A total of 221 people are killed in road crashes across the country during the 12 days of Eid season, a passenger welfare body says.

Centred nearly 340km south of Veraval in Gujarat on the East Central Arabian Sea, cyclonic storm ‘Vayu’ has intensified into a “very severe” storm and is most likely to make a landfall on the state’s coast between Porbandar and Mahuva around Veraval and Diu region with a wind speed 110-120kmph gusting to 135kmph during the early morning of June 13.

Nine including five children have been hurt after a part of the ceiling plaster broke off and fell upon them in Noakhali General Hospital.

The aggrieved leaders and activists of the recently-dissolved Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) central committee have postponed their agitation programme protesting age limit in the party charter.

Bangladesh urges the international community to ramp up pressure on Myanmar so that it creates a conducive environment for Rohingya repatriation.

Hong Kong police have fired rubber bullets and tear gas at demonstrators who threw plastic bottles as protests against an extradition bill that would allow people to be sent to mainland China for trial turned to violent chaos.

US President Donald Trump reveals that Mexico agreed to take stronger legal action to halt Central American migrants if its initial efforts to stem the flow don't show results in 45 days.

A rescue boat carrying around 75 migrants, most of them from Bangladesh, has been stuck off Tunisia for 12 days after authorities refused to let them disembark, the Red Crescent said yesterday.

BNP MP Rumeen Farhana (Reserved Seat-50) in the parliament criticises the government’s role for not granting bail to its imprisoned Chairperson Khaleda Zia.

Hello dear readers! How was your day? Here are the news headlineson June 11, 2019.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed filed a case against four officials of the state-run Bangladesh Development Bank Ltd for allegedly embezzling around Tk 25 crore from the bank.

State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Md Zakir Hossen has told the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) that the government is considering introduction of one-shift at primary schools across the country by increasing sufficient classrooms.

BNP lawmaker Harunur Rashid today demanded resignation of the religious affairs minister for what he said creating confusion in people’s mind over sighting the Shawwal moon this year.

Russian police have dropped drugs charges against journalist Ivan Golunov, a rare U-turn by the authorities in the face of anger from his supporters who alleged he was framed for his reporting and threatened to stage a mass protest in Moscow.

The European Union wants Bangladesh to address the issues of inclusiveness of the political process, space for civil society and freedom of expression and media.

A Dhaka tribunal sentences two people including a woman to life term imprisonment in a case filed for trafficking two newborn babies in Dhaka in 2006.

Awami League Lawmaker Golam Faruk Khandakar Prince calls upon the government to bring educational institutions under monthly payment order on the basis of the lawmakers’ recommendations instead of the MPO policy.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claims to have arrested a member of banned militant outfit Ansar Al Islam from Dhaka’s Badda area.

The government has decided to purchases additional 2.5 lakh metric tonnes of Boro paddy at Tk 26 per kilogramme in this current season.

The wreckage of an Indian Air Force transport aircraft, which went missing eight days ago with 13 people on board, is found in Arunachal Pradesh, official sources said.