsized in Meghna river under Gazaria upazila of Munshiganj district this morning.

Abul Kashem, 45, used to drive buses owned by others for 25 years and dreamed of one day owning his own bus.

Accumulated gas was behind the massive explosion at the ground floor of a three-storey building in the capital’s Moghbazar on Sunday evening, said officials and experts.

Leaky gas pipes were the fourth most common cause of fires reported last year, according to Fire Service and Civil Defence data.

Bangladesh reported 8,364 new Covid-19 infections in 24 hours ending at 8:00am yesterday, a record high number of daily infections since the confirmation of its first cases on March 8 last year.

The government plans to go all out to make sure that people stay at home during the “strict lockdown” to be enforced from Thursday to stem the surge in Covid deaths and infections.

A Dhaka court has ordered a freeze on eight bank accounts of former Dhaka South City Corporation mayor Sayeed Khokon and his three family members as part of an investigation into an allegation of amassing illegal wealth.

The High Court yesterday granted six months’ ad-interim bail to a Manik Hawlader, an innocent man who had been serving the jail sentence handed down to actual convict Manik Miah, of Shariatpur’s Bhedarganj upazila, in connection with a drug related case.

A court in Dinajpur yesterday sent a youth to jail for raping a visually impaired woman, while three others were arrested in Gazipur and Noakhali in rape cases.

The people of Bangladesh would not accept any political settlement short of independence, said Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani.

Deaths of rare and endangered species of wildlife under the wheels of vehicles and on train tracks are rampant in Moulvibazar’s Lawachhara forest.

Good news for Bangladeshi migrant workers!

Another 83 Bangladeshis were rescued in the Mediterranean off the Tunisian coast on Sunday when they were trying to go to Europe across the sea illegally.

The average life expectancy of Bangladeshis has increased to 72.8 years in 2020 during the outbreak of coronavirus from 72.6 years in 2019, according to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).

Tofail Ahmed, senior lawmaker from the ruling Awami League, and Kazi Firoz Rashid, an MP from the Jatiya Party, expressed frustration in parliament yesterday, saying that bureaucrats were being given various important responsibilities by ignoring the politicians.

Some 200 employees of Grameenphone have shown interest to accept the voluntary retirement scheme (VRS) offered by the country's biggest mobile phone operator as of today.

A man who suffered severe injuries in the huge explosion on the ground floor of a three-storey building in the capital's Moghbazar last evening, died early today.

LGRD ministry today temporarily suspended Md Shahin Hawlader, chairman of no-6 Kanakdia union parishad under Baufol upazila in Patuakhali for marrying and later divorcing an underage girl by misusing his power while conducting a local arbitration.

The government has decided not to issue "movement pass" during the seven-day “complete lockdown” which will be enforced across the country from July 1.

Another violent explosion, innocent lives lost once more -- who will take responsibility?