Police today arrested four members of an abduction gang on charge of kidnapping a bank official and extorting Tk two lakh in Chattogram city’s Rahattarpul area.

Dhaka University’s Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education) Prof Dr ASM Maksud Kamal has tested positive for coronavirus, one month after taking the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine.

A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) raided three factories in Dhaka’s Keraniganj area and destroyed fake and substandard cosmetics worth Tk 10 lakh.

After spending four months behind bars for a crime he didn't commit, a day labourer has been released from Jashore Central Jail.

At least two people were killed and five others injured as a passenger bus collided with an easy bike at Abhaynagar upazila of Jashore today.

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

Police today arrested a man in a case filed for attempting to rape a 10th grader in Kalapara upazila of Patuakhali.

In the German town of Dessau, one of the sites of the Bauhaus art school, an institute was set up in 1921 to mass-produce vaccines that later helped strengthen the German Democratic Republic. Exactly 100 years later, the site is gearing up to be a one-stop shop to produce COVID-19 vaccines for Germany’s pandemic response.

A man who has admitted to taking part in the 2017 murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia gave his first detailed account of the plot on Thursday, telling a court how the anti-corruption journalist was tracked and killed.

Gunmen in Nigeria’s northwestern Kaduna state kidnapped a number of students from a college late on Thursday, a police spokesman and a state government official said today.

A group of women from different organisations brought out a procession earlier today for democracy in Dhaka.

Onion prices shot up in Dhaka markets over the last one week as supply of imported bulbs and early harvested varieties declined.

A 16-year-old was hacked to death at Halishahar area of Chattogram city last night.

Canada on Thursday said the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine is safe after Denmark and Norway temporarily suspended its use amid reports that blood clots had formed in some who had received the shot.

Netflix Inc is testing a feature that asks viewers to verify they share a household with the account holder, the company said on Thursday, a move that could lead to a clampdown on sharing of passwords.

Two people were killed and one other injured in a road accident at Kamalapur village in Panchagarh Sadar upazila early today as a tractor carrying an excavator fell into a roadside ditch.

Myanmar junta crackdown on the civilians may comprise crimes against humanity, said UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, calling for a united global response in the country’s hour of need.

At least eight people were injured in a clash between two factions of Bangladesh Chhatra League in Bogura yesterday night.

A ruling party man was critically injured after he was stabbed by his rival men during an intra-party clash between two Awami league groups at the AL party office in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila yesterday night.

The forest department has recovered a dead dolphin from a shoal of Bhola River adjacent to the Sundarbans.