Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader informs parliament that around 25,526 people were killed and 19,763 others were injured in road accidents in the last 10 years since 2009.

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mohammad Javed Patwary directs all concerned police officials to take proper legal action against former officer-in-charge (OC) of Sonagazi Police Station Moazzem Hossain.

Rights activists at a discussion demand the government to immediately identify and punish the abductors of Kalpana Chakma to unveil the long-standing mystery over disappearance of the ethnic minority community leader.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in parliament says the public perception that many staff of the Anti-Corruption Commission are involved in corruption is not completely false.

The life expectancy of women is higher than men in Bangladesh, according to a new government report. “The gain in the life expectancy is higher among the females (73.8 years) than that among the males (70.8 years),” says the report on “Bangladesh Sample Vital Statistics 2018”.

Climate change poses a threat to peace in countries around the world in the coming decade, according to an annual peace index released on Wednesday that factored in the risk from global warming for the first time.

Veteran actor Bobita celebrates her Eid with a bunch of underprivileged children of Dhaka by arranging a get-together at her place for them to enjoy the Eid festivities.

India has unveiled a spacecraft which is expected to take off for the moon next month, making the country only the fourth to achieve the feat.

Bangladesh is one of the least peaceful countries in the world as it continued its downward slip in terms of peace by dropping down nine spots in the Global Peace Index (GPI) 2019.

Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) is going to use social media platforms such as Facebook and Viber, among others, to receive complaints from the customers, says its chairman at a public hearing.

At least 31 children have died in northern India in the last 10 days from a deadly brain disease believed linked to a toxic substance found in litchi fruit, health officials say.

Dear readers, here are the news headlines so far on June 12, 2019.

Imprisoned BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has attended dental treatment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU).

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said action will be taken against Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Mizanur Rahman for allegedly giving bribe to an Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) official.

Bangladesh has urged the UN member states to play an effective role for a permanent solution to the Rohingya crisis and promote an effective migration governance to ensure safe and orderly migration.

A human chain has been formed protesting the acid attack on pilot Parvez Sanjari and demanding exemplary punishment of the perpetrators.

India announces that the aircraft carrying Prime Minister Narendra Modi would not fly over Pakistan on its way to Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan, for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit starting tomorrow.

A CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver is killed as his vehicle collides head-on with a bus in Mohammadpur Beribadh area of Dhaka.

An estimated three lakh people are set to be pulled back to safer places as very severe cyclone 'Vayu' today headed towards Gujarat on the coast of Arabian Sea and strike it tomorrow.

Indian Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb is keen to materialise a waterway project that will connect Gumati in the state with Meghna of Bangladesh with the potentiality of changing the state’s transport system, a senior Tripura official says.