A stone-laden bulkhead capsized at the outer anchorage of Chattogram port this morning.

Bepar Sharief, a Bangladeshi expatriate in Singapore, learnt cooking from his mother in Bangladesh and now runs a successful briyani stall in Singapore.

Sabrina Sobhan, wife of Bashundhara Group Managing director Sayem Sobhan Anvir, along with seven members of their family left the country through a chartered flight this evening.

India has done its best to supply Covid-19 vaccines to its neighbours, said Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Kumar Doraiswami, at a webinar today.

India has thanked Bangladesh for its offer of medical supplies in the days of crisis and wished the India-Bangladesh friendship will overcome the pandemic together.

The Supreme Court today upheld a High Court order that asked the government to stop the operations of Maizea Advance Agro Refinery (MAAR) Limited, a dry starch powder producing company, for polluting environment at Shahpur area in Habiganj’s Madhabpur upazila.

The religious affairs ministry has come to know that a fraudulent group is taking money from people to include them as hajj aspirants this year.

Ensuring long-term cash assistance for low-income people should be seen as a strategic objective of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) during the preparation of the next national budget, said the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD).

Police have registered an abetting suicide case against Bashundhara Group managing director after recovery of a young woman’s body from a Gulshan flat as primarily they think there was instigation behind the suspected suicide.

Bangladesh Islami Front has urged the government to ban Hefajat-e-Islam and Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis for their alleged involvement in anti-state activities across the country.

The UN General Assembly has unanimously adopted a historic resolution on Global Drowning Prevention introduced by Bangladesh. The UN also declared July 25 as "UN Day for Drowning Prevention" to promote awareness, encourage national action, share best practices, and key solutions to drowning.

Police recovered the body of a man from a construction site in Sharankhola upazila of Bagerhat this morning.

The Supreme Court has directed United Hospital authorities today to pay -- as initial payment -- Tk 25 lakh each to the families of four victims who were killed in a fire at the hospital’s isolation unit on May 27 last year.

Bangladeshi workers in the readymade garments sector suffered a 35 per cent pay cut during the lockdown for the ongoing pandemic last year, according to a new study.

Two people were arrested on charges of raping a teenager in Ramu upazila of Cox’s Bazar on April 26.

Matiur Rahman, first President of Japan-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JBCCI), will receive “the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette.”

Considering the Covid-19 situation, the Dhaka University authorities rescheduled the honours first year admission test for 2020-21 academic session. The admission test of “Cha” unit will be held on July 31.

Akram Hossain, General Secretary of Sadharon Chhatra Odhikar Songrokkhon Parishad's Dhaka University unit, has been placed on a two-day remand, hours after he was arrested from Dhaka airport area today.

Bangladesh has offered to dispatch, on emergency basis, medicines and medical equipment in view of the rapidly deteriorating coronavirus situation in India.

Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir today failed to secure anticipatory bail from the High Court in a case filed over the death of a college student at a flat in Dhaka's Gulshan area on April 26.