The government today approved a Tk 4,123 crore project for constructing 30,000 homes for insolvent valiant freedom fighters and family members of the martyred in a bid to uplift their socioeconomic condition.

A Chapainawabganj court today sentenced a man to life in prison for possessing illegal fire arms.

Twenty-six people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8 am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

AZM Anas, economic editor of The Financial Express, died of cardiac arrest this morning. He was 45.

All people will have to enter the Ekushey Boi Mela grounds in Dhaka following health guidelines due to the Covid-19 situation, police said today.

Sri Lanka's government said Tuesday it would take time to consider a proposed ban on the wearing of burqas, which a top security official called a sign of religious extremism.

Bangladesh is the highest recipient of India-made Covid-19 vaccines among a group of 70 countries.

Police today barred activists of left-leaning student bodies, who were going to lay siege to the law ministry to press home their demands of scrapping the Digital Security Act.

Asia Lounge, a Bangladeshi-owned upscale eatery, began its journey on March 9 in Turkey’s Istanbul city.

Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) authorities today formed a three-member medical board for medical check-up of cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore.

As some European countries suspended the use of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines due to blood clot scare, India’s apex committee on post-vaccination adverse effects will examine later this week the data related to Covishield and Covaxin vaccines.

The High Court today exonerated Grameen Telecom Chairman and Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus and its Managing Director Md Ashraful Hasan from personal appearance before the court in connection with a contempt of court rule.

The UN food agency said on Tuesday rising food and fuel prices in Myanmar since a February 1 military coup risk undermining the ability of poor families to feed themselves.

A man was killed when police opened fire during a clash with fishermen in Meghna river of Matlab North upazila of Chandpur.

Sheikh Mohammad Fayiz Ullah Shipon has been nominated as the Jatiya Party candidate to contest Lakshmipur-2 by-election.

Three siblings were killed as a fire broke out at their house in Chakaria upazila of Cox’s Bazar in the early hours of today.

Former UN secretary-general Ban-ki Moon has said Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was a champion of human rights not only within Bangladesh but across the globe.

A Hong Kong scientist has developed a method to use machine learning and artificial intelligence to scan retinas of children as young as six to detect early autism or the risk of autism and hopes to develop a commercial product this year.

India has indicated that it disfavours economic sanctions against Myanmar in the wake of military coup there, saying “people on the ground should not suffer.”

A Dhaka court will decide on April 1 whether to accept the charges brought against 10 people, including Khandaker Mohtesam Hossain Babar, brother of former minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, in the Tk 2,000 crore money laundering case.