A Belarusian court today sentenced a journalist to six months in prison for divulging medical secrets, after she had contradicted official statements about the killing of a protester who the authorities suggested was drunk at the time.

Experts say that the relatively low hospitalisation and fatality rates in India suggest the coronavirus pandemic is approaching its next phase - largely manageable local outbreaks.

Two workers went missing today as a stone-laden vessel sank in the Karnaphuli River at Kalarpole in Patiya upazila under Chattogram.

The High Court today expressed utmost dissatisfaction and disappointment with the Anti-Corruption Commission for the long delay in completing investigations in the cases over BASIC Bank loan scams.

FBI Director Chris Wray is set to testify for the first time since the deadly Jan 6 riot at the US Capitol, with lawmakers likely to press him on whether the bureau adequately communicated with other law enforcement agencies about the potential for violence that day.

The priority of the government in this Covid-19 pandemic is to ensure food and shelter for people alongside ensuring vaccine, said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina while approving the revised Annual Development Programme for 2020-21 fiscal during the National Economic Council meeting today.

The National Economic Council (NEC) today approved Tk 197,643 crore revised Annual Development Programme for the current fiscal year, downsizing the original ADP size of Tk 2,05,145 crore.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) arrested two people from Cox's Bazar for their alleged involvement in land acquisition forgery this evening.

Three members of Cox's Bazar District Police were arrested today in a case filed for robbing Tk3 lakh from a woman at gunpoint in Cox's Bazar city yesterday.

Theatre activist Lily Chowdhury, wife of martyred intellectual Munier Chowdhury, was laid to rest at Dhaka’s Banani graveyard this afternoon.

Customs Intelligence has pressed charges against Apan Jewellers owner Dildar Ahmed Selim in a money laundering case.

The High Court today directed Department of Environment (DoE) to take appropriate legal action against 30 washing plants in Dhaka’s Keraniganj for polluting water of the Buriganga river.

Police yesterday recovered a charred body from a mahogany garden at Dariapur village in Magura’s Sadar upazila.

Road Transport and Highway Division today formed a four-member probe committee to identify the reason behind the collapse of an under-construction bridge in Sunamganj on Sunday and those responsible for it.

Iraq received its first 50,000 doses of the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine donated by China as the country is struggling to cope with a new surge of the disease.

Data from Britain’s vaccine rollout on the effectiveness of the AstraZeneca/Oxford University COVID-19 shot in older people should help other countries reassess their use of it, the head of the university’s vaccine research group said on Tuesday.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Housing and Public Works Ministry today recommended planning a satellite city adjacent to the capital.

A thana level leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League was hacked to death in Singair upazila of Manikganj.

Bangabandhu’s dynamism and farsightedness shaped the foreign policy visions of Bangladesh, said eminent speakers at a webinar as part of the celebration of Mujib Year.

Seven 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).