A woman and her grandchild were killed and two other family members were injured after a truck hit their auto-rickshaw in Dhaka’s Rupnagar area this morning.

The High Court today set Wednesday (March 3) for delivering order on a bail petition for Cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore in connection with a case under Digital Security Act.

China used coronavirus prevention measures, intimidation and visa curbs to limit foreign reporting in 2020, ushering in a “rapid decline in media freedom,” the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) said on Monday.

AstraZeneca Plc has sold its 7.7 percent stake in Moderna Inc for more than $1 billion after the US biotechnology company’s shares soared on the back of its coronavirus vaccine breakthrough, The Times reported.

Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit has submitted a petition, seeking permission to interrogate two accused who are now on bail in the case filed against cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore and 10 others under the Digital Security Act.

Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi appeared at a court hearing via video conferencing on Monday, the first time her lawyers had seen her since she was detained in the Feb. 1 military coup.

In response to the killing of at least 18 protesters demonstrating against Myanmar’s military coup, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) on Sunday together with the UN chief, strongly condemned the “escalating violence” and called for an immediate end to the use of force.

A case have been filed against around 300 people over a series of clashes between the activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal and police in front of the National Press Club yesterday.

Activists of left-leaning student organisations, who were demonstrating in front of the Secretariat after they were barred from besieging the home ministry, ended their protest programme for today.

A Dhaka court today cleared Mohammad Erfan Salim, son of Awami League leader and lawmaker Haji Mohammad Salim, in a narcotics case as police did not find any evidence to prove the charges against him and prosecution did not seek further investigation.

Protesters marched in Myanmar on Monday in defiance of a crackdown by security forces that killed at least 18 people a day earlier, as calls grew for a more united international response after the worst violence since a coup one month ago.

Police have arrested a 45-year-old madrasa teacher for abducting and raping a 14-year-old in Lalmonirhat town.

A case was filed against BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman under the Digital Security Act for declaring late president Ziaur Rahman “the nation's father of Bangladeshi nationalism”.

Police in Bogura recovered the bodies of a woman and her infant daughter from a corn field in a remote shoal area on the Jamuna river.

A truck driver was killed when his vehicle plunged into the Padma river after he lost control while trying to drive onto a ferry at Manikganj’s Paturia terminal last night.

A helper and supervisor of a bus were handed over to police for attempting to rape a college student on board the bus in Nabiganj upazila of Habiganj.

Thai police used tear gas and water cannon against protesters marching on a military base in Bangkok to call for King Maha Vajiralongkorn to give up direct command of the army unit housed there.

Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has taken the initiative to revive operations of United Airways, a private airlines.

The day before he was killed, internet network engineer Nyi Nyi Aung Htet Naing had posted on Facebook about the increasingly violent military crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Myanmar.

President Abdul Hamid today asked members of the Public Service Commission (PSC) to take necessary steps to recruit class-III and IV employees through the competitive examinations under the PSC.